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Mar 9, 2023Liked by Tone Prose

So there's not a tune you go "bum bum bum ba-dum"? Poor Stephen.

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Mar 9, 2023Liked by Tone Prose

I am seeing Blue in a week and a half; hopefully I'll enjoy it more than you did. But 1 in 5 actually seems like a decent hit rate for new work.

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Mar 9, 2023Liked by Tone Prose

I’m surprised there’s that qualifier of “almost” in that NTT hint.

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Oof, Jeremy, this NTT...

Well, I'm guessing from the clue that this is probably an opera composer. Longtime followers of CGF will certainly be aware of the Verdi quartet and Puccini's "Crisantemi". This isn't (I don't THINK) either of them.

Strikes me as later 19th century harmonically, but it's awfully weird from a textural perspective, so maybe we're pushing into the 20th. I'm going to go in with some lesser-known Italians: Mascagni, Leoncavallo, and ... oh, to change it up, Rimsky-Korsakov.

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