Something fishy

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Question:

‘St Anthony of Padua’s Sermon to the Fishes’ can be heard in which collection of songs, written in 1899?

Response:

	Mahler’s 'Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
	Feedback: Correct! The story goes that when the residents of Rimini in Italy wouldn't sit and listen to his sermon, St Anthony went to the sea shore and preached to the fish - who all listened attentively.
	Schubert's 'Wintterreise'
	Debussy's 'Ariettes oubliées'

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Question:

Who are the two best-known residents of Catfish Row, Charleston?

Response:

	Tony and Maria
	Porgy and Bess
	Feedback: Correct! Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess' was first performed in 1935 and it was based on the novel 'Porgy' by DuBose Heyward
	Zelda and Scott

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How old was the violinist Jennifer Pike when, in 2002, she became the (then) youngest ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition?

Response:

	12
	13
	Feedback: She was 12 years old when she won
	14

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Question:

‘Fish in the Unruffled Lakes’ is the title of a song, using a text by WH Auden, for high voice and piano composed by whom in 1937?

Response:

	Frank Bridge
	Herbert Howells
	Benjamin Britten
	Feedback: Correct! The first verse of the poem is: 'Fish in the unruffled lakes/ Their swarming colours wear,/ Swans in the winter air/ A white perfection have,/ And the great lion walks/ Through his innocent grove;/ Lion, fish and swan/ Act, and are gone/ Upon Time’s toppling wave.'

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Question:

This fine fish, below, shares its name with the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. Who is said maestro?

Response:

	Benjamin Zander
	Gustavo Dudamel
	Riccardo Muti
	Feedback: It's a Zander - sharing its name with Benjamin Zander

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Question:

Which Puccini opera features a character called ‘The Tench’ (Il Tinca) who works on the Seine?

Response:

	Suor Angelica
	Tosca
	Il Tabarro
	Feedback: Correct! He's a stevedore in this opera, which is the first part of Puccini's triple bill 'Il Trittico'

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Question:

Which 1990s BBC comedy, starring Stefanie Cole and Graham Crowden, had the last movement of Schubert’s Trout Quintet as its theme tune?

Response:

	Birds of a Feather
	One Foot in the Grave
	Waiting for God
	Feedback: Correct! It ran from 1990-1994

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Which fish swim around ornamentally in Debussy’s Images for solo piano – inspired, it’s believed, by a Japanese lacquered panel?

Response:

	Clownfish
	Goldfish
	Feedback: Correct! The piece is called 'Poissons d'or'
	Angelfish

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Question:

We’ll banish all Sorrow, and sing till tomorrow, And angle and angle again’ wrote 17th-century English composer Henry Lawes. Whose words was he setting?

Response:

	Ben Jonson
	Robert Herrick
	Izaak Walton
	Feedback: Correct! His best known work, 'The Compleat Angler' was published in 1653.