Loaded Questions 3/30/23 - Classical Music
What's opera, doc?
Happy Thursday! Hope your day has been going swimmingly. We’ve got classical for our set today. If you ever need to see the good in humanity, check out the comments to a classical work on YouTube. It’s always just casual fans saying how amazing it is we are listening to the work in [insert year here], and extreme fans comparing how the recording sounds slightly different than another recording by a different philharmonic, and such. It’s nice to see. Anyway, enjoy the set today!
1. What fashion company, named for Signor Salvatore, is one of the largest dancewear companies in the US, known for its leotards and especially their ballet shoes?
2. Mozart's wife Constanze Mozart was a member of family that included what other composer?
3. What name is given to the instrumental composition in Handel's "Messiah" which introduces shepherds? This word takes its name from a type of shepherd-musician that played music in Rome at the time.
4. The last section of Mahler's Symphony for a Thousand shares its name with what Berlioz opera?
5. What German word meaning "quite small" names the smallest instrument in the recorder family?
6. What play by Goethe had its music written by Beethoven, including a famous overture?
7. The motet "Spem in alium" is the most famous work by what English choral composer, who lived in the 16th century?
8. Wilcke was the maiden name of what composer, best known for a pair of manuscript notebooks she wrote?
9. A work for choir and chamber ensemble, what composer's work "Anthracite Fields" won her the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music? She is also the composer of "Fire in my mouth" and "Steel Hammer".
10. Judith opens seven doors in what one-act opera of 1918?
11. Bellini and Donizetti are composers that wrote during what period of Italian opera, marked by an elegant style of singing characterized by beautiful tone? Involving both portamentos and extensive use of messa di voce, Maria Callas repopularized this style in the 20th century.
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1. What fashion company, named for Signor Salvatore, is one of the largest dancewear companies in the US, known for its leotards and especially their ballet shoes?
Capezio
2. Mozart's wife Constanze Mozart was a member of family that included what other composer?
Carl Maria von Weber
3. What name is given to the instrumental composition in Handel's "Messiah" which introduces shepherds? This word takes its name from a type of shepherd-musician that played music in Rome at the time.
Pifa
4. The last section of Mahler's Symphony for a Thousand shares its name with what Berlioz opera?
The Damnation of Faust
5. What German word meaning "quite small" names the smallest instrument in the recorder family?
Garklein
6. What play by Goethe had its music written by Beethoven, including a famous overture?
Egmont
7. The motet "Spem in alium" is the most famous work by what English choral composer, who lived in the 16th century?
Thomas Tallis
8. Wilcke was the maiden name of what composer, best known for a pair of manuscript notebooks she wrote?
Anna Magdalena Bach
9. A work for choir and chamber ensemble, what composer's work "Anthracite Fields" won her the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music? She is also the composer of "Fire in my mouth" and "Steel Hammer".
Julia Wolfe
10. Judith opens seven doors in what one-act opera of 1918?
Bluebeard's Castle by Bela Bartok
11. Bellini and Donizetti are composers that wrote during what period of Italian opera, marked by an elegant style of singing characterized by beautiful tone? Involving both portamentos and extensive use of messa di voce, Maria Callas repopularized this style in the 20th century.
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