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| 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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