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This orchestra in the U.S holds the Guinness World Record for most attendees of a classical music concert: 800,000 people in 1989.
What is the New York Philharmonic?
For all evening performances in the Shed, we ask that all guests get the f*ck off the property no later than this number of minutes after the concert end time.
What is 30 minutes?
This composer began having visions as early as age five and continued to experience them throughout her life.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
This instrument was prominent during the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Its name comes from the Old French words for "pull" and "push", which describe the instrument's slide action.
What is the sackbut?
The number of eyes that bees have
What is five?
The Guinness World Record for the world’s oldest existing symphony orchestra is held by this orchestra in Germany which was established in 1743. It was originally called the Grosses Concert, then the Musikbende Gesellschaft before adopting its current name in 1781.
What is the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig?
During Shed concerts, you may do this activity in designated areas around the Tappan Manor House and in the Apple Tree Lot of Ozawa Hall but not on the shed lawn.
This composer would count out 60 coffee beans meticulously before he drank his coffee.
Who is Beethoven?
A stringed instrument with a soundbox and strings stretched between a yoke and the body, often with a tortoise-shell soundbox.
What is a Lyre?
The number of stomachs that bees have.
What is 2?
The Guinness World Record for the world’s largest orchestra was obtained in November 2021 by this South American Orchestra when 8,573 musicians played together in an orchestra – that is one enormous ensemble!
What is the El Sistema National de Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela? (Orchestra Venezuela also accepted)
When Tanglewood was founded, this composer was appointed head of the composition department.
Who is, Aaron Copland?
This composers tomb has two skulls in it…
Who is Haydn?
The pitch of this instrument is altered by changing lip pressure and the use of the hand to partially or fully mute the bell.
What is the natural horn?
The color that bees cannot see
What is red?
The Guinness World Record for the largest number of concerts given by an orchestra is currently held by this orchestra. At the date that the orchestra was assessed for this world record, 18 December 2004, they had performed 14,000 concerts, and they have probably added a few more in the last 20 years.
What is the New York Philharmonic?
This is the year the BSO first performed in the Berkshires
What is 1936?
This composer was a football fanatic.
Who is Shastakovich?
This instrument is played by a plucking mechanism instead of hammer. The earliest known one of these is from 1397.
What is a harpsichord?
The gender of bee that has a stinger
What is female?
This Havergal Brian Symphony requires over 800 musicians to perform, including 82 string players.
What is Symphony no. 1, the “Gothic”?
Tanglewood is called Tanglewood for this reason.
What is, because the Tappan family, who donated the land to create TWD, was inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorn’s "Tanglewood Tales,"?(variation of this answer without names is acceptable.)
This composers was known for her legendary burns. She wrote that Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde was “the most repugnant thing I have ever seen or heard in all my life”
Who is Clara Schumann?
This Italian instrument, popular during the Renaissance, was played with a bow, and its name means "lyre of the arm" in Italian, indicating how it was held.
What is a Lira da Braccio?
How bees communicate the location and quality of food sources to other bees
What is the “waggle” dance?