Musical Theater
Of all the “Romeo and Juliet” Broadway rip-offs, the most famous is what Hudson-adjacent drama that features Tony and Maria’s love in the context of a teenage street gang war?
West Side Story
"The Golden Goose" is a 1926 work by what English classical-music composer who is better known for his orchestral suite "The Planets?"
Gustav Holst
Name the highest and lowest instrument in an orchestra setting
piccolo
tuba, contrabassoon, double bass, etc.
What major key has 3 flats
E flat
In 2023, this artist released the album GUTS featuring the hit song ‘vampire.’”
Olivia Rodrigo
Named for a major Midwestern city, what long-running Broadway musical features songs like "All That Jazz," "Cell Block Tango," and "Mr. Cellophane?"
Chicago
Where and when was Mozart born? Bonus 100 if you know the city.
Name all musical eras throughout classical music (4)
Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Contemproray
C
Who won the most amount of Grammys
Beyonce
A bunch of clique-ish high school blondes who share the same name provided the title of what 1988 Winona Ryder black comedy that ended up getting the full Broadway musical treatment in 2010?
Heathers
The second longest river in Europe inspired Austrian music maker Johann Strauss II to compose what colorful waltz in 1866?
The Blue Danube
What instrument does Saia play?
+100 if you can name all the officer's respected instruments
Cello
Elaina: Bass Clarinet (or Bb clarinet too, good catch)
Lizzie: Clarinet (Piano)
Naima: Vocalist (Guitar)
What major key has 6 sharps
F sharp
This 2010 hit by Lady Gaga is also the nickname of a famous card game. What is the song?
Poker Face
What Hollywood-set 2016 film, famously mis-announced as the winner of a Best Picture Oscar, will get the Broadway treatment in an upcoming live stage musical?
La La Land
In Prokofiev's "symphonic fairy tale" Peter and the Wolf, the clarinet represents what animal
bonus! 200 if you can name all of the characters and what instruments they represent
Cat!
oboe: duck. flute: bird. bassoon: grandfather.
wolf: french horns. hunters: trumpets and woodwinds
peter: strings
The specific point in a conducting gesture or a rhythmic pattern that articulates the musical pulse, or beat.
Ictus
What is the english word for the instrument "fagotto"
bassoon
This song, originally released in 1978, re-entered the charts and went viral in 2022 thanks to Stranger Things.
Running Up That Hill, Kate Bush
Who is not a character in the musical Les Misérables? a) Mario
b) Jean Valjean
c) Fantine
d) Javert
Mario
Who composed the opera "The Barber of Seville"?
Rossini
What is the subdominant chord of D Major?
GBD
What does giocosso mean
playful, fun
Before going by her real name, this artist performed under the stage name ‘Lizzy Grant.’
Lana Del Rey