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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

This is really a quiz thread, in which shippies will post a question , and whoever gives the correct answer (there does have to be a genuinely correct answer) gets to post the next question.

I would suggest a three day limit, after which, if there is no answer given, the poster of the question provides it, and sets another question.

I will begin.

Which well-known composer left his skull to be used as Yorick (of "Alas, poor Yorick" fame") in productions of Shakespeare's Hamlet?

[ 07. April 2016, 16:48: Message edited by: jacobsen ]

Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :

I assume there's a "no search engine" rule?

I will have a stab at Benjamin Britten.

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

Or could it have been Henry Purcell?

[ 07. April 2016, 17:01: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]

Posted by Doone (# 18470) on :

Handel?

Posted by Garasu (# 17152) on :

Didn't Verdi write a lot of Shakespeare-based operas?

Posted by Garasu (# 17152) on :

O.K. That one.

Of course....

Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

Nope to all of those. The answer appears in this month's edition of a musical publication. But I will post it if no-one else manages to. [Big Grin]

Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :

How well-known is this composer?

Posted by roybart (# 17357) on :

Tchaikovsky. But not the one everybody knows. This guy was Polish, name of Andre.

QUESTION: Donizetti wrote 3 operas that are sometimes marketed as the Three Queen Trilogy.

Who were the three queens?

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

Well, Mary Queen of Scots is one and Queen Elizabeth must be the second. Didn't he also write an "Anna Bolena"?

Posted by roybart (# 17357) on :

Correct!

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

Right then:

"How many lakes are there in the English Lake District?"

Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :

One!

AG

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

... is the correct answer! (For the uninitiated, all the lakes are "meres" or "waters" with the exception of Bassenthwaite Lake).

Over to you:

Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :

Holidaying next to Bassenthwaite helps... in fact, off that way very soon.

In a similar vein, then...

How many lakes are there in Scotland?

AG

Posted by Doone (# 18470) on :

None?

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

I think it's - again - one. (Lake of Mentieth).

Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :

It is indeed, Baptist Trainfan - it's the only natural lake in Scotland called "Lake" as opposed to Loch etc.

Back to you...

AG

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor. So where was his famous oratorio "Elijah" first performed?

Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

Liverpool

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

No.

Posted by Doone (# 18470) on :

Vienna?

Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :

Manchester

Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :

Birmingham (Town Hall)

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

Definitely Birmingham: it was commissioned by the Birmingham Festival in 1845.

Although Mendelssohn had been working on it for some time, and it was originally composed with the text in German, the first performance was in the English translation in 1846 in Birmingham; the first performance in German was after Mendelssohn's death.

Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :

If I am right, I'll hand over asking a question to l'organist. My knowledge of music is patchy and the school holiday is over so I'll have to stop procrastinating.

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

Just to confirm L'Organist's answer - totally correct.

Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :

48 hours and no question, so:

From Clare to Here was written by a singer songwriter for another group. Who wrote it? Who did he write it for and why? (And for bonus points, what does the singer songwriter say about the version sung by the group?)

eta: I can't type on a phone, standing on a commuter train

[ 13. April 2016, 07:28: Message edited by: Curiosity killed ... ]

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

Haven't a clue! [Biased]

Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

Ralph McTell wrote it, the Furies and Dave Arthur sang and recorded it, it's about Irish emigration to England, and RMcT described it as his 2nd most covered song.

Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :

According to Ralph McTell, in introduction to singing Clare to Here his other famous song, he wrote the song for the Fureys as payment for borrowing some equipment at a concert / on a tour when his broke. The Fureys said that they didn't want payment, they'd like a song, please. The phrase Clare to here came from one of the young Irish workers McTell knew in the 70s, and triggered this song.

McTell then disappeared on tour and came home to messages from the Fureys chasing their song. He managed to meet up with the one of the Fureys before they took off on tour. McTell sang the song through to whichever brother came round and gave him the words. The brother said, yes, yes, he had the song, and they toured with this song.

McTell says he hadn't got it and they sing it wrong. He is now going to sing the right version, because he wrote it and he should know.

Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

That's a much more comprehensive and accurate answer, CKTC. [Axe murder]

Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :

But you got it. I set the question, so should have known the answer.

Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

Ah so. Keep up, Jacobsen.

New question.

With which 19thC composer did the concertina player and guitarist Giulio Regondi share a concert platform in Leipzig?

Posted by roybart (# 17357) on :

Mendelssohn?

Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :

Weber?

Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

Roybart gets it.

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