BH #17
Maybe it's because Brain of London qualifiying and preliminaries are coming up and there's bound to be some questions on them, but today it's all about British classical composers. Sorry, if that is the sort of thing that inspires about as much excitement in you as the news that Brett Ratner is murdering the X-Men series with his complete lack of directorial talent, or that Heather Small is re-releasing Proud yet again but this time with extra booming and vibrato, but this is what we need to know. You got me? (Not that I can actually recognise a piece of music by any of them ... as some people know my classical music knowledge is entirely textual, except for The Lone Ranger theme, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Apocalypse Now ... you know what I mean).
1 Which composer's ballets include Homage to the Queen (1953), Solitaire (1954), and Sweeney Todd (1959)?
2 Whose last major composition was The Rose Lake, whose world premiere came during his ninetieth birthday celebrations in 1995?
3 Which composer was born on October 12, 1872 to Margaret, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood III?
4 First performed on October 5, 1899 at Norwich festival, what name was given to Elgar's setting for contralto and orchestra of five poems with a maritime theme? And who was singing?
5 The man who succeeded Elgar in the post of professor of music at the University of Birmingham in 1908 and founded the City of Birmingham Orchestra, who composed 1915's Hebridean Symphony and 1928's Pagan Symphony, as well as the oratorio Omar Khayyam (1906-9)?
6 Set to lyrics by WH Auden, Britten's first operetta which was premiered at Columbia University in 1941 and received a hostile reception was about which mythical lumberjack?
7 Born in 1971, which compose's first opus Five Eliot Landscapes was published in 1990, while his 1995 chamber opera Powder Her Face became notorious for its musical depiction of fellatio? 8 In what year did Britten found the Aldeburgh festival? And with which singer and librettist?
9 Taking its title from a Biblical event, Britten set which 16th century miracle play from Chester to music? Also set operatically by Stravinsky, this cantata was first performed on June 18, 1958 as part of the Aldeburgh Festival.
10 On escaping to the West in 1954, which composer of ten symphonies wrote in his autobiography Composing Myself: "I had leapt to my Polish position of No. One to No One in England", but was knighted in 1991, the year he died?
11 Who was granted leave from military service during WW2 to compose music for such propaganda films as The First of the Few (1942) and Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944)?
12 Who composed Epicedium for Queen Mary (1695) and Ode on the Death of Purcell (1696), and whose masque for the entertainment of the then King, Venus and Adonis, (written between 1680-87) is the only stage composition by him of which any record survives?
13 On completing the full score of the The Dream of Gerontius, Elgar added to it which famous quotation from John Ruskin's Sesames and Lilies?
14 Highly regarded for his chamber music, who composed the orchestral The Sea (1911), Oration (1930) for cello and orchestra and the opera The Christmas Rose (1932)?
15 Vaughan Williams composed Towards the Unknown Region in 1905, a setting to which poet's words?
16 Which Master of the Queen's Musick suffered many disappointments in his post-war career including his swansong Metamorphic Variations not being first performed by Leopold Stokowski as he had hoped when it was premiered in 1972?
17 Which Accrington-born man composed the operas The Second Mrs Kong (1994) and The Last Supper (2000)?
18 In which town was Britten born on November 22, 1913?
19 Which woman is one of the UK's most internationally performed composers with her piano trio Chapman's Pool receiving over 80 performances globally in two years, while her other works include the huge orchestral piece Chartres (2005) and whose Prague became, in 2003, the first female-written work to be selected as a National Brass Band Championship testpiece?
20 Elgar never managed to finish which opera (opus 89) in two acts with a libretto by Sir Barry Jackson which was based on the Ben Jonson play The Devil is an Ass?
Answers to BH #16
1 Lyndon Johnson 2 Tegel airport 3 Erich Huckel 4 The Flying Wallendas 5 Bugatti 6 Martial Solal 7 Vouli ton Ellinon (Council of the Greeks) or The Hellenic Parliament 8 Dorothy Hamill 9 Vanuatu 10 James Bradley 11 Mashraq 12 Wat Si Saket 13 Augustinians 14 The Mississippi 15 Fitness 16 Conservation of fitness 17 Fun Boy Three 18 Sophie Scholl 19 Lee Trevino 20 Mabel Lucie Attwell
1 Which composer's ballets include Homage to the Queen (1953), Solitaire (1954), and Sweeney Todd (1959)?
2 Whose last major composition was The Rose Lake, whose world premiere came during his ninetieth birthday celebrations in 1995?
3 Which composer was born on October 12, 1872 to Margaret, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood III?
4 First performed on October 5, 1899 at Norwich festival, what name was given to Elgar's setting for contralto and orchestra of five poems with a maritime theme? And who was singing?
5 The man who succeeded Elgar in the post of professor of music at the University of Birmingham in 1908 and founded the City of Birmingham Orchestra, who composed 1915's Hebridean Symphony and 1928's Pagan Symphony, as well as the oratorio Omar Khayyam (1906-9)?
6 Set to lyrics by WH Auden, Britten's first operetta which was premiered at Columbia University in 1941 and received a hostile reception was about which mythical lumberjack?
7 Born in 1971, which compose's first opus Five Eliot Landscapes was published in 1990, while his 1995 chamber opera Powder Her Face became notorious for its musical depiction of fellatio? 8 In what year did Britten found the Aldeburgh festival? And with which singer and librettist?
9 Taking its title from a Biblical event, Britten set which 16th century miracle play from Chester to music? Also set operatically by Stravinsky, this cantata was first performed on June 18, 1958 as part of the Aldeburgh Festival.
10 On escaping to the West in 1954, which composer of ten symphonies wrote in his autobiography Composing Myself: "I had leapt to my Polish position of No. One to No One in England", but was knighted in 1991, the year he died?
11 Who was granted leave from military service during WW2 to compose music for such propaganda films as The First of the Few (1942) and Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944)?
12 Who composed Epicedium for Queen Mary (1695) and Ode on the Death of Purcell (1696), and whose masque for the entertainment of the then King, Venus and Adonis, (written between 1680-87) is the only stage composition by him of which any record survives?
13 On completing the full score of the The Dream of Gerontius, Elgar added to it which famous quotation from John Ruskin's Sesames and Lilies?
14 Highly regarded for his chamber music, who composed the orchestral The Sea (1911), Oration (1930) for cello and orchestra and the opera The Christmas Rose (1932)?
15 Vaughan Williams composed Towards the Unknown Region in 1905, a setting to which poet's words?
16 Which Master of the Queen's Musick suffered many disappointments in his post-war career including his swansong Metamorphic Variations not being first performed by Leopold Stokowski as he had hoped when it was premiered in 1972?
17 Which Accrington-born man composed the operas The Second Mrs Kong (1994) and The Last Supper (2000)?
18 In which town was Britten born on November 22, 1913?
19 Which woman is one of the UK's most internationally performed composers with her piano trio Chapman's Pool receiving over 80 performances globally in two years, while her other works include the huge orchestral piece Chartres (2005) and whose Prague became, in 2003, the first female-written work to be selected as a National Brass Band Championship testpiece?
20 Elgar never managed to finish which opera (opus 89) in two acts with a libretto by Sir Barry Jackson which was based on the Ben Jonson play The Devil is an Ass?
Answers to BH #16
1 Lyndon Johnson 2 Tegel airport 3 Erich Huckel 4 The Flying Wallendas 5 Bugatti 6 Martial Solal 7 Vouli ton Ellinon (Council of the Greeks) or The Hellenic Parliament 8 Dorothy Hamill 9 Vanuatu 10 James Bradley 11 Mashraq 12 Wat Si Saket 13 Augustinians 14 The Mississippi 15 Fitness 16 Conservation of fitness 17 Fun Boy Three 18 Sophie Scholl 19 Lee Trevino 20 Mabel Lucie Attwell
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