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- Subject: Re: HELP: music quiz
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.143746.10975@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 14:37:46 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.000824.18082@csis.dit.csiro.au>
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- In article <1992Dec22.000824.18082@csis.dit.csiro.au>, 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.
- This sounds dubiously like a new variation on the old "do my homework for me"
- post, but what the hell, it's Christmas.
- > 1. In what opera is there a character Sportin' Life?
- Porgy and Bess. (That's the easy one.)
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- > 3. What music critic was equally distingished as cricket writer?
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- John Arlott. (I think!)
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- > 12. Which composer died after wounding himself while conducting?
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- Lully
- > 20. Which castrato:
- > (a) sang the same song every evening to charm the King of Spain?
- Farinelli.
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- > 21. Name the links: (a) Lark and Frog
- Probably Haydn
- > (b) Lark and Wasps
- Vaughan Williams (Lark ascending and Wasps Overture.)
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- Not a lot of help....
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