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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Keep going.

Xenia, Boris' daughter (so bereaved at the end of the opera); Boris was one of Ivan the Terrible's "advisors" to whom he trusted his son after his death.

[Flay]

Xenia, Boris' daughter (so bereaved at the end of the opera); Boris was one of Ivan the Terrible's "advisors" to whom he trusted his son after his death.

Gosh, well done, ferney. Poor Xenia had a rotten time of it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia_Borisovna_Godunova

[subcontrabass]

Xenia, Boris' daughter (so bereaved at the end of the opera); Boris was one of Ivan the Terrible's "advisors" to whom he trusted his son after his death.

Got there. Boris was brother-in-law to Fyodor, the son of Ivan the Terrible. Xenia is bereaved when she first appears in the opera, as her fiance has just died.

Why don't you set us the next question?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A composer who broke the sound barrier
Another who had questions about music
and Tippett's first 'cellist

Y are they connectid?

[subcontrabass]

A composer who broke the sound barrier
Another who had questions about music
and Tippett's first 'cellist

Y are they connectid?

Yale?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yale?

How do you do it, Subby? Astonishing and exact.

Details?

[subcontrabass]

How do you do it, Subby? Astonishing and exact.

Crafty internet searching.

Details?

All educated at Yale:

(1) I think Nathan Davis, described as "Rising composer/percussionist who relishes breaking the sound barrier" (http://music.rice.edu/news/media.shtml) (but you might have someone else in mind);

(2) Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question;

(3) Ralph Kirshbaum, who played the 'cello in the first performance of Michael Tippett's Triple Concerto.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

All educated at Yale:

(1) I think Nathan Davis, described as "Rising composer/percussionist who relishes breaking the sound barrier" (http://music.rice.edu/news/media.shtml) (but you might have someone else in mind);

I do (I was unaware of Mr Davis before your post)

(2) Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question;

Not in this instance.

(3) Ralph Kirshbaum, who played the 'cello in the first performance of Michael Tippett's Triple Concerto.

Re-arrange your thoughts on (1) and (2), and have another try at (2).

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Re-arrange your thoughts on (1) and (2), and have another try at (2).

So Ives for (1)?

Robert Carl: A Musical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful for (2)?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

So Ives for (1)?

(Me and my pun-y sense of humour: the Concord Sonata)

Robert Carl: A Musical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful for (2)?

No: a much more famous composer. (Had the same composition teacher as Ives)

[subcontrabass]

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No: a much more famous composer. (Had the same composition teacher as Ives)

The only other famous composer from Yale that I can identify is Cole Porter, but he was taught composition at Harvard.

[mercia]

Roger Sessions - Questions about Music

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Roger Sessions - Questions about Music

[subcontrabass]

Roger Sessions - Questions about Music

I thought fhg said famous, not notorious

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well, I've heard of him!

Who wants the Z/A?