Quiz Time (Blogz R Fun!)














Via Soho the Dog:

1. What's the best quotation of a piece of music within another piece of music?
-Cliché, but I have to go with Berg's Bach quotation in the Violin Concerto.
2. Name the best classical crossover album ever made.
-I am fond of Isao Tomita's album of synthesized Debussy.
3. Great piece with a terrible title.
-Speaking of Debussy, maybe Le petit nègre? Or Prokofiev's Hail to Stalin?
4. If you had to choose: Benjamin Britten or Michael Tippett?
-Britten by a long shot, but I heard Tippett's Triple Concerto the other day and quite liked parts of it.
5. Who's your favorite spouse of a composer/performer? (Besides your own.)
-Vera Stravinsky.
6. Terrible piece with a great title.
-Ambrose Thomas' Hamlet.
7. What's the best use of a classical warhorse in a Hollywood movie?
-Though it isn't a movie, I like whenever Delibes' "Flower Duet" is used, especially in the "Raging Bull"-montage in the Simpsons where Homer becomes a boxer.
8. Name the worst classical crossover album ever made.
-All of them.
9. If you had to choose: Sam Cooke or Marvin Gaye?
-Both.
10. Name a creative type in a non-musical medium who would have been a great composer.
-Georg Trakl