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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: HELP: music quiz
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.172108.510@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:21:08 GMT
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- tsui@csis.dit.csiro.au (Kenneth Tsui) writes:
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- : 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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- Gershwin's Porgy and Bess?
- :
- : 2. What ballet refers to tennis?
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- Debussy's Jeux.
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- : 3. What music critic was equally distingished as cricket writer?
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- Sir Neville Cardus (my hero!)
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- : 4. Who wrote a mouvement symphonique entitled `Rugby'?
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- Arthur Honegger.
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- Pass on the opera stuff...
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- : 9. Which brothers were simultaneously the heads of the two main conservatories
- : in their country?
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- Anton and Nikolas Rubinstein?
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- : 10. Which great German composer had a brother who taught the piano in
- : Venezuela?
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- : 11. Name one composer who murdered his wife.
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- : 12. Which composer died after wounding himself while conducting?
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- Jean-Baptiste Lully.
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- : 13. Which composer was killed
- : (a) in a bicycle accident?
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- Ernest Chausson.
- : (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?
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- b) and c) no idea.
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- : 14. Which composer was shot because he went out for a smoke?
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- Anton (von) Webern.
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- : 15. Name a composer of the baroque period who was murdered.
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- Vivaldi. He wasn't? Well I know plenty of people who'd be only too glad...
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- ENough of the opera already....
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- : 21. Name the links: (a) Lark and Frog
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- String quartets by Haydn.
- : (b) Lark and Wasps
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- Lark Ascending and Wasps incidental music (to Aristophanes) by Vaughan
- Williams.
- : (c) Chost and Harp
- Pardon?
- :
- : 22. Whose daughter:
- : (a) inspired a violin concerto (please name both parents) and who was the
- : composer?
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- Manon Gropius, daughter of Walter Gropius (of Bauhuas fame) and
- Alma-Schinder-Mahler-Gropius etc..
- : (b) was called Chou-Chou?
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- Debussy - she of 'la boite'.
- :
- : 23. What do Jena and Odense have in common?
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- Discovered symphonies? Jena i]atrrib originally to Beethoven, Odense
- still to Mozart.
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- Can't help you with the rest.
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- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
- Phone: +1 604 370 4452
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