STEINER

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A classical music word-puzzle by ALLAN RAE

 

Emma Roberto Steiner (1856-1929) was an American composer and conductor. She was one of the first women in the United States to make a living from conducting, and did so at more than six thousand performances during her lifetime. Steiner wrote hundreds of musical pieces, including seven operas. The Metropolitan Opera held a special performance of her works in 1925 - the last time a woman would conduct there until 1976.

Steiner is also the surname of the Austrian-born composer and conductor Maximilian Raoul Steiner (1888-1971), better known as Max Steiner. After working in England and mainland Europe from 1907, he moved to America in 1914, where he composed more than three hundred film scores, including, famously, King Kong.

Steiner is just one of the many words hidden in my latest word puzzle, below, provided here for your Sunday entertainment, similar to those which I've published here over the last few months.

Just to remind you, with these puzzles, words can be hidden vertically, horizontally, diagonally and in retrograde.

The solution is complex as many letters are used multiple times, making these puzzles very dense, so only marking a line 'stroke' through the word is necessary. (Many commercial puzzles specify that each word should be circled when found; on these hand drawn puzzles, however, it is necessary just to stroke.)

'Steiner' find-a-word puzzle, © Allan Rae

My 'Find a word' puzzle Steiner is shown above. How many words can you find? If the puzzle is not visible, or if you can't see the letters in the puzzle clearly, then please click here. All of the words below are hidden in the puzzle above. If you can't see the list of words clearly, please click here. You may find it useful to print out the puzzle and the word list, so that you can mark the squares with a stroke and mark the words that you've already found.

It's also worth noticing that, for words containing accented characters: Angélique (the 1927 opera by French composer Jacques Ibert, 1890-1962), Grøndahl (the Danish composer, conductor and violinist Launy Grøndahl, 1886-1960) and Varèse (the French composer Edgard Varèse, 1883-1965), the letters are shown in the puzzle without the accents.

The list of hidden words in Allan Rae's word puzzle, 'Steiner'

Good luck! Please let me know how you get on, via the Classical Music Daily contact page. You might also wish to suggest words - composers, compositions, musical terms etc - for a future puzzle.

Copyright © 26 November 2023 Allan Rae,
Calgary, Canada

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15 December 2023

Dear Torbjorn,

Many thanks for contacting us.

I've received a reply from Allan Rae, who has asked me to thank you for your interest and observations. He tries to avoid three and four letter words when creating these puzzles unless he is stuck, as using them increases the chance of duplicates appearing. It has never been his intent to enter two words (such as TEMPO and UPTEMPO) into the puzzle box, but he thinks that it might be a good idea, although it would make the puzzles more complicated.

Best wishes,

Keith Bramich

 

5 December 2023

Dear Mr Rae,

I have successfully completed this puzzle, and have found five more music-related words not included in your published word list:

AHO
KEY
LARK
SHOW
TEMPO

I also spotted that the word STEIN appears twice in this puzzle.

I have a question for you about the rules of this type of puzzle: can the letters be used twice in the same direction to find a word? So, for example, is TEMPO allowed when it already forms part of the word UPTEMPO?

Yours sincerely,

Torbjorn Mendel

 

There are more games, puzzles and quizzes here and more articles about the United States of America here.

The background image on this page has been derived from a 1982 US National Parks Service photo of Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge, spanning New York City's East River, by American Photographer John T Lowe (born 1947).

 

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