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- From: chrisi@lloyd.Camex.COM (Chris Ischay)
- Subject: Re: HELP: music quiz
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.133036.24372@lloyd.Camex.COM>
- Organization: Camex Inc., Boston MA
- References: <1992Dec22.000824.18082@csis.dit.csiro.au>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:30:36 EST
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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.
-
- Are you sure this isn't for a term paper?
- If you win the quiz, who keeps the prize?
-
- >1. In what opera is there a character Sportin' Life?
-
- Traviata. Alfredo's sporting life occurs mainly off-stage in act 2.
-
- >2. What ballet refers to tennis?
-
- I think you're thinking of Brahms's Rackets 1 through 4.
-
- >3. What music critic was equally distingished as cricket writer?
-
- George Bernard Shaw.
-
- >4. Who wrote a mouvement symphonique entitled `Rugby'?
-
- Ironically, both Debussy and Elgar.
-
- >5. What composer was the greatest chess player of his day?
-
- Consult your Schwann. All artists on the Chesky label qualify.
-
- >6. In what opera does a man have his brother put to death?
-
- Well over half of them. Don't accept Trovatore as an answer here -- cheap
- out.
-
- >7. In what opera does a man take his brother's place in Hades so that the
- > brother can marry the girl they both wanted?
-
- The other half of them.
-
- >8. Who said of whom: `I compose to live; my brother lives to compose'?
-
- I think Tchaikovsky had trouble with his liver too.
-
- >9. Which brothers were simultaneously the heads of the two main conservatories
- > in their country?
-
- Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart.
-
- >10. Which great German composer had a brother who taught the piano in
- > Venezuela?
-
- C'mon. Pianos are too stupid to teach.
-
- >11. Name one composer who murdered his wife.
-
- Charles Boyer in "Gaslight."
-
- >12. Which composer died after wounding himself while conducting?
-
- All of them. That's why Wagner wore gloves.
-
- >13. Which composer was killed
- > (a) in a bicycle accident?
- > (b) by drowning in the English Channel during World War I?
- > (c) at the Siege of Chester after writing music during the Siege of York?
-
- (a)
-
- >14. Which composer was shot because he went out for a smoke?
-
- Lord Chesterfield?
-
- >15. Name a composer of the baroque period who was murdered.
-
- Ockeghem.
-
- >16. THE Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro ... what is the third in
- > the sequence, and who set it as an opera?
-
- Ghosts of Versailles. Paisiello.
-
- >17. What operas are set in : (a) Allemonde
- > (b) Crete
- > (c) Sicily
- > (d) the Moon?
-
- (a) Debussy
- (b) La Minotaur de Crete
- (c) Santuzza
- (d) Excursions of Jules Verne
-
- >18. Which French composer wrote the following, and while writing which opera?:
- > `I have found, and what is more quite spontaneously, a technique which
- > strikes me as fairly new, that is, silence (don't laugh).'
-
- Debussy, while composing the entirely silent "400 Blows."
-
- >19. (a) Which prima donna, engaged to sing in London, married on the journey
- > from Venice the harpsichordist sent to fetch her?
- > (b) Which famous librettist ran a distillery in New York and a milliner's
- > shop in Philadelphia?
-
- Why are there two parts to question 19? Isn't this really cheating?
- Shouldn't (b) really be a different number?
-
- Anyway, (a) is Beecham and (b) is Jack Daniels.
-
- >20. Which castrato:
- > (a) sang the same song every evening to charm the King of Spain?
- > (b) was killed because he boasted of a love affair he had with a lady of
- > noble birth?
- > (c) was allegedly the father of children and recipient of a (lost) scena
- > by Mozart?
-
- Constanze.
-
- >21. Name the links: (a) Lark and Frog
- > (b) Lark and Wasps
- > (c) Chost and Harp
-
- "and"
-
- >22. Whose daughter:
- > (a) inspired a violin concerto (please name both parents) and who was the
- > composer?
- > (b) was called Chou-Chou?
-
- Puccini's daughter Choo-Choo-San. Puccini was fond of trains.
-
- >23. What do Jena and Odense have in common?
-
- Both are brand names of marzipan.
-
- >24. (a) Whose son taught the piano in Lemberg (now Lvov)?
- > (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?
-
- Debussy.
-
- >25. Of which (then young) French composer did Berlioz say: `He knows everything,
- > but lacks inexperience'?
-
- Debussy.
-
- This was easy.
-
- Chris Ischay
- chrisi@camex.com
-