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Question | Answer |
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He is the chief advisor to Ivan the Terrible; He killed Ivan's younger son, Dimitri | Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky |
The dance Salome did for King Herod | Dance of the Seven Veils |
Rent is based upon this opera | La Boheme |
"Rent" music and lyrics by | Jonathon Larson |
Madame Butterfly is based upon a play by | David Belasco |
What happens in the end to Cio-Cio-San | stabs herself with her father's dagger after giving her son, Trouble, to Pinkerton and new wife Kate |
opera setting in Nagasaki | Madame Butterfly--Puccini |
Four extremely poor friends in the Latin Quarter of Paris | La Boheme--Puccini |
William Tell is based on a play by | Friedrich von Schiller |
Both the Barber of Seville and the Marriage of Figaro were based upon his plays | Pierre de Beaumarchais |
The son sets the house on fire as a signal for the Swiss to rise in revolt in this opera | William Tell--Rossini |
Barber of Seville is the prequel to | the Marriage of Figaro |
The third Figaro play in the Beaumarchais trio | The Guilty Mother |
Her lover, Don Jose, stabs her. She loves ______ | Carmen loves Escamillo |
Commissioned for the opening of the Suez Canal | Aida--Verdi |
Because it was finished late, Aida premiered at the opening of this place | the Cairo Opera House |
She is a young gypsy who works in a cigarette factory in Seville | Carmen--Bizet |
opera--love story of famous opera singer Floria _____ and painter/activist Mario Cavaradossi | Tosca--Puccini |
The Horah is danced to | Hava Nagila |
Opera setting--Kingdom of Naples' control of Rome is threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy | Tosca |
Set in seedy Kit-Kat Club in Weimar Berlin | Cabaret by Kander |
"Wilkommen" sung by risque' Master of Ceremonies | Cabaret (sung by Joel Grey in the movie) |
Sally Bowles falls in love with Cliff Bradshaw | Cabaret |
Based on Isherwood's "Goodbye to Berlin" | Cabaret |
Tevye in Tsarist Russia. Family forced to leave their village, Anatevka because they are Jews. | Fiddler on the Roof |
"The Bottle Dance" "Matchmaker" "Sunrise, Sunset" "If I Were a Rich Man" | Fiddler on the Roof |
"Edelweiss" "Do-Re-Mi" "My Favorite Things" "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" | The Sound of Music by Rogers and Hammerstein |
"Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" "The Surrey With the Fringe on the Top" | Oklahoma by Rogers and Hammerstein |
The Rake's Progress composer | Igor Stravinsky |
Ballet about a traditional Russian puppet made of straw with a body made of sawdust who comes to life and develops emotions | Petrushka by Stravinsky |
He fled Nazi persecution (1933) moving from Berlin to LA where he completed "A Survivor from Warsaw" | Schoenberg |
Unfinished opera, "Moses and Aron" composer | Schoenberg |
"El Salon Mexico" and "Billy the Kid" composer | Copland |
He wrote the book,"What's to Listen For in Music" | Copland |
"Lincoln Portrait" featuring spoken portions of Lincoln's writings | Copland |
the Shaker hymn, Simple Gifts is within this ballet | Appalachian Spring by Copland |
Composer of the opera, "The Love for Three Oranges and the ballet, "The Prodigal Son" | Prokofiev |
Stalin denounced him as decadent. They died on the same day, March 5 | Prokofiev |
Thirteenth Symphony (Babi Yar) and Seventh Symphony (Leningrad) composer | Shostakovich |
Babi Yar (by this composer )based on a poem that condemned antisemitism in Germany and the USSR | Shostakovich |
"The Wooden Prince" and "The Miraculous Mandarin" | Belo Bartok |
Composer of "Mikrokosmos" an educational piano piece. He fled Nazi-held Hungary for the U.S. | Bartok |
Studied music at Yale, but sold insurance--his firm was the largest in New York during the 1910s. | Charles Ives |
Movements of a sonata included movements named Emerson, Hawthorne, Alcott, and Thoreau | Ives |
His "Third Symphony" won a Pulitzer Prize in 1947 | Ives |
His song(based on a Vachel Lindsey poem) "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven" | Ives |
His Basque mother gave him an affinity for Spanish themes. | Ravel |
"La Valse" and "Mother Goose" | Ravel |
He re-orchestrated Mussorsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" | Ravel |
the Trout Quintet | Schubert |
Founded the Royal Academy of Music | Handel |
"Music For Royal Fireworks" | Handel |
Guys and Dolls | Frank Loesser |
Nathan Detroit and Sky Masterson in a bet about a "doll" that turns out to be Sarah Brown from the Salvation Army. | Guys and Dolls |
"Luck, Be a Lady" "Sit Down. You're Rockin' the Boat" | Guys and Dolls |
Camelot | Lerner and Loewe |
Based on King Arthur legend and The Once and Future King by T.H. White | Camelot |
the song "If Ever I Would Leave You" | Camelot |
A "doll" is taken to Havana, Cuba on a bet. | Guys and Dolls |
minimalist music | (American) Philip Glass |
The Damnation of Faust | Berlioz |
Harold in Italy | Berlioz |
"March to the Scaffold" is a section of this work | Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz) |
"Dream of a Witches Sabbath" is a section of this work | Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz) |
Armenian composer | Khachaturian |
Spartacus (ballet) | Khachaturian |
Spent most of his life working for the Esterhazy family | Haydn |
Symphony #38 "Prague Symphony" | Mozart |
Mozart was from what country? | Austria |
More than 600 art songs known as lieder | Schubert |
Die Fledermaus (The Bat) | Johann Strauss (The Younger) |
A Survivor from Warsaw | Schoenberg |
Notoriously scared of "The Curse of the Ninth" | Mahler |
Atonal operas, "Lulu" and "Wozzeck" | Berg (Alban Berg) |
The "waltz king" | Johann Strauss (the Younger) |
Master/virtuoso organist and Belgian composer; classed with JS Bach as best organ virtuosos of all time | Franck (Cesar Franck) |
"Resurrection" and "Tragic" Symphonies | Mahler |
Brazilian composer | Villa-Lobos |
The Moldau | Smetna (Czech) |
Czech but lived in Sweden for a decade, had tinnitus his entire life | Smetna |
"Ma Vlast" and "From My Life" | Smetna |
Wrote his best known work after a family visit to Spillville, IA in 1893 | Dvorak (From the New World) |
"Moravian Duets", "Stabat Mater", and Rusalka (opera) | Dvorak (Czech) |
Sinfonietta | Janacek (Czech) |
Left Germany to live in England and compose for the Hanovers | Handel |
English Baroque composer; organist for Westminster Abbey; "The Fairy Queen" | Purcell (Henry) |
Dido and Aeneas; Abdelazar | Purcell |
Piece written for coronation of Edward VII | Pomp and Circumstance |
The Land of Hope and Glory; Enigma Variations | Elgar (Know that early in his career he composed songs for a lunatic asylum) |
He was related to Charles Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood | Ralph Vaughn Williams |
Sinfonia Antarctica | Ralph Vaughn Williams |
The Sea Symphony | Ralph Vaughn Williams |
The Lark Ascending; Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis | Ralph Vaughn Williams |
He was heavily influenced by Hindu literature | Holst (Gustav) |
Songs from Rig Veda | Holst |
Savitri | Holst |
At the Boar's Head | Holst |
Britten's "A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" is based on ___ | Purcell's "Abdelazar" |
Finnish composer; works based on the Sagas, the Eddas, and the Kalevala | Sibelius |
Valse Triste | Sibelius |
The Swan of Tuonela | Sibelius |
Challenged a man who questioned whether his Faust (opera) was even his as it was so much better than his other works | Gounod |
Faust (opera) | Gounod (Charles) |
Born in Germany to Jewish parents but moved to France as young man and usually considered a French composer | Offenbach (Jacques) |
Robinson Crusoe | Offenbach |
the "Can Can" | Infernal Galop (from Orpheus in the Underworld) |
Fought in the Franco-Prussian War | Camille Saint-Saens |
Very public feud between these two French composers | Saint-Saens and Debussy |
Dance Macabre | Saint-Saens |
Samson and Delilah; Organ Symphony | Saint-Saens |
The Fair Maid of Perth; The Pearl Fishers (operas) | Bizet |
Carmen based on this play | Merimee |
His music is often described as the musical equivalent of "Impressionism" | Debussy |
His music is often described as "Symbolism" due to his close association with the Symbolist poets (Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Verlaine) | Debussy |
Faust (opera) | Gounod |
L'Orfeo | Monteverde |