E:28/06 fm quiz - York Bowen - Lawrence Power

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http://www.classicfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=215483&spid=9330

Monday's Question: For what category was Lawrence Powers nominated in this year's Classical BRIT Awards?


ans - Young British Performer/Group

from here

http://www.classicalbrits.co.uk/nominations/#/listNominations-105

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Tuesday's Question: Where did York Bowen first receive musical training?

ans - North Metropolitan College of Music

from here

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


(presume they meant there and not with his mother)

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Wednesday's Question: What was York Bowen's connection to the Scots Guards?

ans - he played in their regimental band during the first world war

here

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

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Thursday's Question: Lawrence Power plays a rare viola, made by which Bolognese maker?


ans - Antonio Brensi

from here (Last paragraph)

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artist_page.asp?name=power

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Friday's Question : In what year did Lawrence Power record an album of music by Sir William Walton and Edmund Rubbra?

Answer: 2006

"Recorded at City Hall, Glasgow, on 16 and 17 September 2006 (concertos) and Henry Wood Hall, London, on 27 September 2006 (Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn)"

from here

(hope you don't mind me posting today's NOSONDDU- up with the balloon race just now )