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Joseph Cooper hosts the 100th edition of the musical quiz. He is joined by Judith Jackson, Robin Ray and Richard Baker. The guest musician is Ian Wallace.
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00:00Hello and welcome to what, as you've just seen, is the 100th Face the Music.
00:22And it's also just 10 years since we did the first one.
00:25And facing the music tonight are the motoring correspondent of the Sunday Times, Judith Jackson.
00:32Good evening.
00:33Partnered by Richard Baker.
00:35Hello.
00:36And Robin Ray.
00:37Good evening.
00:38And of course, tonight's the night, we pick the winners of the crossword competition.
00:43We have a whole drum full of correct answers there, with some more to come.
00:48Our first round is the musical alphabet, and tonight the letter is H400.
00:54Here are three pieces of music.
00:56Either the name of the composer, or the piece, or the performer begins with H.
01:02And because it's our centenary programme, each piece has some connection with the figure 100.
01:09Richard, your alphabet piece.
01:11Well, it's an absolutely splendid sound, and just right for a centenary, Joe.
01:12Er...
01:13Er...
01:14I'm hoping.
01:15Well, it's an absolutely splendid sound and just right for a centenary, Joe.
01:41I'm hoping it's the Old Hundredth hymn tune.
01:46Yes. Yes, but of course there's a lot more to say about it than that,
01:49which you will tell me in just two ticks, I expect.
01:52Yes, the Old Hundredth, that's the tune which originally went with Psalm 100
01:56and nowadays more generally associated with the hymn
01:59All People That On Earth Do Dwell, which we heard in the arrangement by Vaughan Williams.
02:04But I knew that. But you didn't say it.
02:06No, but I thought you knew that I knew.
02:11You were quite right in associating it with Vaughan Williams.
02:15In fact, he actually wrote it for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
02:18Yes. One second. Right.
02:19Okay, Judith, an alphabet piece for you.
02:21It's by Haydn.
02:36Yes.
02:37Well, I can only assume it's the Hundredth Symphony.
02:39Oh, right. Absolutely.
02:40Robin has taught me how to accept hints.
02:42Absolutely right.
02:43It's the Hundredth by Haydn.
02:44Yes.
02:45Do you know the nickname of the symphony?
02:47It's not another one of the London Military ones.
02:51Military.
02:52Military, yes.
02:53I didn't know it.
02:54The Military Symphony, Number 100 by Haydn.
02:57Quite right. So it was the composer.
02:58Now, Robin, an alphabet piece for you.
03:01This is for you.
03:31Yes, I can see the connection.
03:37Ever since this programme has been on the air
03:39and the number of programmes I've taken part in,
03:42up until now, I've got 99 questions in the whole series wrong.
03:48This is the 100th.
03:52Would you like to guess what orchestra it might be?
03:55The Halle Orchestra.
03:57How's that for a start?
04:01Oh, of course, yes.
04:06Well, we thought it'd be nice to have the Halle with Loughran conducting
04:09because, after all, all the successful face of musics
04:12have been done here in Manchester, where we are.
04:15But I'm afraid we've got to go just a teensy-weensy little bit further
04:18into finding out what the work was.
04:20We can't just brush it aside.
04:21And also, it gives us the second 100 illusion.
04:26I think it's bra.
04:27Yes.
04:28Second symphony.
04:29Well, absolutely right.
04:31Well, I'll just give you...
04:35I'll throw in the extra 100 by telling you
04:38that the symphony is 100 years old this year.
04:42Yeah.
04:42The second symphony.
04:43Right.
04:44OK.
04:46Now, find the link.
04:48This is where you have to say whether there's a connection
04:50between the picture you see and the music you hear.
04:55and the theme is to do with the party's spirit.
04:58First, Richard, what's the link here?
05:00That's a lovely picture.
05:14That's a lovely picture of one of those lovely Viennese cab drivers and St Stephen's Cathedral
05:35in the background and that is Schumann, Faschingszwank and Wien, a carnival jest in Vienna.
05:41Yes, the link is Vienna. What is this carnival jest from Vienna?
05:47I'm not sure. Robin will know.
05:49Yes, the Marseillaise which Schumann put into it because you weren't supposed to play it in Germany at the time.
05:54Like this.
06:03Wonderful.
06:10Right. Now Judith, your celebration link.
06:12I didn't think ever that Berlioz went to the West Indies.
06:18Berlioz?
06:20Er, Vorjac went to the West Indies, sorry.
06:21That was a West Indies carnival.
06:22Yes.
06:23Caribbean.
06:24And we were listening to a carnival overture by Vorjac.
06:26Absolutely right, yes.
06:27Those were pictures of a Caribbean carnival and you were listening to the carnival overture by Vorjac.
06:30Absolutely perfect.
06:31Right.
06:32Robin, your link with the party flavour.
06:33Un magnifico mio sogno.
06:34Un magnifico mio sogno.
06:35Mi vale.
06:36Un magnifico mio sogno.
06:37Un magnifico mio sogno.
06:39Mi vale.
06:41Un magnifico mio sogno.
06:46Mi vale.
06:51Un magnifico mio sogno.
06:55Un magnifico mio sogno.
07:00mi veniste a sconcertar, mi veniste a sconcertar,
07:15mi ripugno, mi vergogno, come son mortificate de mie figlie d'un barone.
07:30Well I know the picture very well because there is a girl sitting in the grate with two ugly sisters and at any moment she's going to say I can get my foot in the crystal slipper and Buttons is going to say you couldn't get your foot in the crystal palace.
07:44But that's not the version that we're looking at. The picture is of Cinderella. I had some help with the music from one to my left along from Richard.
07:53It's the Rossini opera La Cenerentola which is in fact about Cinderella.
07:58Thank goodness you pronounced it. I never can.
08:01Oh really? Now you've worried me. I should have said Cenerentola.
08:04It was very good. I think it's right.
08:07The singer by the way who was seeing Don Magnifico was Ian Wallace and very well sung it was too I thought.
08:15Now for the dummy keyboard. After a hundred programmes I really don't need to say what happens in this question.
08:22If you don't know now you'll soon find out. It's a piano piece and I'm starting fairly near the end.
08:29.
08:34.
08:37.
08:38.
08:39.
08:40.
17:15I actually did my first broadcast from the top of the Empire State building in New York,
17:20but that was as a tourist going up there and doing a sort of in town tonight and singing a song.
17:25But no, I started my broadcasting career in Glasgow doing dramatised bits for schools and things like that.
17:32And I started my acting career in Glasgow on the stage.
17:37I must be the only actor who ever played the lead in his first play.
17:41It was The Man with a Load of Mischief by Ashley Dukes.
17:45And produced by a famous BBC producer from Scotland called Howard Lockett.
17:51And never played, it took me years to play the lead again after that.
17:55I suppose, excuse me I'm interrupting, I suppose you were paid very little in those days.
18:00Oh I was paid very little. I remember going back to my old grandfather and he said,
18:04What are you getting for this? He was a retired journalist. I said, Three guineas.
18:08He said, A night? I said, No. He said, A week? I said, No. He said, For the whole three weeks?
18:12I said, Yes. He said, That's what I can only describe as an alarmingly low salary.
18:20A little different from coming back many, many years later to Glasgow,
18:23having driven all the way up the motorway to do a show and going into a restaurant to have a meal,
18:29going into the gents, standing there for the obvious purpose.
18:33And there's a chap next to me and he says, Excuse me, you're Ian Wallace, aren't you?
18:37So I said, Yes. He said, You were a lovely singer.
18:44And that was ten years ago.
18:50Well Ian, it's been lovely having you on the programme.
18:52I'd like to talk to you much longer but there's more to be done.
18:55It's been lovely being here.
18:55So will you stay with us and enjoy the rest of the programme?
18:58Oh please, yes.
18:59Bye.
19:00Now for the moment you've waited through ten programmes for when we give the results of the competition.
19:15I'll just run through the answers to the clues as they're written on the form.
19:19One across, and Dante.
19:22That is how the slow movement of Haydn's clock symphony is marked.
19:26One down, Arioso, which you might describe as not quite an aria,
19:31as in the example we played from Messiah, but lo, the angel of the Lord.
19:37Two down, Duparc.
19:39He was the space composer, since in French his name includes a reference to an open space, a park.
19:45You heard part of his song, L'Invitation au Voyage.
19:51Three down, nine.
19:54The clue was number please, and of course you heard a bit from the start of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
20:01Four down, Eccles.
20:03That was the piece of cake.
20:06You heard the song Wise Nature by this 18th century English composer, Eccles.
20:11Five across, pen.
20:14That was the clue I gave you.
20:16Presumably, Tatiana used a pen when she was writing her letter song.
20:21Six across, Occa.
20:24The Italian for goose.
20:26And Middle Eastern style, because you heard a bit of Mozart's opera, L'Occa da Caro.
20:34Seven across, Earl.
20:36That was the king, and you heard part of Schubert's song, The Earl King.
20:40Eight across, Occa, the page in Verdi's opera, A Masked Ball.
20:48Now, the winners.
20:51And I'm going to ask the producer of the programme, Walter Todds,
20:54to come on with some late, correct answers, and we'll pick the four winners.
21:00I, uh, I don't want you to get agitated, I'm not actually going to play this.
21:14Oh.
21:14But there are just a few more.
21:17Altogether, you'll be surprised to hear, we had 5,557 answers.
21:235,557 answers.
21:25Yes, fantastic.
21:26And what's more, they're all here.
21:27Believe it or not, they're all there.
21:29Some of them are wrong.
21:30About, well, 700.
21:33Actually, a lot of people got the, the, the, uh, Middle Eastern goose a bit wrong.
21:38That was a major mistake.
21:39But all the rest, I mean, nearly 5,000 were right.
21:43Is it true that one gentleman put O, and then all the letters of the alphabet,
21:46and then A for the ochre?
21:48Yes, he sent in 26 entries.
21:53Now, I think we ought to shuffle them about.
21:55Yes, yes.
21:56You shuffle.
21:57All right, I'll shuffle.
21:58Right.
22:00He looks as though he's making a pudding.
22:02We have a terrible fear that when we draw these,
22:05we might put them back and forever lose who's the winner.
22:08Let's remember that I give them to you and you keep them.
22:11All right.
22:11That's okay.
22:11Okay.
22:12Shall I go first?
22:13You go first.
22:13Right, okay.
22:14Ah!
22:15Ah!
22:17Ah!
22:19Ah!
22:19Well, this is right.
22:21And the first winner of the four is Michael Bates
22:25of 151 Red House Lane, Aldrich, West Midlands.
22:30So, well done, Michael Bates.
22:32Go on, over to you.
22:34I'll give you my pocket.
22:39I'm going well below.
22:41Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
22:45Have you got one or six?
22:47No, one.
22:51CD Bates.
22:52How incredible.
22:54133.
22:56Goff Road, New Inn, Pontypool, Gwent, NP45LY.
23:02L.Y. Yes, never mind about that, it's to Mother Bates.
23:12Look, supposing the third one is by Mr Bates,
23:15what's going to happen? I think we've given another Shuffling.
23:18More Shuffling, much more Shuffling.
23:20OK, right.
23:23Right. Right.
23:25Ah, well, it's not Bates.
23:27Oh, thank goodness.
23:28It's Mrs Sheena Ruddick, Nine Coles Lane, King Kurzweil, if that's the way to pronounce it, Devon.
23:35Well done, Mrs Ruddick, is what I say.
23:48Right, the last.
23:50Oh, I'll have to get Ian to tell me how to pronounce the name.
23:53From John Ford, 867, Carlops Road, Pennequick?
23:59Pennequick.
24:00Pennequick.
24:01Pennequick.
24:02Pennequick.
24:03Midlothian.
24:04So there we are.
24:05There we are. That's the point.
24:09Well, I must just say they came from all over the British Isles,
24:13and we are absolutely delighted so many people kept track of this crossword and answered it.
24:17It wasn't all that easy, was it?
24:18No, it wasn't.
24:19Right.
24:20Walter, will you remember to have the stuff sent off to them?
24:22Yes.
24:23All those four will get book tokens, I'm sorry, record tokens, sent off immediately, worth 25 quid.
24:30Thank you very much again.
24:31On with the show.
24:40Now, Voices Past and Present.
24:42This is where you have to say whether the voice you hear belongs to the singer whose picture you see.
24:49And the name of the question has a rather special significance tonight.
24:53All the singers are of the present day, though they are not all still before the public.
24:59And all of them have appeared in past Face the Music programmes, though none in the current series.
25:05Richard.
25:06Well, that's a lovely lady.
25:34Unfortunately, we see around a good deal, though not greatly singing, although she did sing in Elijah,
25:39in my home village of Radlet in Hertfordshire, not so very long ago.
25:43We saw on the screen, and we were listening to Isabel Bailey.
25:47Yes.
25:48And there's a little Manchester story about her.
25:50I think it was Barbara Rolly was conducting at the time, and they'd just done,
25:54I think it must have been The Messiah, something of that sort.
25:56And a letter arrived addressed to the Nightingale, from a radio listener,
26:01to the Nightingale, who sang last night from Manchester.
26:04And Barbara Rolly just took the letter and handed it to Isabel Bailey and said,
26:08this must be for you.
26:10How sweet.
26:11Which is nice.
26:12Very nice.
26:13You didn't say what the piece was.
26:15My heart's ever faithful, it's Bach, isn't it?
26:17Right, that's enough.
26:18That's enough.
26:19Fine.
26:20Okay.
26:21Now, Judith.
26:22Come into the garden, Lord, for the black but night has flown.
26:35Come into the garden, Lord, I am here at the gate alone.
26:43I am here at the gate alone.
26:50Yes.
26:51Well, I was listening to Come into the Garden Ward.
26:55I was looking at Kenneth McKellar.
27:01I'm not exactly certain who I was listening to,
27:04but if I can take a clue from the fact that Robert Tear has been singing some Victorian songs recently,
27:10I'll guess that it was Robert Tear.
27:11And you'd be right.
27:12APPLAUSE
27:18That's right.
27:19Connoisseurs like Robin Ray will not have failed to have spotted the marvellous piano accompaniment
27:24because they make or mar these songs, and that was Andre Previn.
27:28Oh, was it?
27:29Yes, yes.
27:30Correct, Judith.
27:31Now, Robin, a voice and a face for you.
27:33Oh, I knew we would love you
27:40For freedom, Luka, raising on the sea in the power of violence,
27:54They don't seem to match to me somehow.
28:09The voice, I'm virtually sure, is Dame Eva Turner, singing Butterfly.
28:18I'm virtually sure.
28:20I didn't say I was positively sure, did I?
28:22Some fine day I'm going to catch Robin Ray.
28:28Richard, could you just clear up the mess?
28:30Well, I'm not even.
28:32I've never been caught a mess before.
28:35If I've ever succeeded in clearing up a mess for Robin, it really will make the day.
28:40I don't think I can. The picture was of Eva Turner.
28:42Right.
28:42As Turandot.
28:44As a Turandot.
28:45She said Do. I always said Turandot.
28:48But she told me the other day that Dot is now permissible.
28:52Well, OK.
28:54Anyway, and who have you been listening to?
28:56I can't really do.
28:57Is it her? No, it's not her.
28:59No, it's not.
28:59Is it Hammond?
29:00You'll be awfully cross when I tell you.
29:02Oh, you will.
29:03Oh, Joan Cross.
29:04Oh, Lord.
29:05Oh, no.
29:07Well, that's it for our 100th programme and for the end of the series.
29:12I hope we'll all meet again, but for the time being, it's goodnight from Judith Jackson, Richard Baker, Robin Ray, Ian Wallace and me, Joseph Cooper.
29:19Enjoy a dreamy soundscape of soporific music to soothe the soul with Scottish composer Erland Cooper, your guide to ultimate calm on BBC Sounds.
29:40Thank you very much.
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