{"id":422,"date":"2007-08-24T11:51:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T19:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/24\/back-to-school-quiz\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:13:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:13:55","slug":"back-to-school-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/24\/back-to-school-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"back to school quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soho the Dog<\/a> has posted his back to school classical music quiz, which I’ll reproduce here (and give my own answers).\u00c2\u00a0 Remember, there’s no such thing as a dumb answer, just a dumb person!<\/p>\n

1. What’s the best quotation of a piece of music within another piece of music?<\/strong>
\nBeethoven’s Moonlight<\/em> Sonata in the last movement of Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata<\/p>\n

2. Name the best classical crossover album ever made.<\/strong>
\nYo-yo Ma’s Soul of the Tango<\/em><\/p>\n

3. Great piece with a terrible title.
\n<\/strong>John Adams’ The Wound Dresser<\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. If you had to choose: Benjamin Britten or Michael Tippett?
\n<\/strong>Britten all the way, baby.<\/p>\n

5. Who’s your favorite spouse of a composer\/performer? (Besides your own.)
\n<\/strong>Richard Strauss’ wife Anna de Ahna, she must have been a piece of work!<\/p>\n

6. Terrible piece with a great title.
\n<\/strong>Beethoven’s Creatures of Prometheus<\/em>, I still can’t get over my disappointment upon first hearing this work after being excited by the title.<\/p>\n

7. What’s the best use of a classical warhorse in a Hollywood movie?
\n<\/strong>The Dies Irae<\/em> of Mozart’s Requiem<\/em> in Amadeus<\/em>.
\n
\n8. Name the worst classical crossover album ever made.
\n<\/strong>Anything by that artistic abortion Il Divo<\/em> – ooh, I think I threw up a little in my mouth…<\/p>\n

9. If you had to choose: Sam Cooke or Marvin Gaye?
\n<\/strong>If the stars align just right, who needs to choose – shuffle ’em both in the iPod!<\/em><\/p>\n

10. Name a creative type in a non-musical medium who would have been a great composer.
\n<\/strong>Mikhail Baryshnikov – imagine if he did the same for virtuosity and extension of the vocabulary of dance in music!
\n
\nEXTRA CREDIT:<\/p>\n

For opera nerds:<\/em> If you had to choose:
\na) Lawrence Tibbett or Robert Merrill?
\nb) Amelita Galli-Curci or Lily Pons?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I pass on this one.<\/p>\n


\nFor early-music nerds:<\/em> Name a completely and hopelessly historically un<\/em>informed recording that you nevertheless love.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s recording of the Bach\/Stokowski Air on the G-string.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soho the Dog has posted his back to school classical music quiz, which I’ll reproduce here (and give my own answers).\u00c2\u00a0 Remember, there’s no such thing as a dumb answer, just a dumb person! 1. What’s the best quotation of a piece of music within another piece of music? 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