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