Matthew/Sohothedog has some fun for the weekend with this unusual quiz! Here goes:
1. Name an opera you love for the libretto, even though you don't particularly like the music.
Tosca. I'm not kidding.
2. Name a piece you wish Glenn Gould had played.
Michael Nyman's music for The Piano.
3. If you had to choose: Charles Ives or Carl Ruggles?
Would compromise and go to The Ivy for lunch instead.
4. Name a piece you're glad Glenn Gould never played.
Debussy, La plus que lente.
5. What's your favorite unlikely solo passage in the repertoire?
The tweetybird unaccompanied violin passage in Enescu's Impressions d'enfance.The cuckoo ain't bad either.
6. What's a Euro-trash high-concept opera production you'd love to see? (No Mortier-haters get to duck this one, either—be creative.)
Wagner's Ring performed according to the composer's instructions with designs taken from Arthur Rackham's drawings. Wild!
7. Name an instance of non-standard concert dress you wish you hadn't seen.
Jean-Yves Thibaudet's red socks.
8. What aging rock-and-roll star do you wish had tried composing large-scale chorus and orchestra works instead of Paul McCartney?
Whatstheirnames from Abba.
9. If you had to choose: Carl Nielsen or Jean Sibelius?
Sibelius, but my husband might kill me for that.
10. If it was scientifically proven that Beethoven's 9th Symphony caused irreversible brain damage, would you still listen to it?
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3 comments:
1° "Pelléas"
2° "Vexations" (Satie)
3° Neither!
4° Anything by Schumann.
5° LIszt's 'glissandi'.
6° Pass.
7° Grimaud's wolfskin undies.
8° Johnny Haliday.
9° Sibelius, without hesitation.
10°No - I virtually know it by heart.
1. Is it enough that I love all Mozart operas despite the libretti?!
2. A piano rendition of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody :)
3. Ives - easy.
4. Did he ever do the Brahms Ballad, Op.117? Hope not!
5. The triangle solo in Liszt's first piano concerto.
6. ummmmm... BlueBeard's Castle set in Madame Tussauds. Could make for some interesting and famous 'former wives'???
7. Not sure about Lang Lang's white faux-aligator-skin shoes... but then, he didn't actually wear them in the concert, so I guess it doesn't count.
8. He's beyond aging, but Freddy Mercury, OR, in the same realm Johnny Cash. Yeah, definitely could see a bit of Bad-boy Country Symphony working well...
9. Sibelius any day - far more meat on the bone :)
10. Brain damage? Beethoven 9? Brain damage? Beethoven 9? Brain damage? Beethoven 9? :@#*)@#%*
1.I liked the poster for La Finta Giardiniera - does that count?
2.Chopin Mazurkas, or failing that the complete works of Chico Marx (GG's alter ego).
3.Neither really. Carl Ruggles, because he sounds like a Teddy Bear.
4.Don't like this question. Satie.
5. Miles going mad at the piano in The Turn of the Screw
6. A pectorals-&-pvc oriented Lohengrin. Lohengrin's really after Telramund, ditto Ortrud vs. Elsa.
7. Angela Hewitt's black & white leather trouser suit on the inlay of her Well-Tempered Clavier Book one. But I still admire her.
8. Mark E. Smith
9. Sibelius; I'm of a nervous disposition.
10. No. It would defeat part of the object.
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