K C

A solo trumpet was playing, the ending was something like

f effc a gff

(spaces after a note indicating the note is held longer), with the e as the lowest note and the c as the highest less than an octave above it.

I know that the German government was boycotting games held in the Ukraine, but now that they've advanced they've earned themselves a quarterfinal match against Greece in Gdansk, Poland. So will Germany be sending anyone from their government to the match? If so, who? Is there any chance Angela Merkel will be stuck sitting next to a Greek leader for 2 hours?

The BBC has just announced the lineup for their annual series of Promenade concerts, or "Proms" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms ). For those of you not familiar with the concerts, this is anywhere from 1 to 3 concerts worth of music a day for 2 months -- 84 concerts in all. What's more, every single one of them is broadcast on Radio 3, and made available to listen to on demand via the internet for a week after the concert.

Absolutely phenomenal (thank you British Taxpayers who I mooch off of every summer when I listen to this!), but at the same time overwhelming. Every summer some of the music falls through the cracks for me when I just don't have time to listen to it before it disappears a week later.

So I'm curious: Of the concerts listed, which one(s) would you put under: "Make a point of listening to this one?"

The main melody goes something like

B B B B a g g f# e e g B E E E E D C C B a a B C B C B D# C B B a g g f# e f# f# f# f# g f# e e e e,

where I am using lower case letters to denote note below the starting pitch (so the entire melody fits inside one octave from e to E). All notes are nearly equal in length, though I've heard it with some flexibility in tempo (e.g. slowing down prior to the high E's and at the first B C).

Thanks in advance, and my apologies if this falls closer to folk music than classical (I'm not sure enough about the source of the melody to know in which category to post it).

There's an old saying that goes back to the time of Shakespeare: "All that glitters is not gold". Tolkien reversed it in his "Lord of the Rings" books, writing: "All that is gold does not glitter". I'm curious about the choice of word order in such a phrase. As I see it, there's two meanings you could (hypothetically) want to express with such a phrase.

-Every object which satisfies property A (glitters) fails to satisfy property B (is gold).

or

-There exist objects which satisfy property A (glitters) but fail to satisfy property B (is gold).

If I just heard the sentence "All that is A is not B" in isolation, I would have assumed the former meaning. But it's pretty clear in this case that the latter is what is intended. So why word it this way instead of "Not all that glitters is gold"?

I heard a piece earlier today while eating lunch that I'd like to know a bit more about. What I know: The piece is either a violin concerto or has a prominent solo violin part. To the best of my knowledge it's classical instead of a soundtrack (the rest of the music playing at the cafe sounded like a "best of classical" CD). The main theme of the excerpt I heard went roughly

E E DCEGD ED E F F EDFAE FE,

where the C is the lowest note, all other notes are in the octave above that C, and the spacing corresponds roughly to the length of the notes (so 2 long notes, a group of 5, etc.). I don't have a video or recording or anything like that. Sorry!