IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE...
A 1912 work by Marc Chagall is titled after this musician found in the title of a Broadway show
Fiddler
He worked on a Ford assembly line & as a prizefighter before founding Motown records
Berry Gordy
Gruel for Goldilocks
porridge
This meanie in "Hansel and Gretel" was written for a mezzo-soprano but is sometimes sung by a tenor
the witch
These 2 warring capitals were a mere 100 miles apart
Washington & Richmond
This Spaniard called some of his pieces "hand-painted dream photographs"
Salvador Dali
This tennis player's memoir "Days of Grace" was published posthumously in 1993
Arthur Ashe
It "makes perfect"
practice
These are repetitions of a theme with changes; Paganini's Opus 9 is these on "God Save the King"
variations
According to the prisoner exchange agreement of July 1862, 60 privates could be exchanged for one of these officers
a general
1947's "Lucifer" was one of the first "poured" paintings by this artist
Jackson Pollock
She read a poem at President Clinton's 1993 inauguration & in 2011 received the Medal of Freedom from President Obama
Maya Angelou
The Garden of Eden
paradise
His sole opera, "Fidelio", tells a tale of a young woman disguising herself as a boy
Beethoven
With a population of about 168,000 in 1860, this city on the Mississippi River was the largest city in the Confederacy
New Orleans
Edward Hopper captured the isolation of urban life in this 1942 masterpiece depicting a diner that's open late
The Nighthawks
Living in rags paid off--in 1976 he was honored with a special Pulitzer citation for his contribution to American music
Scott Joplin
Side by side
parallel
It's the title of Elgar's Opus 78 & of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, opus no. unknown, featuring actors on roller skates
Starlight Express
12,000 men were involved in this ill-fated July 1863 "Charge" named for a general who sold insurance after the war
Pickett's Charge
Georges Seurat painted a "Sunday Afternoon On" this island, literally "the big platter"
La Grande Jatte
In 1990 he succeeded Ed Koch as mayor of New York City
David Dinkins
Golden horse
palomino
His Opus 68 is "From the Bohemian Forest", composed around 1883
Antonin Dvorak
In March 1861 there were 7 Confederate states, so there were 7 stars on the flag with this rhyming nickname
"Stars and Bars"