{"id":928,"date":"2020-06-05T23:46:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T23:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=928"},"modified":"2025-06-16T10:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:49:45","slug":"quiz-number-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/quiz-number-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz Number 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These quiz questions were originally posted in facebook with a very short clip as a clue &#8211; so here I will post the clues before the teaserbreak. The task is to identify the composer and the music.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/videos\/friday.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Fifth Question<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container-small\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/videos\/friday.mp4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<label class=\"reveal-btn\" style=\"width: 300px;\" for=\"showhide\">Show Me The Music<\/label><br \/>\n<input id=\"showhide\" role=\"button\" type=\"checkbox\" \/>\t <\/p>\n<div id=\"hidden-part\">Here is today&#8217;s oasis of calm &#8211; the Pavane pour une infante d\u00e9funte by Ravel. There is no fancy video with this one so you can just close your eyes and enjoy the soundscape.<\/p>\n<p>As I said last night in quiz number 4 it is one of the most perilous opening minutes for the horn player in any of the repertoire &#8211; it is quiet; it is high in the range; and coming right at the very beginning of the piece it is very exposed.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, it is the same principal horn on this recording as on last night&#8217;s of the Karelia Suite &#8211; between 1984 (when the Karelia recording was made) and 1986 when this one was made Hugh had left the SNO and become principal at the LSO &#8211; and he plays this beautifully.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YqUON8j9e1o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maurice Ravel : Pavane Pour Une Infante D\u00e9funte<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YqUON8j9e1o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These quiz questions were originally posted in facebook with a very short clip as a clue &#8211; so here I will post the clues before the teaserbreak. The task is to identify the composer and the music. The Fifth Question<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[100,106],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-orchestral","tag-romantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2854,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/2854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}