- I am male
- I am not living
- I am/was a real person
- I was born after 1900 AD
- I am best known for my accomplishments in The Arts
- Not American
- I am European
- My primary medium is not visual
- I died after 1980
- I died before last week
- Last name begins with R
- I was born before 1950
- My primary medium is musical
- I am/was not a vocalist
- I am not British
- I am not a guitarist
- I am not a composer
Dang - I thought I might have found you out with that one! I meant Mstislav Rostropovich, for whom Prokoffiev, Shostakovich and Britten all wrote cello music (sonatas and concerti), and who conducted the US National Symphony Orchestra for many years.
DQ - Would the genre of your music generally be described as Rock/Pop?
No, it would not be considered Rock/Pop; however, I must note at one time something I did crossed over and gave me some notoriety in that area.
Did you appear in a music video with Robin Williams?
Is this a DQ or an IQ? No, I am not Bobby McFerrin.
Going for IQ (got the info I wanted)
IQ1: Have you been a lyricist for Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sir Elton John and the team of Andersson/Ulvaeus?
IQ2: Are you all but single-handedly responsible for the current prestige of South Asian classical music?
IQ3: Are you a Québécois singer/songwriter with close ties to the Rhinoceros Party of Canada?
IQ1: I am not Tim Rice
IQ2: Take a DQ
IQ3: The Rhinoceros Party? That’s different. Nope, not me. Please take another DQ.
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is a reference to Ravi Shankar, who wrote the book on northern Indian classical music while relentlessly touring, lecturing, teaching and recording. Prior to his influence, the traditional music was in decline. His influence cannot be over-stated.
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is the infamous Michel Rivard, who is best known as the singer/songwriter behind the band ‘Beau Dommage’. He penned the hits ‘Harmonie du soir à Châteauguai’ and ‘La Complainte de la phoque d’Alaska’. He also ran for the Rhinoceros Party, a satirical political party that ran candidates for election in the 1970s. Some of their party platforms included making Anne Murray cultural attachée to Tierra del Fuego, separating Québec from the rest of Canada with a chain-saw, repealing the law of gravity, etc. Worth your research, once this round is over.
I’d like to engage in some side talk before I ask any more DQs. What do y’all think is the most useful bit of information? Finding out the genre of music? Finding out the instrument? Finding out the country of origin?
We haven’t eliminated conductor, either. The big, strange clue is that cross-over performance. I keep coming up with people who are wrong on some level… Ideas, gang?
Well, heck, here I go -
DQ - Would the genre of your music generally be described as Classical?
I’ll save the other DQ for the moment - I’m rather puzzled by this one…
Yes, Classical music is my primary genre
I cannot begin to tell you how it pains me to admit publicly that I’m stumped. One last, desperate flailing -
DQ - Are you a conductor?
No, I am not a conductor
Reveal time? Since I think you and I are the only two left? I’ve killed threads before, never thought I’d kill an entire game…
We usually give everyone who stumped you one guess at who you might be before revealing your identity. The best one I can come up with is -
Are you Sviatoslav Richter?
I can’t speak for anybody else as to whether they want a crack at it. Once again, I’m sure I’m going to cry myself to sleep once I hear who this really is.
No, I am Jean-Pierre Rampal, one of the best flautists, IMO. Classical music was his forte, but he also earned acclaim (and time on Billboards Top 40) for his collaboration with Claude Bolling in Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano.
Sorry - late to the party. I’ve heard of that guy, and even have some of his stuff on my iPod.
Start another round, MissTake?
Sure. The letter is J
Botticelli has two "t"s, BTW, for future thread searches.
IQs:
Did your wife save a famous painting?
Were you supposedly born in Riverside, Iowa?
Were you a rustic British vet who wrote many books about your experiences?
Yep. I have the Bolling recording and everything; I haven’t listened to it in years, though. You got me, fair and square.
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I met him back in 1983ish, a very kind man. In front of him were a half dozen gibbering teenaged girls, just heard him play, I had just performed “Baroque and Blue” for a state competition…he was patient in answering our questions, taught us some simple etudes.