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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| PLAY AND AUTHOR: The Child drowns in a fountain; the Stepdaughter runs away at the end; Italian author | SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR by Luigi PIRANDELLO |
| OPERA AND COMPOSER: protagonist sings threatening aria "Non piu andrai" and succeeds in marrying servant Susanna, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna in this Mozart opera | MARRIAGE OF FIGARO by MOZART |
| SYMPHONY AND COMPOSER: D minor funeral march in 2/4 time ends first movement; at its premiere Caroline Unger turned the deaf composer to see the audience applaud; Schiller's "Ode to Joy" sung in finale | SYMPHONY NO. 9 (in D minor) by BEETHOVE |
| PLAY: Ends with sound of axes chopping down a wooded section of the former Ranevskaya estate, written by Anton Chekhov | The CHERRY ORCHARD |
| COMPOSER: twelve London symphonies include 'Miracle' and 'Military' | Joseph HAYDN ("HI-din") |
| PLAY AND WRITER: a funeral is held for Simon Stimson; morning scenes feature visits from milkman Howie Newsome, "goodbye to clocks ticking" appears in a monologue by Emily Webb who is dead, set in Grover's Corners | OUR TOWN by Thornton WILDER |
| COMPOSER: "The Open Prairie" begins and ends his opera Billy the Kid; a "Hoe-Down" concludes his "Rodeo" (Roh-DAY-oh); composed ballet inspired by an eastern US mountain range | Aaron COPLAND (last clue references Appalachian Spring) |
| BALLET: final portion titled "Sacrificial Dance" and depicts a "Chosen One" who dances herself to death, Vaslav Nijinsky's strange choreography led to riots at its 1913 premiere, Igor Stravinsky work set during title season | The RITE OF SPRING |
| PLAY: Globe Theatre caught fire in 1613 during production of this Shakespeare history about a Tudor king | HENRY VIII (the eighth) |
| COMPOSER: wrote 1925 Concerto in F for piano and orchestra; wrote tone poem 'An American in Paris' along with 'Rhapsody in Blue' | George GERSHWIN |
| PLAY AND AUTHOR: phone conversations sell subscriptions to The Homemaker's Companion; character gets nickname "Blue Roses" from a bout of pleurosis; Jim accidentally breaks a unicorn's horn while visiting as a gentleman caller for Laura; Wingfield family | The GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee WILLIAMS |
| PLAY AND AUTHOR: in last speech a husband vows to safeguard "Nerissa's ring", heroine compares "gentle rain from heaven" to "mercy" while judging a debtor seeking a "pound of flesh", Portia humbles the Jewish moneylender Shylock | The MERCHANT OF VENICE by SHAKESPEARE |
| COMPOSER(S): Yum-Yum marries Nanki-Poo in their operetta, The Mikado, set in Japan; also wrote The Pirates of Penzance | GILBERT and SULLIVAN |
| COMPOSER SURNAME: one composer with this surname wrote oratorio The Israelites in The Desert", a composer with this surname wrote a harpsichord work featuring an aria and 30 variations (Goldberg Variations) | BACH |
| COMPOSER: depicted his persona Florestan in a movement of his piano suite Carnaval, his "Scenes from Childhood" inspired by his wife Clara, German Romantic composer of the "Spring" Symphony; vacation with wife inspired his Rhenish Symphony | Robert SCHUMANN |
| PLAY AND AUTHOR: 1590 play centers on Barabas who is the title "Jew" of a Mediterranean island | The JEW OF MALTA by Christopher MARLOWE |
| PLAY AND AUTHOR: at the start the maid Helen is told to hide a Christmas tree, the play's protagonist dances tarantella to prevent her husband, Torvald, from reading a letter from Krogstand, Nora Helmer departs with the slam of a door | A DOLL'S HOUSE by Henrik IBSEN |
| COMPOSER: 1968 Jean-Francois Paillard recording popularized his best known piece which was originally paired with a gigue, the bass repeats D, A, B, F-sharp, G, D, G, A in his best known work, Baroque, wrote imitative Canon in D | Johann PACHELBEL |
| PLAY: Women refuse to sleep with their husbands until a war ends in this Aristophanes comedy, title characters name means "Army Disbander" | LYSISTRATA |
| COMPOSER: Cello Concerto in B minor was inspired by similar Victor Herbert piece; his Symphony No. 9 features a second movement English horn solo later arranged as "Goin' Home"; his New World Symphony influenced by American spirituals | Antonin DVORAK (d'VOR-zhahk) |
| COMPOSITION AND COMPOSER: piece's opening instruction to play "without dampers" is usually ignored; its "Adagio sostenuto" first movement and "Presto agitato" last movement are in C-sharp minor; piano sonata evokes a night-time scene on a lake | MOONLIGHT SONATA by BEETHOVEN |
| PLAYWRIGHT: published extracts from Simone de Beauvoir's feminist book The Second Sex; in one play, three damned souls realize "hell is other people"; French author who wrote No Exit | Jean-Paul SARTRE |
| OPERA AND COMPOSER: Count Almaviva courts Rosina, the ward of Dr Bartolo; the count's former servant rejoices in his new profession in "Largo al factotum" | BARBER OF SEVILLE by ROSSINI |
| COMPOSER: paintings by Viktor Hartmann inspired his piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition; member of Russia's "Mighty Handful" | Modest MUSSORGSKY |
| COMPOSER: one of his operas ends with a man holding his dead daughter Gilda in his arms and crying out "the curse!"; in another, Amneris weeps as Radames is buried alive with an Ethiopian princess; Italian | Guiseppe VERDI (the operas are Rigoletto and Aida, respectively) |
| COMPOSER: included "March of the Trolls" and "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen" in his Lyric Pieces; wrote movements such as "Solveig's Song" and "Morning Mood" in his music for a Henrik Ibsen play; Norwegian composer of Peer Gynt suites | Edvard GRIEG |
| PLAY AND PLAYWRIGHT: a character in this play recites the Ten Commandments when asked to defend his poor church attendance but forgets the one banning adultery; Ezekiel Cheever finds a needle in a doll; Tituba is accused of witchcraft | The CRUCIBLE by Arthur MILLER |
| PLAY AND PLAYWRIGHT: the mysterious title character never keeps an appointment with Vladimir and Estragon in this absurdist play | WAITING FOR GODOT by Samuel BECKETT |
| PLAYWRIGHT: Greek dramatist who wrote about a horrific discovery in Oedipus Rex and described the daughter of Oedipus in Antigone | SOPHOCLES |
| OPERA AND COMPOSER: quartet of operas titled for a cursed object forged at the opening of its first installment, Das Rheingold | The RING CYCLE or The RING OF THE NIBELUNG by Richard WAGNER |
| COMPOSER: his Kaddish Symphony commemorated JFK's assassination; he scored the film On the Waterfront; "Glitter and Be Gay" is a song from his opera Candide; hosted Young People's Concerts as director of New York Philharmonic; composed West Side Story | Leonard BERNSTEIN |
| MUSICAL: the beguiling con man Harold Hill targets River City, Iowa in this 1957 musical created by Meredith Wilson | The MUSIC MAN |
| COMPOSER: like Jules Massenet, this Italian wrote an opera based on the novel Manon Lescaut; Loretta sings "O mio babbino caro" while discussing a will in his opera Gianni Schicchi; Rodolfo and Mimi are destitute Parisian artists in his opera La Boheme | Giacomo PUCCINI |
| PLAY AND PLAYWRIGHT: at the end, Steve and Mitch play poker as the protagonist is taken to a mental hospital; its protagonist says she has "always depended on the kindness of strangers"; Blanche is attacked by Stanley, who is married to Stella | A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE by Tennessee WILLIAMS |
| COMPOSER: his The Musical Offering comprises ricercars, canons, and a trio sonata all based on a theme presented by Frederick the Great | J.S. BACH |
| OPERA AND COMPOSER: Serena sings "Shame on all you sinners!" at picnickers who enjoy the humorous blaspheming of a drug dealer; a hurricane kills Clara, who sings the lullaby "Summertime"; setting is the slums of Catfish Row | PORGY AND BESS by George GERSHWIN |
| COMPOSER: wrote a piece in which contrasting themes by the French horn and D clarinet depict the folk hero Till Eulenspiegel; wrote tone poem whose opening fanfare "Sunrise" was featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey; wrote Thus Spake Zarathustra | Richard STRAUSS (need at least first initial R, or it will be a prompt) |
| PLAY AND PLAYWRIGHT: Joseph lectures a woman for straightening or "mutilating" her hair; Willy, Bobo, and Walter plan to open a liquor store; Walter's family seeks to move to a white neighborhood | A RAISIN IN THE SUN by Lorraine HANSBERRY |
| COMPOSER: his Symphony No. 4 ends with a passacaglia based on a J.S. Bach piece and his Symphony No. 2 quotes his Tragic Overture; his Symphony No. 1 took twenty years to write and was dubbed "Beethoven's Tenth"; namesake lullaby | Johannes BRAHMS |
| PLAY AND PLAYWRIGHT: title character attends a supernatural celebration of Walpurgis Night where he has a vision of Gretchen trudging towards hell; God looks favorably on this scholar who faces temptation from the devilish Mephistopheles | FAUST by GOETHE (GUR-tuh) (not Dr Faustus, by Marlowe...listen for Gretchen, Walpurgis) |
| COMPOSER: an opera by him ends with second title character bemoaning her dead lover's shining eyes in "Liebestod"; prelude to one of his operas uses a highly dissonant chord as a leitmotif for a Knight of the Round Table; composer of Tristan und Isolde | Richard WAGNER |
| COMPOSER: one of his piano pieces was nicknamed for having nearly all its notes either sharp or flat; November Uprising Led this composer of "Black Key" Etude to write a "Revolutionary" Etude; Polish composer, "Minute" Waltz | Frederic CHOPIN |
| COMPOSITION: original score called for a nonexistent "sopranino saxophone in F" and was commissioned by Ida Rubinstein; flute introduces a melody that is repeated over an ostinato snare drum rhythm; repetitive composition by Ravel | BOLERO by Maurice RAVEL |
| PLAY AND PLAYWRIGHT: "induction" that frames this play involves the deception of the drunkard Christopher Sly; rivals Gremio and Hortensio team up after learning Bianca cannot we before her sister; Petruchio subdues Katharina | The TAMING OF THE SHREW by SHAKESPEARE |
| COMPOSER: used fugues to end three of his Sun quartets; repeated pauses punctuate the coda of his string quartet The Joke; German national anthem is taken from his Emperor Quartet; "Father of the String Quartet" | Joseph HAYDN (HI-din) |
| PLAY AND PLAYWRIGHT: Wendy Darling asks the title character "boy, why are you crying?" in this 1904 play; the title character can fly because he is "innocent and heartless" | PETER PAN by J.M. BARRIE (or PETER PAN; OR, THE BOY WHO WOULDN'T GROW UP...full title) |
| COMPOSITION: Charles Ives depicted the sounds of nature heard at the title location "in the dark"; named for a famous manhattan park | CENTRAL PARK IN THE DARK by Charles IVES |
| COMPOSER: his B-flat minor Piano Sonata No. 2 contains a popular funeral march; composed a "Heroic" Polonaise; sight of dog chasing its own tail inspired him to write a piece whose title refers to size and not duration; Polish composer of "Minute" Waltz | Frederic CHOPIN |
| OPERETTA: a "very model of a modern Major-General" claims expertise on "information vegetable, animal, and mineral" in this Gilbert and Sullivan operetta | The PIRATES OF PENZANCE by GILBERT AND SULLIVAN |
| PLAY AND PLAYWRIGHT: the Mumford and Sons album Sigh No More takes its title from this play about a "merry war" between Beatrice and Benedick | MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by SHAKESPEARE |
| PLAY AND PLAYWRIGHT: in a climactic scene, the protagonist defends his actions by screaming "because it is my name"; Samuel Parris accuses a slave of harming his daughter during a ritual in the woods; based on Salem Witch Trials | The CRUCIBLE by Arthur MILLER (slave's name is Tituba) |
| PLAY AND PLAYWRIGHT: Big Daddy's family tries to keep him from learning that he is dying of cancer | CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by Tennessee WILLIAMS |
| COMPOSER: depicted a disguised viceroy in Peru in his opera El Capitan; invented a lightweight, coiled variety of the tuba and wrote piece "The Washington Post" while leading the U.S. Marine Band; "March King" who wrote "The Stars and Stripes Forever" | John Philip SOUSA |
| OPERA AND COMPOSER: tenor in this opera compares the title character to a portrait of Mary Magdalene in the aria "Recondita armonia"; title character bemoans Cavaradossi's fate in the aria "Vissi d'arte"; title singer kills police chief Baron Scarpia | TOSCA by PUCCINI |
| INSTRUMENT: not a trumpet, but a jazz composer who primarily played this had the signature tune "Sing, Sing, Sing"; a long trill and glissando for this instrument opens Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue; Benny Goodman played this single-reed woodwind | CLARINET |
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