Stringfest 2026
Composer of "Rosin Eating Zombies from Outer Space"
Who is Richard Meyer?
First time is an accident. Second time is a coincidence. The third time you have a clue.
What is Laureano's Law?
This type of piece is performed just before a show, ballet, or opera begins.
What is an overture?
He composed a famous quartet based on his name.
Who is Dmitri Shostakovich?
He said, "You only have to practice on the days that you eat."
Who is Sinichi Suzuki?
The name of the musicial that "76 Trombones" is from.
What is "The Music Man?"
The proper way to ask to use the bathroom.
What is "May I use the bathroom?"
In a musical composition, the name of the different sections of a piece.
What are movements?
This composer wrote the famous oratorio called "The Messiah."
Who is Georg Friedrich Handel?
What is Manny Laureano's well known quote?
What is "Amatueurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong?"
This man who composed the music to "Seventy-Six Trombones."
Who is Meredith Wilson?
Why sub-divide?
What is "Because when you fill up the space between each beat, you will not rush."
Name the musical form that is a complicated round.
What is a fugue?
This film composer wrote the music for "Imperial March" and "Hedwig's Theme."
Who is John Williams?
Finish this sentence: "Don't be right...
...be together."
A musicial composition featuring a set of continuous variations built over a repeating bassline or harmonic sequence.
What is a Passacaglia?
What do straight bow at the sounding point, arm weight, and speed produce.
What is "great sound?"
What is an interval?
The space between two notes.
Who composed "The Choral Symphony?"
Who was Ludwig van Beethoven?
Finish this sentence: "Slow practice...
...fast progress."
Name the key in which "Rosing Eating Zombies from Outer Space" is composed.
What is D minor?
Subdivide and...
Conquer
This form of minor scale raised the seventh step.
What is a harmonic minor scale.
Name one famous composer of the Baroque era.
Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann.
Name the four composer action figures that hung in the Orchestra room.
Who were J.S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner?