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- From: rwilmer@carrier.mitre.org (R. Wilmer)
- Subject: Re: HELP: music quiz
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- References: <1992Dec22.000824.18082@csis.dit.csiro.au>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:09:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.000824.18082@csis.dit.csiro.au> tsui@csis.dit.csiro.au (Kenneth Tsui) writes:
- >
- >
- >
- >I need help to answer the following for a music quiz. Some of the questions
- >are quite interesting. I'll post the answers when they come out in Feburary.
- >
- >Thanks.
- >
- >
- >1. In what opera is there a character Sportin' Life?
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- Porgy and Bess
- >
- >4. Who wrote a mouvement symphonique entitled `Rugby'?
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- Hindemith
- >
- >6. In what opera does a man have his brother put to death?
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- Il Trovatore
- >
- >
- >13. Which composer was killed
- > (a) in a bicycle accident?
-
- Ernest Chausson
- >
- >
- >16. THE Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro ... what is the third in
- > the sequence, and who set it as an opera?
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- The Opera is Cherubin by Massenet. Is the play La Rencontre Imprevue?
- >
- >17. What operas are set in : (a) Allemonde
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- Debussy's Pelleas et Mellisande
- > (b) Crete
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- Mozart's Idomeneo
- > (c) Sicily
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- Verdi's Les Vepres Siciliennes
- and Bellini's Il Pirata
- > (d) the Moon?
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- Orff's Der Mond?
- >
- >
- >19.
- > (b) Which famous librettist ran a distillery in New York and a milliner's
- > shop in Philadelphia?
-
- Lorenzo da Ponte? He was a real-life Figaro.
- >
- >20. Which castrato:
- > (a) sang the same song every evening to charm the King of Spain?
-
- I don't know, but I suppose the king's apparent short memory span was
- another example of Spanish Hapsburg feeblemindedness caused by inbreeding.
-
- >21. Name the links: (a) Lark and Frog
- Aristophanes? L'enfant et les Sortileges?
- > (b) Lark and Wasps
- Someone gets stung by a wasp in Suor Angelica. Is there a lark there too?
- > (c) Chost and Harp
- Do you mean ghost? Lucia di Lammermoor enters to a harp accompaniment
- and sings of a ghost.
- >
- >
- >24.
- > (b) Which director of the Paris Conservatoire is said to have travelled in
- > on the Metro, got out a stop early, and taken a taxi, to keep up
- > appearances?
-
- I don't know, but I have done that same thing because of absent-mindedly
- getting off at the wrong Metro stop, and then taking a taxi to avoid
- being late (or even later). As I remember, you could get off at
- ``Place d'Europe'' or ``Gare St. Lazare'' for the Paris Conservatoire.
-
- >
- >25. Of which (then young) French composer did Berlioz say: `He knows everything,
- > but lacks inexperience'?
- >
-
- It certainly would have been true of Saint-Saens, once he got past
- his fourth birthday.
-
- Richard
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