The BBC Music Magazine PRIZE CROSSWORD NO. 337

The first correct solution of our crossword picked at random will win a copy of The Oxford Companion to Music. A runnerup will win Who Knew? Answers to Questions about Classical Music (see www.oup.co.uk). Send answers to: BBC Music Magazine, Crossword 337/Sept, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 4 Sept 2019 (solution in Dec 2019 issue). ACROSS

8 Get rid of sources of music

exciting new guitarists (6)

9 Hole I aim to repair, to produce

perfect fifth (8)

11 Piano expert crackpot rejected

with little hesitation (5)

13 A lot of piano time wasted – student finally anxious for things to happen (9)

14 Runs from odd recital involving debut of horn-player? That’s right (7)

17 Hurried to secure arrangement

of main Zimmer score (4,3)

19 Contributor to 30/31 is no

great violinist? (5)

20 Some family friend of Ravel (3)

21 Tenor and bass, suppressing

wordless sound, try for lift? (5)

23 Bird nut taking in latest from

whimsical Respighi (7)

24 Let Rake loose in opera (7)

26 Conductor in opera popular

(brought back twice) (9)

28 BBC recalled engaging artist,

an accordion player (5)

30/31 Like Elgar’s enigmatically

varied friends? (8,6)

DOWN

1 Contributor to 30/31 that danced in stable area (8)

2 Contributor to Façade and contributor to 30/31 (4)

3 Mostly strange contributor to 30/31 (4)

4 Sousa march defies simpler playing (6,7)

5 Contributor to 30/31’s irritability about start of really popular dance (10)

6 Ballet movement in Pavlova’s first story (4)

7/22 New bass interrupts one suffering alto, then bass gets rid of conductor (dedicatee of 30/31) (6,8)

10 Irish instrument unexpectedly appearing in Alpine line-ups (8,5) 12 Record company based in the Midlands (3)

15 Composer Davies resident in Treorchy (Welsh) (5)

16 Elgar cantata: vehicle to perform with a contralto (American) (10) 18 Word from Massenet about a French stage (5)

22 See 7 down

23 Pianist’s initial suggestion accepted by each choreographer (6)

25 Liqueur swallowed by Bartók, I recall (3)

27 Historic trombone, but dropped in fire (4)

28 Composer from Korea (not quite another Eastern country) (4)

29 Long opening of Handel captured by expert (4)