What Happens Next? - Quiz 01
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Question 1 |
A singer is visited one dark evening by a famous music critic. What happens next?
A | An appropriate bribe is offered, ensuring a favourable review Hint: Well, not that it hasn't happened before, but no, not this time! |
B | The critic is invited in for a meal and poisoned as retribution for all the cutting reviews written over the years |
C | With a small kick to the behind, the singer gleefully kicks the critic down the stairs |
Question 1 Explanation:
Yes, it’s Abschied from the Mörike Lieder by Hugo Wolf - a song dear to musicians’ hearts!
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Performance: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore with a running translation
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Performance: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore with a running translation
Question 2 |
“Oh, if only I had a musician as a lover” sighs a girl. God grants her wish… but what happens next?
A | The musician turns out to be a wimpy violinist who plays terribly and is probably about as ineffectual in bed as he is on the violin |
B | A flautist seduces her and they live happily ever after |
C | She marries the musician, but soon tires of the poor income and runs away with a rich merchant Hint: Heheh, no that's real life! |
Question 2 Explanation:
Hugo Wolf again, this time from the colourful Italienisches Liederbuch: Wie lange schon war immer mein Verlangen
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Performance: Lucia Popp and Irwin Gage – great singing and violin playing!
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Performance: Lucia Popp and Irwin Gage – great singing and violin playing!
Question 3 |
A king is overcome with sadness and care; to cheer himself up he orders a choir of harps to play for him. Does this help soothe his grief?
A | No; instead he calls for his best wine, and his courtiers join in with a hearty drinking song, which turns out to do the trick |
B | No; but later that night he hears a nightingale's sad song which soothes his own sadness |
C | Yes, and for ever after the harp is celebrated as the symbol of his kingdom |
Question 3 Explanation:
Herbert Howells' beautiful setting of a classic English Song, King David, poetry by Walter de la Mare
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Performance: - a wonderful interpretation from Sarah Connolly and Eugene Asti live at the Wigmore Hall
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Performance: - a wonderful interpretation from Sarah Connolly and Eugene Asti live at the Wigmore Hall
Question 4 |
A handcuffed prisoner is waiting at a railway station, accompanied by a police constable. A young boy innocently plays a sweet tune on his violin for the criminal – what is the reaction?
A | The criminal joins in with the boy’s playing in an ironic parody song “This life so free…!” which makes the police officer feel rather uncomfortable |
B | Moved by the boy’s playing, the prisoner sinks to his knees and asks God’s forgiveness for his misdeeds, and the officer has a secret tear in his eye |
C | The policeman clips the boy round the ear and tells him to be off, and the prisoner reflects on the harsh hand of the law |
Question 4 Explanation:
From Britten’s At the railway station, Upway, part of his song cycle Winter Words to Hardy poetry.
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Performance: Anthony Rolfe Johnson and Graham Johnson (the first disc of Britten songs I ever bought and I treasure it still!)
Tenor Daniel Norman and I recorded Winter Words for BIS records. The disc features other Britten cycles, including the rarely-heard cycle to poetry by William Soutar, Who are these children?, and Four Burns Songs. You can buy it from BIS’ new online store for at an amazing bargain price!
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Performance: Anthony Rolfe Johnson and Graham Johnson (the first disc of Britten songs I ever bought and I treasure it still!)
Tenor Daniel Norman and I recorded Winter Words for BIS records. The disc features other Britten cycles, including the rarely-heard cycle to poetry by William Soutar, Who are these children?, and Four Burns Songs. You can buy it from BIS’ new online store for at an amazing bargain price!
Question 5 |
A carafe (yes, a carafe – those little jugs you put wine in) has one dear wish, and sings a beautiful, sad song in her lovely soprano voice: “If only I could have a little baby carafon just like at the zoo the giraffe has a baby girafon!” (She is a French carafe, you see…) Merlin the sorcerer happens to be passing and records her song on a phonographe. What happens next?
A | Merlin claps his hands three times and the next morning the carafe wakes up to the delight of a little baby carafon nuzzling up against her, just as the baby giraffon nuzzles up against the mother giraffe |
B | Merlin sells the record of the carafe’s song to a travelling theatre group who give her the starring role in their next operatic production, and people flock to hear the sad lament of the lonely carafe |
C | Merlin invites the carafe back to his castle, where she bears a dozen carafon children who are enlisted into the royal glassware to serve King Arthur and his knights |
Question 5 Explanation:
Le carafon, Poulenc’s setting from his cycle of children’s songs La courte paille, poetry by Maurice Carême.
Text & performance:
The text is copyright, so sadly cannot be printed, and I have not found a performance online which does justice to the fun and character of the song. However, the whole cycle is a wonderful and amusing addition to a recital and I do recommend anyone who doesn’t know it to go and buy the score! Here’s an English translation of the French text for this song:
"Why," lamented the carafe,
"couldn’t I have a baby carafe?
At the zoo, Mrs. Giraffe -
doesn’t she have a baby giraffe?"
A wizard who was riding by
astride a phonograph
recorded the beautiful
soprano voice of the carafe
and played it for Merlin.
"Very well," said he, "very well!"
He clapped his hands three times
-And the lady of the house
still asks herself why
she found, that morning,
a pretty little baby carafe
leaning up against the carafe
just as in the zoo, the baby giraffe
leans its long and fragile neck
against the smooth flank of the giraffe.
Text & performance:
The text is copyright, so sadly cannot be printed, and I have not found a performance online which does justice to the fun and character of the song. However, the whole cycle is a wonderful and amusing addition to a recital and I do recommend anyone who doesn’t know it to go and buy the score! Here’s an English translation of the French text for this song:
"Why," lamented the carafe,
"couldn’t I have a baby carafe?
At the zoo, Mrs. Giraffe -
doesn’t she have a baby giraffe?"
A wizard who was riding by
astride a phonograph
recorded the beautiful
soprano voice of the carafe
and played it for Merlin.
"Very well," said he, "very well!"
He clapped his hands three times
-And the lady of the house
still asks herself why
she found, that morning,
a pretty little baby carafe
leaning up against the carafe
just as in the zoo, the baby giraffe
leans its long and fragile neck
against the smooth flank of the giraffe.
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OK, you are novice song-lover, but that's fine- we all need to start somewhere. Better luck next time!
Not bad!
Nice work!
Good work - you obviously know your Schubert from your Schubart!
Perfect - something to sing about!
