You might win free tickets for this summer’s LUCERNE FESTIVAL if you get the correct answer to a tricky question—and if luck is on your side.

LUCERNE FESTIVAL is raffling off three pairs of free tickets for the Philharmonia Orchestra of London’s concert under Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen on September 9, which features works by Ravel, Debussy, and Prokofiev. In order to be eligible for the raffle, you must choose the one correct answer from the four choices given below. The Philharmonia Orchestra’s program includes Claude Debussy’s “Nocturnes.” The last of these three pieces evokes the seductive song of the Sirens. In keeping with this theme, our question is as follows:

In one of his stories, Franz Kafka writes that the Sirens possessed a weapon even more formidable than their singing—namely, their …

a. Appearance
b. Dance
c. Silence
d. Gossip

Please send the corresponding letter and word that you believe contains the correct answer to the following address: info@lucernefestival.ch

We will randomly select the winners of three pairs of free tickets from those who send in the correct answer. Responses must be received by 30 July 2010. The decision is final.