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| Richard Strauss |
This week's show will be a quiz. After a short clip, you will be given a few seconds to recognize the name of the work, and the composer. One point for getting it right, except for a few exceptions, where you're allowed two points.
I'm putting this photo up, because Richard Strauss's birthday was on Thursday, June 11.
If you're determined to cheat, here is a list of the pieces, so you can play match the names and the tunes:
- Air (on the G string) —Bach
- Symphony 5 —Beethoven
- Hungarian Dance —Brahms
- Arabesque —Debussy
- Pavana Lachrimae —Dowland
- Nimrod —Elgar
- Rhapsody in Blue —Gershwin
- Watermusic —Handel
- Midsummer Night's Dream —Mendelssohn
- Violin Concerto —Mendelssohn
- Clarinet Quintet —Mozart
- Symphony 40 in G minor —Mozart
- Pictures at an Exhibition —Mussorgsky
- Suite from Abdelazer —Purcell
- Fanfare from Also sprach Zarathusthra —R. Strauss
- Unfinished Symphony —Schubert
- Die Moldau —Smetana
- Liberty Bell March —Sousa
- 1812 Overture —Tchaikovsky
- Ride of the Valkyries —Wagner
