Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Know the score?

Email received:Actually, I live in Lithuania, not ...

2008-03-27T18:19:00.000Z

Email received:

Actually, I live in Lithuania, not Estonia.

One of my friends, Anatolijus Senderovas, had composed a piece involving the shofar, Shmaa Israel

http://www.mic.lt/en/classical/persons/works/senderovas/36?ref=%2Fen%2Fclassical%2Fpersons%2F41

It involves a shofar...you can listen to bits of it. After that it was easy to find it....

Doesn't mean I appreciate Elgar, though ;-)

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Email received from Paris:Actually, the question i...

2008-03-27T18:00:00.000Z

Email received from Paris:

Actually, the question is as much whether Elgar finds appeal beyond the UK (I love Falstaff and the end of the Dream is worthy of Brahms’s German Requiem) as much as how many who responded correctly are Jewish (disclosure: I am).

AL

Well, that didn't cause many problems did it?Inter...

2008-03-27T16:08:00.000Z

Well, that didn't cause many problems did it?

Interesting trivia ... of the first five readers who correctly identified Elgar's The Apostles one lives in England, one in Estonia, one in France (just) and two in the States. Which gives the lie to Elgar only appealing to the English.

More trivia, the first two correct answers came from current or former librarians on both sides of the Atlantic and two of the first three came from ladies, the eternal feminine clearly know their Elgar.

I was going to head the post Shofar so good but thought that would give the game away.

What a wonderful work The Apostles is. It is so different to the 'smells and bells' of Gerontius and is almost contemporary in its ecumenical message.

If you don't know the work Boult's classic recording from EMI is currently available for the price of two Starbuck lattes - no contest.

Many thanks to everyone who joined in the fun.

Email received:… Elgar’s Apostles which includes a...

2008-03-27T16:01:00.000Z

Email received:

… Elgar’s Apostles which includes a Shofar …

Antoine

Elgar's The Apostles

2008-03-27T15:41:00.000Z

Elgar's The Apostles

Email received:Hi Bob:More like “Guessing the Scor...

2008-03-27T15:35:00.000Z

Email received:

Hi Bob:

More like “Guessing the Score” but would it be Elgar’s “The Apostles”?

Carol

If the ancient Jewish instrument is the shofar, co...

2008-03-27T14:15:00.000Z

If the ancient Jewish instrument is the shofar, could it be Elgar's Apostles, first performed in 1903?

Mahler's 8th?(bobregular)

2008-03-27T14:08:00.000Z

Mahler's 8th?

(bobregular)

Looks like Elgar's 'The Apostles' to me. The ancie...

2008-03-27T13:29:00.000Z

Looks like Elgar's 'The Apostles' to me. The ancient instrument being the shofar.

Does the score also incorporate a keyboard glocken...

2008-03-27T13:12:00.000Z

Does the score also incorporate a keyboard glockenspiel as well as a glockenspiel; and also Gregorian chant?

Mahler - Symphony No. 8?

2008-03-27T12:45:00.000Z

Mahler - Symphony No. 8?

I'm not sure you're really after an answer, but a ...

2008-03-27T11:40:00.000Z

I'm not sure you're really after an answer, but a memory of being an "extra" in the percussion section for this some 30+ years ago (as a student) says "Carmina Burana?". I do remember giving the chorus a real shock the first time the whole force got together for a combined rehearsal :-)

(sorry if this is a repeat - not sure the first attempt made it, I run my default browser with extremely restricted settings and occasionally get bitten :-) )