Author: vinyl1

Solving time: 75 minutes Music: Mingus Ah Um As you can see, I was quite slow on this one, and I suspect it is at least moderately difficult. There was definitely some clever stuff that … Read more “TIMES 25928 – The City of My Ancestors”

Solving time: Not recorded Music: None, golf on TV again. I worked this puzzle while watching the last 7 holes of the Frys.com on TV, so no time. I would watch a hole or two, … Read more “Times 25916 – Check your grooves…er, make that Groves!”

Solving time: 43 minutes Music: Shostakovich, Symphony #6, Boult/LPO It may be just me, but it seems like the puzzles are getting harder under the new editor – no more Easy Monday! I was off … Read more “Times 25904 – No, not the one from Winsbury….”

Solving time: 58 minutes Music: Prokofiev, Sonata No. 6, Pogorelich This was a rather strange solving experience. I put in a few long ones in the first few minutes, thinking it was going to be … Read more “Times 25892 – OK, your majesty, now where’s my cheque?”

Solving time: 39 minutes Music: John Coltrane, Giant Steps This should have been a very easy puzzle, but I was not on the wavelength at all. I wrote in a bunch of obvious answers at … Read more “Times 25886 – The pulse of the conversation….”

Solving time: 27 minutes Music: Mozart, Marriage of Figaro Highlights, Giulini/Wachter/Schwartzkopf/Cossotto/Taddei/Moffo/Philharmonia Orchestra This Monday offering was a piece of cake for an academic sort like yours truly….how could you be listening to Mozart and not … Read more “Times 25868 – The road up and down is one and the same….”

Solving time: 60 minutes, with pauses Music: Beethoven, Symphony #2, Monteux/LSO I made a fine mess of this puzzle, with complicated theories that turned out to be totally wrong. If only I could be sure … Read more “Times 25856 – Features of clerical cut!”

Solving time: 38 minutes Music: Thompson, The Plow that Broke the Plain, Stokowski/Symphony of the Air This should have been an easy one, but I was scribbling away and put in a wrong answer without … Read more “Times 25838 – Checking my blog, or not?”

Solving time: 58 minutes Music: Resphigi, Ancient Airs and Dances, Dorati/HPhil This puzzle should not have taken as long as it did. I put in most of it in twenty minutes, only to get most … Read more “Times 25826 – Off to an easy start….”

Solving time: 75 minutes Music: Mozart, Violin Concertos, Grumiaux/Davis/LSO/ I found this rather hard, but I suspect most of the usual gang will not find it that difficult. I wasn’t sharp at solving it, and … Read more “Times 25820 – Can we make that three concertos?”