Orchestras
The 1st chair, 1st violin player
Who is the concertmaster?
The adjustable rod on the bottom of a cello or bass.
What is an endpin?
The most well-known cellist in the world today.
Who is Yo-Yo Ma?
This composer's symphony includes the famous choral setting of Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy."
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
A single word that is used for a musical composition that is inspired by or evocative of the night?
What is 'Nocturne?'
The instrument that would play the tuning note for a symphony.
What is the oboe?
The lowest note a viola can play.
What is a C?
This violinist famously busked in the NYC subway to see if people would recognize him.
Who is Joshua Bell?
This composer wrote many famous unaccompanied works for solo strings.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
The 13th section of Camille Saint-Saëns's suite "The Carnival of the Animals" has a prominent cello solo and is named for this bird.
What is a swan?
The stand partner responsible for turning pages.
Who is the inside player?
A popular material (an alternative to wood) used to make bows.
What is carbon fiber?
This bassist is both a composer and a performer, collaborating with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, and Chris Thile, among others. He is well known for performing both jazz and bluegrass styles.
Who is Edgar Meyer?
This composer wrote the opera "The Marriage of Figaro."
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Featuring cannon fire, the French national anthem, and folk music, one of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's most famous compositions is an orchestral overture with this year in its name.
What is 1812?
An instrument not usually found in a symphony.
What is a saxophone?
The smallest fractional size of a violin.
What is a 1/32 size?
This female violinist made her orchestral soloist debut at age 11 and performed at Carnegie Hall for the first time at age 16.
Who is Hilary Hahn?
His most famous work is his Ninth Symphony, which is known by the nickname 'New World Symphony.'
Who is Antonín Dvořák?
Both Chopin and Debussy are known for this type of short musical composition for the piano, originally meant to provide practice material for students. This type of composition fulfills the same role for string students.
What is an etude?
The piano, when played within an orchestral setting, is placed into this instrument family.
What is the percussion section?
This pear-shaped stringed instrument from the lute family typically consists of eight strings and plays in most bluegrass music.
What is a mandolin?
This 19th-century Italian violinist and composer was so skilled that people thought he had sold his soul to the devil in order to play so well.
Who is Niccolò Paganini?
One of this composer's pieces of music was adapted from his ballet Sleeping Beauty to be "Once Upon a Dream" in Disney's 1959 film.
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
Name one piece we played this year in Chamber Strings.
What is _______?