Karl Miller poses the musical question: >And for ten points and a chance at the new Honda.... > >Name the composer who has a passage of an orchestra tuning up in one of >his works for orchestra? The answer I was looking for... Rodion Shchedrin: Symphony No.2 It is a group of Preludes for Orchestra. One of the preludes features the orchestra tuning. Ok, so it was pretty obscure. And speaking of Preludes for orchestra, (I will give a hint with this one), what French composer, noted for writing one of the most familiar of all themes used for a television program, also wrote a set of Preludes for Orchestra? (no orchestra tuning in this piece...just some brilliant music...a work premiered by Bernstein...a piece that sounds like bits and pieces of Sacre) Karl