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WINNER OF OUR FEBRUARY QUIZ!
2/01/10: Elizabeth R. Austin of Connecticut was the first to correctly identify Margaret Brouwer's Pulse. Listen to the excerpt.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
1/01/10: No one guessed the work, Alexina Louie's Winter Music. Listen to the excerpt.
12/01/09: Deborah Hayes of Boulder, Colorado, was the first to correctly identify Helen Taylor's Sonata for Violin and Piano. Listen to the excerpt.
11/01/09: Deborah Hayes of Boulder, Colorado, was the first to correctly identify Minna Keal's Cantillation for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 4. Listen to the excerpt.
10/01/09: No one guessed the work, Doreen Carwithen's Bishop Rock. Listen to the excerpt.
9/01/09: Liane Curtis was the first to correctly identify Maria Szmanowska's Nocturne in B-flat Major. Listen to the excerpt.
8/01/09: No one guessed the work, Miriam Gideon's Mixco. Listen to the excerpt.
7/01/09: No one guessed the work, Sally Beamish's Viola Concerto (No.1). Listen to the excerpt.
6/01/09: No one guessed the work, Elizabeth Maconchy's String Quartet No.12. Listen to the excerpt.
5/01/09: Deborah Hayes of Boulder, Colorado, was the first to correctly identify Grace Williams' Fairest of Stars. Listen to the excerpt.
4/01/09: No one guessed the work, Camilla de Rossi's Sinfonia from "l Sacrifizio di Abramo." Listen to the excerpt.
3/01/09: No one guessed the work, Shulamit Ran's Inscriptions. Listen to the excerpt.
2/01/09: Liane Curtis was the first to correctly identify Liza Lehmann's Thoughts Have Wings. Listen to the excerpt.
1/01/09: Deborah Hayes of Boulder, Colorado, was the first to correctly identify Rachael Portman's music from the film Ethan Frome. Listen to the excerpt. This is Deborah's fourth win — congratulations to our listener with a detective's ear!
12/01/08: No one guessed the work, Nancy Van de Vate's How Fares the Night? Listen to the excerpt.
11/01/08: Elizabeth R. Austin was the first to correctly identify Hildegard von Bingen's Ave Generosa. Listen to the excerpt.
10/01/08: No one guessed the work, Grazyna Bacewicz's Concerto for String Orchestra. Listen to the excerpt.
9/01/08: No one guessed the work, Katherine Hoover's Double Concerto. Listen to the excerpt.
8/01/08: No one guessed the work, Sofia Gubaidulina's Allegro Rustico. Listen to the excerpt.
7/01/08: No one guessed the work, Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté's Triple Concerto for trumpet, clarinet, and bassoon. Listen to the excerpt.
6/01/08: J. Deborah Hayes of Boulder, Colorado, was the first to correctly identify Barbara Marianne Martines' Sinfonia in C. Listen to the excerpt.
5/01/08: J. Michele Edwards of St. Paul, Minnesota, was the first to correctly identify Barbara Strozzi's Denial (or, "If I swear, my life, that I love you..."). Listen to the excerpt.
4/01/08: Deborah Hayes of Boulder, Colorado, was the first to correctly identify Marion Bauer's Sonata for Viola and Piano, op.22. Listen to the excerpt.
3/01/08: Deborah Hayes of Boulder, Colorado, was the first to correctly identify Vítezslava Kaprálová's Military Sinfonietta. Listen to the excerpt.
2/01/08: No one guessed the work, Julia Perry's A Short Piece for Orchestra. Listen to the excerpt.
1/01/08: Sivan Eldar of TelAviv/Boston was the first to correctly identify Nadia Boulanger's Three Pieces for Cello and Piano of 1913. Listen to the excerpt.
12/01/07: Sivan Eldar of TelAviv/Boston was the first to correctly identify Chen Yi's Ge Xu. Listen to the excerpt.
11/01/07: Dr. Sally Macarthur of University of Western Sydney in Australia was the first to correctly identify Laurie Anderson's Time to Go. Listen to the excerpt.
10/01/07: No one guessed the work, Jennifer Higdon's Concerto for Orchestra. Listen to the excerpt.
9/01/07: No one guessed the work, Maria Theresia von Paradis's Endlich winkt der Freund der Müden. Listen to the excerpt.
8/01/07: No one guessed the work, Meredith Monk's Travel Song. Listen to the excerpt.
7/01/07: No one guessed the work, Elfrida Andrée's Symphony No. 2 in A Minor. Listen to the excerpt.
6/01/07: No one guessed the work, Miriam Gideon's Steeds of Darkness. Listen to the excerpt.
5/01/07: No one guessed the work, Ruth Crawford Seeger's Suite for Wind Quintet. Listen to the excerpt.
4/01/07: No one guessed the work, Mary Howe's Spring Pastoral. Listen to the excerpt.
3/01/07: No one guessed the work, Melinda Wagner's Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion. Listen to the excerpt.
2/01/07: No one guessed the work, Florence Price's The Deserted Garden. Listen to the excerpt.
1/01/07: No one guessed the work, Pauline Viardot-Garcia's Bonjour mon Coeur. Listen to the excerpt.
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Entrants are only eligible to win a quiz once every six months. Composers are not eligible to win any quiz of which their own composition is the subject!
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