The BBC Music Magazine PRIZE CROSSWORD NO. 344
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 344/Mar, PO Box 501, Leicester, LE94 0AA to arrive by 19 Mar 2019 (solution in June 2020 issue).
ACROSS
1 Microphone in Great Hall that initially has power (5) 4 Puccini character either flat or natural? (9)
9 Ravel piece: beginning and end of tune arranged with a zing (7) 10 End of opera? Abrupt in securing end of opera (7)
11/12 A nightspot’s now animated in March (10,4)
14 En pointe, or to pointe, possibly (2,6)
15 String quartet has reduced information (5)
18/19 Criminal power active in March (5,8)
22 Popular genre starts to relax our cool kids (4)
24 March collapsed in broken dreams (10)
26 A variation for Tamino, in lively style (7)
27 Design idea for Butterfly? Golden couple encompassing a lot of distraction (7)
28 Composer not playing sources of earlier notes by earlier composer (9)
29 Edited, perhaps, deleting a bit of music – reached the finale (5)
DOWN
1 Popular genre’s second week in fashion (6)
2 Sang solid arrangement, moving smoothly from note to note (9)
3 Isn’t radio broadcast involving first of these established approaches? (10)
4 Manual dexterity in e.g. this piece of Liszt, possibly (7)
5 Limits of creativity seen in single opera by Marais (7)
6 Role for Estonian composer (4) 7 Record label has some opera today (5)
8 Nations represented by a chamber work? (8)
13 Sort out sloucher in singers and dancers (6,4)
16 Good people to secure star’s home (9)
17 Cat door’s swinging, sounding out of tune (8)
19 Dancer Duncan is more than half lovely (7)
20 Bagpipe music I associated with brother entering quiet church (7)
21 Noticed new arrangement of
EPS that is on display initially (6) 23 Feature of song from Dame Vera or later pop singer? (5)
25 French composer’s expression of surprise over note (4)