A Song Is Born Page #3

- In what way?

- With this quiz program on the radio.

What is it?

It's a musical quiz.

It has questions and answers,

and you got to play the tune.

Maybe we should have got a radio.

Well, just what is your trouble?

Well, I can play the answers,

if I knew the answers.

But he can't play them

if he don't know them.

- That's logical.

- Have you got the questions with you?

- Sure, he's got them.

- Yes, here it is, right here.

Question... First question is number one.

And it says,

"What eminent contra... Contra... "

"What eminent contrapuntalist literally

gave his name to a musical work?"

- That is obvious.

- That would be my department.

- Johann Sebastian Bach.

- Please to meet you.

- How do you do?

- How are you, Mr. Bach?

How do you do, Mr. Bach?

I'm not Mr. Bach.

Mr. Bach was born

in Eisenach in Germany,

in the year 1750 and died in 1685.

Are you sure about that, mister?

Yes, I'm sure he died.

They buried him on account of that.

Well, the way you got it,

he didn't even get born.

Well, maybe I'm wrong.

He was born in 1685 and died in 1750.

Mr. Bach wrote beautiful music.

Beautiful music.

- He makes good beer, too.

- That so? I didn't know that. Yeah.

The composition referred to

is a fugue written by Mr. Bach

with the letters of his name B flat,

A, C, and B natural.

B- A-C-B? Bach?

That doesn't sound right, does it?

I'm asking you.

The Germans, of course,

use the letter H for our B natural,

meaning B flat when they say B.

- Mister, I don't need all of that.

- He just needs to know the tune.

You mean just a few bars for recognition?

- That's it.

- I'd be very happy to play it for you.

- There you are.

- Is that all there is to it?

That's all there is, just the four notes.

Well, I'm going to lay some stuff

with my left hand on the bass here.

When I give you the nod with my head,

you give me them four notes up there.

Very good.

- Most unusual.

- It's amazing.

A very remarkable construction

in the bass pattern.

- You think so?

- I'd like to hear more of it.

I can't do much with this Bach guy.

No, he's too square.

Maybe the next cat's

got a little more beat.

- Who's got the next question?

- He's got them over there.

Frisbee, the second question please.

Oh, yes, right here.

"What bit of African terpsichore

"came from the pen

of a Norwegian composer?"

- That would be you, Gerkikoff.

- That is easy.

That would be Anitra's Dance.

You know the melody, Magenbruch.

Yes, I know it.

Anitra's dance is from Grieg's

incidental music for Ibsen's Peer Gynt.

Would you like to play it for us,

Magenbruch?

Lovely melody.

I heard that before.

Would you play it again for me, please?

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