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Across 2. Alluring aquatic songstresses, suggested in Debussy’s “Nocturnes” 8. Stravinsky ballet after god of music, leader of the Muses 11. Peggy Glanville-Hicks opera after Homer heroine, by way of Robert Graves 13. Tormentors of blind oracle Phinneus in one-act Marc Blitzstein opera 14. Underworld interloper in work for narrator and orchestra by George Walker 17. Moross & Latouche musical that recasts “The Iliad” in Pacific Northwest (3 words) 19. Godly Mozart symphony 22. Monteverdi hero, earliest opera in the active repertoire (in Italian) 23. One-eyed admirer of Handel’s Galatea, blinded by Homer’s Odysseus 25. Strauss heroine, Zeus showers her with gold, but she prefers Midas’ touch 28. Michael Praetorius collection named for Muse of dance 30. Northern composer of “The Oceanides,” named for Mediterranean sea nymphs 32. Barber vengeance ballet of woman scorned 33. Saint-Saëns sun god son, poor charioteer 35. Detroit organization that fosters Black and Latino musicians, or winged, human-headed lion 38. Scored “Jason and the Argonauts” 40. Charpentier opera about classical hunter, “hounded” when he espies goddess Diane 43. Most powerful musician at court of Louis XIV, composer of mythological operas 45. Double reed instrument played by satyr Marsyas 46. Kaija Saariaho meditation on Greek hunter preserved as constellation 47. Satie ballet about Roman messenger of the gods, “The Adventures of _______” 48. Snake-haired monster, title of raucous Christopher Rouse composition

Down 1. Holst heavenly bodies named for Roman gods 3. Symphonic poem named by Lera Auerbach for son who passes too close to the sun 4. Frederick Converse subject after Keats poem, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever…” 5. Tannhäuser love goddess 6. Following Aristophanes’ “The Wasps,” provided incidental music for three plays by Euripides 7. Author of “Metamorphoses,” inspired 12 programmatic symphonies by Dittersdorf 9. Handsome lad seduced by Zeus through the beauty of spring in Schubert song after Goethe 10. Half-bull, half man, title character of Birtwistle opera and Carter ballet 12. Subject of Liszt symphonic poem, truth is in his lyre 15. Stravinsky opera-oratorio about Theban mama’s boy 16. Indentured strongman of Saint-Saëns’ “Omphale’s Spinning Wheel” 18. Hangs on to Hope in Stacy Garrop’s “Mythology Symphony” 20. Rescued from sea monster by Perseus, subject of symphonic poem by Augusta Holmès 21. Liberator of “Ariane” in ballet by Albert Roussel 23. Romeo Cascarino ballet about artist who falls in love with his own creation 24. Nielsen overture after sun charioteer 26. Stravinsky melodrama about goddess of spring, wife of Pluto 27. Pan pipe 29. Scriabin synesthetic Titan, “poem of fire” for piano and color organ 31. Homeric given name of African American composer Kay, in the Roman 34. Randy, pipe-playing fertility god, or a skillet 36. Strauss heroine abandoned on isle of Naxos 37. Soprano star of Pasolini’s “Medea” 39. Debussy afternoon napper 41. The face that launched a thousand ships, ideal beauty in Faust operas 42. Moulin Rouge dance music, from Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld” 44. Lover of Cesar Franck’s Psyche, Cupid to the Romans