Classical Music
This Ravel chamber piece contains a fast, rhythmic movement called "Pantoum."
What is the Ravel piano trio?
Gustav Holst used the hymn "I Vow to Thee, My Country" as a theme in this movement from The Planets.
What is "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity"?
In this Verdi opera, the lead character, Violetta, is dying of tuberculosis yet able to sing demanding and beautiful arias.
What is La Traviata?
This Golden Age show features the song "How I Loved You."
What is Carousel?
He wrote "Amaranthus Caudatus II," an excruciatingly ugly piece for solo flute that won the 2011 Nova Scotia Kiwanis Festival first prize in composition.
Who is Lucas Oickle?
These three-named creators wrote the words and music, respectively, to "The Vagabond," one of Dad's favorite pieces for solo baritone.
Who are Robert Louis Stevenson and Ralph Vaughan Williams?
In this song by Faure, great sailing ships feel themselves held back by "the spirit of faraway cradles."
What is "Les Berceaux"?
This opera features the passionate, angry duet "Gia'mi pasco ne' tuoi sguardi."
What is Norma?
She played Janis in the original Broadway production of Mean Girls.
Who is Barrett Wilbert Weed?
The restaurant in Ithaca, NY, frequented by Rohan and Steve, whose dessert specialties include deep-fried ice cream
What is Mexicali Rosa's?
In this Debussy setting of a French poem, a girl tells of a twilight tryst that she is trying to keep a secret from her mother.
What is "La Flute de Pan"?
In the movie Seven Years in Tibet, this Debussy composition features prominently and is played by a music box.
What is "Clair de Lune"?
In this aria from Handel's Acis and Galatea, Polyphemus sings of his love for Galatea.
What is "O Ruddier than the Cherry"?
The Book of Mormon performers Josh Gad and Rory O'Malley were roommates at this university.
What is Carnegie Mellon University?
The given names of the Manx couple who were neighbors of Rohan and Steve on Ritchie Drive.
What is "Rodney and Margaret"?
In five different years, a young Maurice Ravel lost this prestigious composition prize to other composers whom hardly anyone now remembers.
What is the Prix de Rome?
"Great Courses" teacher Robert Greenberg, my friends, referred annoyingly often to this motet by the medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut.
What is Quant en Moy?
The American composer of the late-20th-century operas Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer
Who is John Adams?
He played Javert in the original (1987) Broadway production of Les Miserables.
Who is Terrence Mann?
Charlotte Smith's costume the one year that she and Maddie went trick-or-treating together
He wrote the 40-part motet Spem in Alium.
Who is Thomas Tallis?
The name for an exceptionally strong plucking of a string so that it snaps loudly against the neck of the instrument
What is a "Bartok pizzicato"?
An aria in this French opera requires the lead tenor to sing eight high Cs.
What is La Fille du Regiment (or The Daughter of the Regiment)?
This 1984 Woody Allen comedy film features "Broadway" in its title.
What is Broadway Danny Rose?
The street in Ithaca, NY, on which Steve lived from 1987 until 1992.
What is Highgate Circle?