Name that piece! The game

[Hattoff]

Okay, it's a Sinfonietta. Although this composer is well known, there is very little of his music available, hence I used his Sinfonietta.
That's enough clues for a few hours

[Grazioso]

Zemlinsky?

[Hattoff]

Not Zemlinsky, this chap was about 12 years old when Zemlinsky died. He is well known for pinching something!

[Grazioso]

Not Zemlinsky, this chap was about 12 years old when Zemlinsky died. He is well known for pinching something!

Did she slap him? 

Stylistically it reminds me a bit of Bernstein, but that doesn't fit the clues

[Amfortas]

How about Cristóbal Halffter?

[Hattoff]

Did she slap him? 

Stylistically it reminds me a bit of Bernstein, but that doesn't fit the clues

No she didn't slap him but things weren't the same afterwards.

Neither Bernstein nor Halffter, you all need need to go further south.

[Grazioso]

Williamson?

[mszczuj]

Not Zemlinsky, this chap was about 12 years old when Zemlinsky died.

If there was 42 not 12 years

He is well known for pinching something!

I would say Antheil.

[Hattoff]

Was it the pinch that gave it away?

Yes, it is from the Sinfonietta by that already forgotten composer (except by me) Malcolm Williamson, 1931-2003 RIP.

Your go Grazioso.

[Hattoff]

If there was 42 not 12 years

I would say Antheil.

Malcolm Williamson is "supposed" to have pinched the British Queen's bum/ass/arse/fanny during a photo shoot and was not, therefore, invited to Buckingham Palace ever again, which made it difficult for him as he was Master of the Queen's music.

[listener]

I was thinking Takemitsu, having just read
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ek20110920wh.html

You were at Otonashi Shrine, which enjoys a measure of fame, I learned, because of a butt-bumping, bottom-pinching festival held every year on Nov. 10. You may want to mark your calendar for this event, at which pairs of contestants stand back to back on an overturned wooden tub and try to bump each other off using only their bums. But the main observance occurs when visitors mingle in complete darkness, silently passing cups of sacred sake. To signal the next person to take the cup, you pinch their bottom, which is why the festival is called the Shiritsumi Matsuri. ("Shiri" means "buttocks," and "tsumi" is a pinch or nip).

[Hattoff]

Those Japanese sure know how to enjoy themselves Probably wouldn't go down to well with the queen though

[Grazioso]

Was it the pinch that gave it away?

Yes, it is from the Sinfonietta by that already forgotten composer (except by me) Malcolm Williamson, 1931-2003 RIP.

Your go Grazioso.

The funny thing is, when I made that joke (I was about to say "crack" ) about the pinch, it was just that, a joke. I thought you were using "pinch" in the British slang sense of "steal," as if he ripped off someone's music

The earlier clue that he is "well known" threw me, but I researched Southern Hemisphere composers born around 1930 and narrowed it down.

A new challenge:

http://www.4shared.com/audio/hwUEwj5j/GMG_Mystery_Clip_7.html

[Hattoff]

I'm afraid I was being ambiguous in an attempt to amuse Sometimes I can't help myself from punning but on a multinational board, like this one, I'm, sometimes, not understood. My bad

Anyway is it Wieniawski?

[Grazioso]

I'm afraid I was being ambiguous in an attempt to amuse Sometimes I can't help myself from punning but on a multinational board, like this one, I'm, sometimes, not understood. My bad

Anyway is it Wieniawski?

No problem I found the bum-pinching anecdote amusing! Good classical music trivia to file away...

Not Wieniawski.

[Amfortas]

  I thought you were using "pinch" in the British slang sense of "steal," as if he ripped off someone's music

That's exactly what I had thought. Not being British, I do know a lot of the expressions...


Can't begin to guess this Romantic-sounding violin concerto or its composer

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

That's exactly what I had thought. Not being British, I do know a lot of the expressions...

I did get 'pinching the Queen's bottom' - but I'm an anglophile.

[Grazioso]

That's exactly what I had thought. Not being British, I do know a lot of the expressions...


Can't begin to guess this Romantic-sounding violin concerto or its composer

Hint: he was a major violinist himself.

[mszczuj]

I know this very well, but I don't know what it is. No one note was strange to me in this clip. But I haven't listen to violin concertos consiously for years - only as sound wallpaper. So I have thought Wieniawski could be good answer. But while listening to it I had an impression that it was from earlier period.

Maybe it is Spohr - 8th concerto?

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I am thinking of Spohr, too.