Musical holidays

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Question:

Which of his seven symphonies did Sibelius begin to sketch out during a restorative trip to Rapallo and Florence in Italy in 1901?

Response:

	First Symphony
	Second Symphony
	Feedback: Correct! The work's second movement in particular was sketched out during the trip.
	Third Symphony

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Question:

In which opera by Benjamin Britten do a group of children, while on holiday, come to the aid of a boy they discover stuck up a chimney?

Response:

	'The Little Sweep'
	Feedback: Correct! When the little boy pleads not to be sent back up the chimney the children hide him in the toy cupboard
	Billy Budd
	A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Question:

'Washington's Birthday', 'Decoration Day', 'The Fourth of July' and 'Thanksgiving' are movements to which composer's New England Holidays Symphony?

Response:

	Aaron Copland
	Antonín Dvořák
	Charles Ives
	Feedback: Correct! The four movements correspond to festivals in each of the four seasons

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Question:

Which composer's wretched 1838 Mediterranean break is recollected in his lover's Un hiver à Majorque?

Response:

	Franz Liszt
	Fryderyk Chopin
	Feedback: Correct! The work was written by French novelist George Sand, with whom he spent a miserable winter on the island
	Maurice Ravel

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In which English resort was Debussy staying, indulging in an affair, when he completed La mer, in 1905?

Response:

	Eastbourne
	Feedback: Correct! He was staying in the Grand Hotel in the town
	Brighton
	Penzance

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'A greener roar of waves never rushed into a stranger cavern – its many pillars making it look like the inside of an immense organ, black and resounding…' What is being described here, and by which holiday-making composer?

Response:

	The Giant's Causeway; Arnold Bax
	Durdle Door, Frederick Delius
	Fingal's Cave, Felix Mendelssohn
	Feedback: Correct! The cave is on the island of Staffa in the Inner Hebrides

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Question:

With its vivid clash of church-goers and party animals, Castellanos's symphonic suite Santa Cruz de Pacairigua depicts a public holiday in which country?

Response:

	Venezuela
	Feedback: Correct! The work celebrates the construction of a church in Guatire, near Caracas
	Brazil
	Chile

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Question:

Who composed the music for the 1974 film of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, starring Lauren Bacall and Ingrid Bergman?

Response:

	Richard Rodney Bennett
	Feedback: Correct! The score was performed by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
	Ennio Morricone
	Erich Korngold

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Question:

'Buckaroo Holiday' is the name of a movement from which 1942 ballet?

Response:

	Delibes's 'Sylvia'
	John Lanchbery's 'The Tales of Beatrix Potter'
	Copland's 'Rodeo'
	Feedback: Correct! The work was written in 1942 and set in America's Wild West

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Question:

Who in 1899 quoted a passage from Mendelssohn's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage in his orchestral description of an unnamed friend going on a lengthy sea journey?

Response:

	Vaughan Williams
	Gustav Holst
	Feedback: It was Edward Elgar and the piece which included the quotation was Variation XIII of the 'Enigma Variations'
	Edward Elgar