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4BR Spring Festival Quiz

We have a great band prize on offer for the person who can come up with the right Grand Shield duo from the history books...

Grand Shield
 

We have another nice little brain teaser ahead of the Spring Festival in Blackpool this weekend — so get your thinking caps.

Prize

The prize is a trio of great new pieces of music for your band to play from our friends at Forton Music.

So get the answer right and you could be performing 'Elegy' — a lyrical soprano cornet solo by composer Keiron Anderson; the rousing concert march, 'The Djebels' by Ian Vlemmiks, and Ian's evocative 'Sea of Tranquility'.

To find out more go to: http://www.fortonmusic.co.uk/

Question:

All you have to do is to tell us the year in which the Grand Shield last produced two qualifiers that subsequently went on to win the British Open itself?

Was it?

a) 2010
b) 1994
c) 1976

A quick check here may give you the answer you are looking for: http://www.4barsrest.com/archive/contest.asp?PID=5

All you have to do is to tell us the year in which the Grand Shield last produced two qualifiers that subsequently went on to win the British Open itself?4BR

Collective noun winner

The best (although we did have a few the same) answer we thought to the question of what would be the most appropriate collective noun for a group of composers was….. a 'Liszt'.

Ian Hopkins of Sheffield wins the prize, although he did admit that he first thought of a 'Brahms and Liszt' of composers but felt the trio in question in the picture would never get themselves into such a predicament…

Ian will be sent the CD releases of 'Black Dyke Gold Volume V', Edward Gregson's new orchestral release and Oliver Waespi's 'In the Picture'.

Answers:

E-mail us the answer before 12.00pm (midnight) on Friday 13th May with your contact telephone details at: quiz@4barsrest.com

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