| Question |
Answer |
| Song of the Earth |
Mahler |
| Andre Breton |
founder of Surrealism |
| Giacomo Rubusti |
Tintoretto’s real name (means “little dyer”) |
| Harriet Smithson |
Berlioz’s favorite opera singer |
| Delos |
known as the “wandering island;” birthplace of Artemis and Apollo |
| The Miraculous Mandarin |
Bela Bartok |
| Nereids |
Pontus and Doris are their parents |
| Siege Perilous |
seat at King Arthur’s table; killed everyone who sat there until Galahad |
| Cornaro family |
commissioned the Ecstasy of St. Theresa |
| Radames |
loves Aida |
| Perseus |
founded Mycenae, which has the “Lion Gate” and the “Treasure of Atreus” |
| Madame Carpentier |
painted by Renoir |
| Midas |
king of Phrygia |
| Mercury |
son of the nymph Maia |
| Hanuman |
king of the monkey’s in Ramayana |
| Jason |
reared by the centaur Chiron |
| Colossus of Rhodes |
dedicated to sun god Helios |
| Pelops |
sons were Atreus and Thyestes (both of whom he ate); wife was Hypodamia |
| Seurat |
died in 1891 from pneumonia at age 31 |
| Nureyev |
ballet dancer whose “leap to freedom” in 1961 made him a Soviet defector |
| Tenebrism |
created by Caravaggio whose real name was Michelangelo Merisi |
| “The Jeweler” |
Ira Gershwin’s nickname |
| David Tudor |
first to play 4:33 seconds by Cage in 1952 at Maverick Concert Hall |
| Clarinet |
represents the cat in Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev |
| Cadmus |
sowed dragon’s teeth in the soil to create the ancestors of Thebes |
| Goya |
painted the 3rd of May, 1808 |
| Bartholdi |
sculpted Mt. Rushmore and the shell of the Statue of Liberty |
| Braques |
founded Cubism with Picasso |
| Gilbert Stuart |
painted unfinished portrait of George Washington that appears on the dollar bill |
| Paul Gauguin |
was a Parisian stock-broker before leaving his family to move to Tahiti to paint |
| Laocoon |
warned of the Trojan Horse in The Iliad |
| Charles Ives |
composed Three Places in New England |
| Botticelli |
name means “little barrel” |
| Calypso |
her island is called Ogygia in The Odyssey |
| Ghiberti |
sculpted The Gates of Paradise |
| Purcell |
composed the early English opera Dido and Aeneas |
| Cellini |
sculpted Perseus with the Head of Medusa |
| Goya |
painted The Nude Maja |
| Dukas |
composed The Sorcerer’s Apprentice |
| Borodin |
composed the unfinished Prince Igor |
| Camille Pissaro |
the “Father of Impression” |
| Rigoletto |
hunchback jester created by Verdi |
| Priam |
king of Troy in The Iliad |
| Dorcus |
other name for Tabitha in the Bible |
| Copland |
composed Fanfare for the Common Man |
| Adonis |
killed by a boar |
| Rodin |
sculpted The Burghers of Calais and Balzac |
| Radames |
character in Aida |
| Monet |
painted many pictures of Rouen Cathedral |
| Chagall |
painted I and the Village |
| Massacio |
painted The Tribute Money |
| Camille Sainte Saens |
composed Carnival of the Animals |
| Mies Van der Rohe |
said “less is more” and he led the Bauhaus in the US |
| Walter Gropius |
founded the Bauhaus in Germany and brought it to the US |
| Anchises |
Aeneas’s father in Vergil’s Aeneid |
| Calisto |
turned into a bear by Hera |
| Kandinsky |
member of “The Blue Rider,” or Der Blaue Reiter movement |
| Da Vinci |
painted Madonna of the Rocks |
| Schoenberg |
created the 12-Tone System of music |
| Myron |
sculpted the Discobolus (“The Discuss Thrower”) |
| Haydn |
composed the London Symphony |
| The Moonlight Sonata |
Beethoven inspiration was a trip to Lake Lucerne in Switzerland |
| Caravaggio |
painted The Calling of St. Matthew |
| Steinway |
makes pianos |
| Samuel Barber |
composed Adagio for Strings which is the theme for the movie Platoon |
| Bologna |
sculpted The Abduction of the Sabine Women |
| “The Anvil Chorus” |
comes from Il Travatore |
| The Nose |
composed by Dmitri Shostakovich |
| Bauhaus |
began in 1919, in Weimar, Germany |
| Goya |
painted Saturn Devouring His Children |
| Beethoven |
6th Symphony is called the “Pastoral” |
| Cassandra |
warned of the Trojan Horse |
| The Card Players |
painted by Cezanne |
| Clio |
Muse of History |
| Manet |
painted Luncheon on the Grass, which has a nude woman in it |
| Gilbert and Sullivan |
British comic musical pair from the 20th century |
| Brunelleschi |
designed dome of Santa Maria del Fiore church in Florence (called the “Duomo”) |
| Hero |
female lover of Leander; swam the Hellespont every night to reach her until he drowned |
| Lethe |
the “river of forgetfulness” in Hell according to Dante |
| The Titan Symphony |
Mahler |
| “Descent from the Cross” |
P. P. Rubens |
| “Hog’s Killing a Rattlesnake” and “Baptism in Kansas” |
Curry |
| Mt. Parnassus |
home of the Muses |
| “Madonna of the Gold Finch” |
Raphael |
| “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp” |
Rembrandt |
| “Camelot” (the musical) |
Lerner & Lowe |
| Verdi opera about a hunchback |
“Rigoletto” |
| “Damnation of Faust” |
Berlioz |
| “Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel” |
Schubert |
| Most famous student of Cimabue, painted the Arena chapel |
Giotto |
| “Dream of Gerontius” |
Elgar |
| “Turandot” |
Puccini opera |
| George Bellows |
prominent artist of the Ashcan School of painting |
| Austrian painter of The Kiss |
Klimt |
| Mount of Olives |
location of the Garden of Gethsemane in the Bible |
| “Beethoven’s 10th” |
Brahms |
| “Joy of Life” |
Matisse |
| The Freeshooter (?) |
Carl Maria Von Weber |
| “Madonna of the Harpies” |
Andrea del Sarto |
| Spring Symphony |
Schumann |
| Titan Symphony |
Mahler |
| In the Steppes of Central Asia and Prince Igor |
Borodin |
| Von Rothbert & Siegfried |
“Swan Lake” by Tchaikovsky |
| “Judgment of Paris” |
Reubens |
| Iapetus |
father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas |
| “Music of Changes” and “Roratorio” |
Cage |
| “Microcosmos” and “Cantata Profana” |
Bela Bartok |
| Zacharias |
father of John the Baptist (Elizabeth was his mother; murdered by Herod) |
| Eisenstein |
main character in Der Fliedermaus (“The Bat”) by Strauss |
| Charles Wilson Peale |
painted many portraits of Revolutionary heroes, including Washington |
| “Rite of Spring” |
1912 ballet by Stravinsky; choreography by Nijinsky |
| 1445, Florence |
son of a tanner; studied under Fra Lippo Lippi = Botticelli |
| NYC Central Park |
designed by Olmsted |
| Orfeo |
Monteverdi (first opera) |
| “The Toreador Song” |
most famous song in Carmen by Bizet sung by Escamilio |
| “A Lincoln Portrait” |
Copland |
| Sedalia, MO |
Scott Joplin |
| Andre Segovia |
guitar virtuoso |
| Zadek |
Alban Berg |
| “Syndics of the Cloth Guild’ |
Rembrandt |
| Church and Cole |
members of Hudson River School |
| Kandinsky |
member of The Blue Rider |
| Nestor |
wisest at Trojan War |
| Action |
becomes a stag |
| Ives |
Three Places in New England |
| “William Tell” |
Rossini |
| “The London Symphonies” |
Haydn |
| Discobolus |
Myron’s discus thrower statue |
| “Calling of St. Matthew” |
Caravaggio |
| “Turandot” |
Puccini opera about Chinese princess |
| Ashcan School |
George Bellows was a member |
| Elgar |
“Dream of Gerontius” |
| Beethoven’s 6th |
“Pastoral Symphony” |
| Job & Pilgrim’s Progress |
R. Vaughan Williams |
| “Cavaleria Rusticana” |
Mascagni |
| “The Oxbow” |
T. Cole |
| TWA Terminal & Gateway Arch |
Saarinen |
| “Burial at Ornans” & “The Stonebreakers” |
Courbet |
| “Death on a Pale Horse” |
Benjamin West |
| “La Grande Odalisque” |
Ingres |
| “Third Class Carriage” |
Daumier |
| Florestan, Leanore, Don Fernando |
in “Fidelio” |
| Bull ridden by Shiva |
Mandi |
| Swan ridden by Brahma |
Hamsa |
| “Massacre at Chios” and “Dante & Virgil in Hell” |
Delacroix (“son” of Talleyrand) |
| “Human Condition” |
Magritte |
| Statue of Liberty |
created by Bartholdi |
| “Hymns from the Rig Veda” |
Holst |
| “Nixon in China” |
Adams |
| “Fanfare for the Common Man” |
Copland |
| “Abduction from the Seraglio” |
set in Turkey |
| “Aida” |
set in Egypt |
| “Presto” tempo; Andante tempo |
Italian for “to go” |
| “Full Fathom Five” |
Jackson Pollock |
| Gaudi |
“Church of the Sacred Family” / “La Sagrada Familia” in Barcelona |
| “Anvil Chorus” |
from Verdi’s Il Travatore |
| Lincoln Memorial Statue |
created by Daniel Chester French |
| Hercules |
recovered Guryion’s cattle |
| Count Almaviva |
character in Marriage of Figaro |
| Cadmus sowed dragon’s teeth |
founded Thebes |
| “Madame X” |
J.S. Sargent |
| “Cosi fan Tutte” |
Mozart |
| Adonis |
turned into a flower |
| “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle” |
Bartok |
| Durer = Da Vinci at the North (woodcuts) |
|
| Breughel |
“Tower of Babel” & “Peasant Wedding” |
| Styx |
means “hateful” |
| Steinway |
made pianos |
| “Adagio for Strings” |
Barber |
| “London” & “Farewell Symphonies” |
Haydn |
| “Burghers of Calais” |
Rodin |
| 1875 Opera |
“Carmen” (set in Spain) |
| “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” |
Dukas |
| “Garden of Earthly Delights” |
Bosch |
| “Isle of the Dead” |
Rachmaninoff |
| “Dying Slave” |
Michelangelo sculpture |
| “Return of Ulysses” |
Monteverdi |
| Carlo Moderno |
obscure Baroque artist |
| “The Childhood of Christ” |
Berlioz |
| “Trout Quintet” |
Schubert |
| “Leningrad Symphony” |
Shostakovich |
| Estonian composer |
Part |
| Bayreuth festival |
for Wagner |
| “Dumbarton Oaks” concerto |
Stravinsky |
| “Elegy for Dylan Thomas” and “Elegy for JKF” |
Stravinsky |
| “Appalachian Spring” |
commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and choreographer Martha Graham |
| Calaph |
prince in “Turandot”; Liu |
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