Amazon sells one you that can wear that says "kiss the chef"
An Apron
Born in Brooklyn in 1898, his real name was Jacob Gershwin
George Gershwin
Term for a composition based on one of the 150 songs of the same name in the Old Testament
Psalms
This musical direction is sometimes abbreviated stacc.
Staccato
Draped around your window sill, some come in the blackout variety
Curtains
This composer's "A German Requiem" & "Lullaby" were both completed in 1868
By the early 1900s, the square style of this musical instrument was replaced by the upright
A Piano
Solmization is the system of representing these by syllables instead of letters
Notes
What cats play with instead of the fancy, expensive toy
A box
This composer bridged the gap between the romantic and classical eras of music
Beethoven
Musical term whose name is Italian for "alone"
A solo
Italian for "in chapel style", it has come to mean singing without instrumental accompaniment
A cappella
This single-named singer headlined the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show
Usher
This American composer first conducted the New York Philharmonic on November 14, 1943
Leonard Bernstein
The title character in "Rusalka" is a water nymph in Dvorak's finest one of this
An Opera
A musical composition that accompanies a procession; funeral ones are played in slow tempo
A March
Levels in a video game ranging from 1-10
A stage
In 1976 the USSR issued a stamp bearing his picture & an excerpt from his "Leningrad Symphony"
Dimitri Shostakovich
In Holst's "The Planets", this section is subtitled "The Winged Messenger"
Mercury
This French term that means "improvised" often refers to a piano piece that sounds improvised
Impromptu