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Classical Quiz No. 4
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We’re back with the Classical Quiz, which the death of Slava last week and a few other pressing news items pushed back to today.
Last week’s winner was Tony Langford from Roswell, whose three correct answers earned him a CD of Bach’s “St. Matthew” Passion. Another reader suggested I hand out t-shirts and other “fun” fan memoribilia, just like the Ask Alan Smithee column in the AJC’s Movies & More section. Guess what, folks? The Hollywood and TV industries send out loads and loads of disposable stuff — in classical music what you get are CDs and DVDs and the occassional weighty composer biography. That’s a much better deal, seems to me.
OK, so here are this week’s quiz questions:
ONE Mstislav Rostropovich died last week. He commissioned some 120 works for cello or orchestra or chamber ensemble, and he said he was closest to his three “geniuses.” Who are they?
TWO Last week, the Atlanta Symphony played a concert of 20th century British music, including Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “Three Screaming Popes.” What inspired Turnage?
THREE Complete this sentence from conductor Donald Runnicles: “Most Brits are born with…”
a) a love of soggy desserts and bad plumbing.
b) an acute inferiority complex.
c) an “outie.”
The first person to email me the three correct answers will receive a DVD of the Cleveland Orchestra and conductor Franz Welser-Moest performing Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5 live at the baroque Stiftsbasilika St. Florian in Austria.
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