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NTT: As Gershwin-y as the trumpet sounds, the background texture makes me think more of Copland, so I'll put him in my basket. I could also see this being by Still, but part of me thinks it might be later than both of those. Bernstein, even? It's tricky.

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NTT: it certainly is beautiful, whatever the heck it is. Like Jeremy, I glommed onto the blues-y interval that rocks back and forth as one Gershwin uses (is it in Rhapsody in Blue?) but I think I’ll go French, early 20th century. I may get this from the gauzy impressionist feel overlaid with the jazziness. I’m pretty ignorant about any composer who wrote later than around 1597, so my only concrete guess is Milhaud, who I believe was a lover of American jazz.

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I wouldn’t say Maestro Will fell flat on his face with my NTT….I think a lot of the reasoning was good. Just a misinterpretation of the clue as referring to an opera composer rather than a symphonist. I’m sure Will’s known distaste for Bruckner didn’t help.

And turnabout is fair play, or whatever the phrase is. I don’t have much on this week’s NTT. I heard a bit of Gershwin in it but I don’t think this is him….

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