Skating, Sledding & Slominski
1. Nicolas Slominsky, noted musician, author and musicologist was born in 1894 at St. Petersburg in what country?
Russia
Japan
Canada
Okrahoma! & other Japanese musicals
2. Rodgers & Hammerstein wrote Oklahoma! What great team wrote the Mikado?
Starsky & Hutch
Gilbert & Sullivan
Larry, Moe & Curly
Shootout at the Robert Shaw Chorale
3. While Robert Shaw conducted the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for many years, what sort of ensemble is Shaw best known for?
Percussion
Accordian
Choral
Overture & underture
4. What well known overture was used for the theme to The Lone Ranger?
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
Rossini's William Tell Overture
Copland's Quiet City
Roger Waters Quilter
5. Roger Quilter is best known for his many sensitive and effortless songs. What country is he from?
Great Britian
Japan
Uganda
Chee Yun hair smells wonderful
6. String player Chee Yun records on the Denon label...including works by Paganini, Franck and Debussy. What instrument does she play?
Tuba
Oboe
Violin
Webster's unabridged viola
7. What does a bridge do on a viola?
holds the strings above the fingerboard
adjusts tuning
nothing much
A Bass Bridge Too Far
8. The Bass line is traditionally which part?
top
middle
bottom
Speckled Trout Quintet
9. What is Schubert's Trout Quintet based on?
A fishing trip
His song, the Trout
Eating trout in Vienna
The Sixth Symphony Sense
10. Beethoven's programmatic, outdoor Sixth Symphony is known as...
The Pastorale
City Lights
Tales from the Vienna woods
Riki Tiki TeKanawa
11. Dame Kiri TeKanawa is known throughout the world for her...
beautiful voice
mild-manner temper & tempos
dancing on the ceiling
You're better man than I am, Gustav Mahler Din
12. Gustav Mahler wrote many works, including songs and symphonies. What was his other profession?
Airline pilot
Symphony conductor
Television star
It was the best of time signatures, the worst of time signatures
13. Leonard Bernstein's America, from West Side Story, alternates two time signatures...what is this compositional device called?
multi-meter
hard
easy
She worked hard for the motet
14. What langauge was used for the first motets, written between 1250 and 1400?
Pig latin
Latin
Ricky Martin
Schubert's Unfurnished Symphony in a flat
15. Franz Schubert's uncompleted Eighth Symphony in B minor is nicknamed what?
Tragic
Unfinished
The Great
Carl Mucked that performance
16. Kapellmeister at the Berlin Opera, what was Carl Muck's job in Salzburg and Prague?
Conductor
Horse whisperer
Train conductor
Waltz, Opus 64Mb of RAM
17. While Polish composer Frederic Chopin wrote several songs and chamber music, what was his primary instrument that he composed extensively for?
accordian
viola
piano
First & Second helpings of violins
18. Traditionally, which violin section plays the melody?
Violas
Seconds
Firsts
Leaning Joan Tower of Piza
19. American composer Joan Tower has written many works and plays in what chamber ensemble?
Da Capo Chamber Players
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
The Beatles
Anne-Sophie's Choice
20. Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter hails from what European country?
Japan
Germany
Australia
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