{"id":1035,"date":"2005-07-05T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/05\/musical-contest-the-results-4\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T05:23:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T03:23:02","slug":"musical-contest-the-results-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/05\/musical-contest-the-results-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Contest: the Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/01\/the-riddle-to-end-them-all\/\">Contest<\/a> is Officially Over!<\/p>\n<p>I know I said I would post the solution this week-end, but things didn&#8217;t go as planned. Far from the comfort of my home and my little computer on Sunday night, I did try to sneak out of bed to send a quick post, around 4am, but was sharply reminded of House Rules regarding computer use, by the most evil phosphorescent glare, this side of the Pacific. I figured I&#8217;d rather be one day late on my promise than end up with a ritual katana neatly inserted between shoulder blades.<\/p>\n<p>Without further ado:<\/p>\n<h3>The Answers<\/h3>\n<p>By order of appearance in <a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/31\/did-i-say-that\/\">the entry<\/a> (I&#8217;ll leave it up to you to match translations and text).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_traviata\">La Traviata<\/a>: &#8220;Noi siamo zingarelle&#8221; (&#8220;We are the gypsies&#8221;) &#8211; Verdi, on a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carmen\">Carmen<\/a>: Acte 1: &#8220;Quand je vous aimerai?&#8230; L&#8217;amour est un oiseau rebelle&#8221; (&#8220;Love is an undomesticated bird&#8221;) &#8211; Bizet, on a libretto by Meilhac and Hal\u00e9vy (based on the novel by Prosper M\u00e9rim\u00e9e).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Vie_en_rose\">La Vie En Rose<\/a> &#8211; Original lyrics composed and sung by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\u00c9dith_Piaf\">Edith Piaf<\/a>. Though the only version I have on my hard drive is the cover by Grace Jones.<\/li>\n<li>La Traviata  (again): &#8220;Ah, fors&#8217;\u00e8 lui che l&#8217;anima&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Chan Chan &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Compay_Segundo\">Compay Segundo<\/a> &#8211; <i>Calle Salud<\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\">Le Tourbillon<\/a> &#8211; sung by French actress Jeanne Moreau, written by Cyrus Bassiak: this song is featured in Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut&#8217;s famous movie <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jules_et_Jim\">Jules et Jim<\/a><\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>She&#8217;s Lost Control &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joy_Division_%28band%29\">Joy Division<\/a> &#8211; <i>Unknown Pleasures<\/i> (1980)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/leonardcohen\/everybodyknows.html\">Everybody Knows<\/a> &#8211; Leonard Cohen<\/li>\n<li>Il n&#8217;y a pas d&#8217;amour heureux &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projetbrassens.eclipse.co.uk\/georgesbrassens.html\">Georges Brassens<\/a> &#8211; <i>Les Amoureux des Bancs Publiques<\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uen.org\/Lessonplan\/preview.cgi?LPid=1957\">Die Lorelei<\/a> &#8211; Schubert (many other versions) based on a poem by Heinrich Heine<\/li>\n<li>Kyrie &#8211; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart &#8211; <i>Requiem<\/i>: \u039a\u03c5\u03c1\u03b9\u03b5 \u03b5\u0313\u03bb\u03b5\u03b7\u03c3\u03bf\u03bd means &#8220;Lord, have mercy!&#8221; in classical greek. What? No, I&#8217;m not joking. I <em>did<\/em> mention greek in the rules, did I or did I not?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For your ears only, and very temporarily, I have uploaded all the ones I have on digital support, <a href=\"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/mp3s\/contest\/\">here<\/a>. But hurry up, as I&#8217;ll probably remove these very much not-copyright-safe files within a day or two.<\/p>\n<h3>The Winner<\/h3>\n<p>All right, now for the man who shall be getting our unrestrained admiration, as well as a bottle of that nasty paper glue solvant the locals refer to as &#8220;alcohol&#8221; (comes in a cute bottle) [a picture will soon follow]:<br \/>\nWell, there is no surprise and <a href=\"http:\/\/mac.tuitui.free.fr\/\">Mr. Tuitui<\/a> (helped by family) is the lucky winner. With an impressive 77% result (perhaps a bit less, as I suspect he only spotted the Traviata once, but let&#8217;s not be picky) or 10 tracks out of 13. Being French helped, seeing how it was heavily represented with four tracks. But then again, English would have been just a bit too easy.<br \/>\nCongratulation, Mr. Tuitui, my people shall be contacting your people and arrange for delivery. Preferably on a drier day than today.<\/p>\n<h3>Another One?<\/h3>\n<p>I think I may, when I have a sec, do another one. I&#8217;ll try to spend more than 10 minutes this time and make an entry slightly less nonsensical. In fact, perhaps you won&#8217;t even notice it&#8217;s there. Keep your eyes peeled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contest is Officially Over! I know I said I would post the solution this week-end, but things didn&#8217;t go as planned. Far from the comfort of my home and my little computer on Sunday night, I did try to sneak out of bed to send a quick post, around 4am, but was sharply reminded of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mp3s","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}