quickbeam Wrote:Gotta answer this even if it's a guess. I'll never win by banking at €16K.

Q10.
A) Definitely not Irving Berlin. He wrote White Christmas. Rhapsody is more light classical I think.
B) I don't think it's Gershwin. Didn't he do Porgy & Bess? I don't think he did Rhapsody too.
C) Copeland, yeah, maybe him, mainly because I don't think it's the others.
D) Porter, no, like Berlin I think he did more "pop songs" (for the era) than classical.

I wish I remembered something else Copeland did so I could compare. I'm still leaning that way. It might just be Gershwin though at an outside chance.

quickbeam Wrote:When I wrote earlier I was about 75% Copeland and 25% Gershwin.

I'm now about 55% Copeland and 45% Gershwin.

Only thing is, if I go Gershwin and it ends up being Copeland I'll be a lot more annoyed at myself for not going with my initial gut than if it go Copeland and it ends up being Gershwin.

If this were real life I'd 100% take the money.

Arrrrrrrrrrrraghhhhh! What are you doing to me Kol?? What am I doing to myself?

quickbeam Wrote:Okay, I flipped a coin at it came up Gershwin. But I wasn't comfortable submitting that, so I decided on best of three, and flipped twice more and the next two came up Copeland.

The very fact that I didn't want to take the initial result and go for best of three instead, actually tells me more than the result itself. I'm going to go for C) Aaron Copeland, final answer.

After all that, it'll probably end up being Berlin or Porter, but if it is, then I have no regrets over not picking them as they were never in contention.

Now, must - resist - Googling - answer!!

(27-10-2021, 07:11 PM)quickbeam Wrote: 8.33am:

quickbeam Wrote:Gotta answer this even if it's a guess.  I'll never win by banking at €16K.

Q10.
A) Definitely not Irving Berlin.  He wrote White Christmas.  Rhapsody is more light classical I think.
B) I don't think it's Gershwin.  Didn't he do Porgy & Bess?  I don't think he did Rhapsody too.
C) Copeland, yeah, maybe him, mainly because I don't think it's the others.
D) Porter, no, like Berlin I think he did more "pop songs" (for the era) than classical.

I wish I remembered something else Copeland did so I could compare.  I'm still leaning that way.  It might just be Gershwin though at an outside chance.

11.17am:

quickbeam Wrote:When I wrote earlier I was about 75% Copeland and 25% Gershwin.

I'm now about 55% Copeland and 45% Gershwin.

Only thing is, if I go Gershwin and it ends up being Copeland I'll be a lot more annoyed at myself for not going with my initial gut than if it go Copeland and it ends up being Gershwin.

If this were real life I'd 100% take the money.

Arrrrrrrrrrrraghhhhh!  What are you doing to me Kol??  What am I doing to myself?

11.26am:

quickbeam Wrote:Okay, I flipped a coin at it came up Gershwin.  But I wasn't comfortable submitting that, so I decided on best of three, and flipped twice more and the next two came up Copeland.

The very fact that I didn't want to take the initial result and go for best of three instead, actually tells me more than the result itself.  I'm going to go for C) Aaron Copeland, final answer.

After all that, it'll probably end up being Berlin or Porter, but if it is, then I have no regrets over not picking them as they were never in contention.

Now, must - resist - Googling - answer!!

Poor Kol receiving those PMs!

(27-10-2021, 07:07 PM)quickbeam Wrote:

(27-10-2021, 07:05 PM)Leg End Reject Wrote: Oh no, did you go for Irving Berlin? I narrowed it down to those 2 but knew I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas was Irving's famous song.

No, ruled out Berlin and Porter quickly.  I was 50/50 between Copeland and Gershwin.  Well, a little surer about Copeland, which is why I went with him in the end.  Ah well.  I didn't need that €16K anyway   I 100% would have taken the money if it was real life.

(27-10-2021, 07:08 PM)Trigger Wrote: Waheyyy.. Nice one CJ! Had no idea myself but what you wrote gave me enough confidence to trust ya! I chose to phone you before anything had been even written on this thread apart from the question

(27-10-2021, 07:00 PM)Leg End Reject Wrote: Apologies to my new friends if I'm wrong!

(27-10-2021, 07:28 PM)cee_jay Wrote: Berlin and Porter were more show tunes and Broadway so were ruled out. I thought the piece was kinda classical jazz, which kinda fitted with Gershwin, but didn't know Copeland to say for sure.

(27-10-2021, 08:46 PM)E.N. Wrote:

(27-10-2021, 07:28 PM)cee_jay Wrote: Berlin and Porter were more show tunes and Broadway so were ruled out. I thought the piece was kinda classical jazz, which kinda fitted with Gershwin, but didn't know Copeland to say for sure.

My logic too, and I almost gambled on Gershwin but bottled it. Thanks for the help @Leg End Reject

(27-10-2021, 08:50 PM)Leg End Reject Wrote:

(27-10-2021, 08:46 PM)E.N. Wrote: My logic too, and I almost gambled on Gershwin but bottled it. Thanks for the help @Leg End Reject

I'm just lucky because it seems I used flawed logic by narrowing it down to Berlin and Gershwin. 

(27-10-2021, 08:53 PM)E.N. Wrote:

(27-10-2021, 08:50 PM)Leg End Reject Wrote: I'm just lucky because it seems I used flawed logic by narrowing it down to Berlin and Gershwin. 

I'm never trusting you again

(27-10-2021, 07:09 PM)Leg End Reject Wrote: I'm impressed with Barna, cee_jay and nothing still having 2 lifelines left!

(27-10-2021, 07:26 PM)Zaph Wrote: Fanfare for the Common Man is probably Copeland's best known work.  Emerson, Lake and Palmer did a version of it in the 70s.  The video was shot in the partially built Montreal Olympic stadium iirc.

(27-10-2021, 07:51 PM)Edser Wrote: Unfortunately I'm now out of lifelines, so I assume I'll know the rest of the answers from now on 

(27-10-2021, 07:09 PM)Leg End Reject Wrote: I'm impressed with Barna, cee_jay and nothing still having 2 lifelines left!

(28-10-2021, 09:41 AM)E.N. Wrote: Answer in. No sure but death or glory, I refuse to use a lifeline while at 32k

(28-10-2021, 05:16 PM)quickbeam Wrote: I was 50/50 between two answers.  Sorry if I'm wrong and my answer skewed an Audience lifeline.

(28-10-2021, 05:16 PM)quickbeam Wrote: I was 50/50 between two answers.  Sorry if I'm wrong and my answer skewed an Audience lifeline.