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Archive for November 2011

November 1, 2011

 

Stealing!

Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: or St. Petersburg

November 8, 2011

 

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Fund Drive!

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November 15, 2011

 

Drink Up!

Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: Time for an intervention

November 22, 2011

 

All You Can Eat!

Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: Your goose is cooked!

November 29, 2011

 

The Great, White North

Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: these concertos are for girls!

November 1, 2011

 

Beethoven: Wellington’s Victory, Victory Symphony

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: It’s one of the first orchestral showstoppers

November 2, 2011

 

Monteverdi: Madrigals of War and Love, “I burn, I rage”

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Fiery passions burn in Italy…

November 3, 2011

 

Donizetti: Daughter of the Regiment, Overture

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Slapstick on the battlefield…

November 4, 2011

 

Britten: War Requiem, Sanctus

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A composer lashes out at the terrors of war…

November 7, 2011

 

Beethoven: Symphony no. 5, Mvt. 1

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: who’s that knocking?

November 8, 2011

 

Offenbach: Tales of Hoffmann, The Birds in the Tower

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: the amazing wind-up soprano…

November 9, 2011

 

Messiaen: Catalogue of Birds, The Reed Warbler

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a bird of a different color…

November 10, 2011

 

Holst: The Planets, Neptune

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a “mystic” outsider…

November 11, 2011

 

Loesser: Baby, it’s Cold Outside

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: daughter of the above…

November 14, 2011

 

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, “Chocolate”

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a Christmas favorite keeps us coming back for more…

November 15, 2011

 

J. S. Bach: “Coffee” Cantata, Mvt. 4

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a Baroque “buzz”…

November 16, 2011

 

Bizet: Carmen, Chorus of Cigarette Girls

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em…

November 17, 2011

 

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Mvt. 3

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a troubled genius…

November 18, 2011

 

Porter: I’ve Got You Under My Skin

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: there ain’t no cure for it…

November 21, 2011

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Bastian and Bastienne, Overture

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a “social contract” is okay, but opera singers prefer the real thing…

November 22, 2011

 

Richard Strauss: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: some very ancient wisdom given a modern twist…

November 23, 2011

 

Leonard Bernstein: Candide, Overture

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a very “green” philosophy…

November 24, 2011

 

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4, Third Movement

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: two brothers, three arms…

November 25, 2011

 

Rodgers and Hart: Boys From Syracuse: “Oh, Diogenes”

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: an Elizabethan gets a jazzy Greek makeover…

November 28, 2011

 

Paganini: Violin Concerto No.2, “La Campanella”

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Deal or no deal, this guy can play!

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