Ether Game Daily Music Quiz

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Ethercast is the companion podcast to Ether Game, a weekly music trivia show produced by WFIU Public Radio in Bloomington, Indiana. On each episode of Ethercast, host Christopher Burrus explores big questions in the world of classical music.

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R. Strauss: Don Quixote

January 06, 2012 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Tilting at windmills in Carnegie Hall?

Schumann: Davidsbündler Dances, “Wild and Joyful”

January 05, 2012 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Read all about it!

Celebration!

January 04, 2012 16:45 - 1 Byte

Surprisingly, over half of this composer's output involves voices in some manner, and the six last masses are considered to be at the pinnacle of his contributions to the genre. His primary duty was to supply a mass each year for performance in conjunction with the celebration of the name-day of Maria Hermenegild.

Bach: Mass in B minor, “Et in terra pax”

January 04, 2012 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A musical job transfer!

Rossini: Barber of Seville, “Largo al factotum”

January 03, 2012 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A musical jack-of-all-trades!

Glass: Dracula, “Mina on the Terrace”

January 02, 2012 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Talk about juggling jobs!

Puccini: La Bohème: Act III Quartet

December 30, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Love won and lost in the snow

Piazzolla: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, Winter

December 29, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A spicy winter down south

Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death, Trepak

December 28, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Death in winter. . .

Year in Review 2011

December 28, 2011 01:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here's a hint: sometimes penny-pinching can lead to artistic inspiration...

Chopin: Etude No. 11 in A minor, “The Winter Wind"

December 27, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Keeping warm at the keyboard

Schubert: Winterreise, Frühlingstraum

December 26, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Let's just skip winter. . .

Bortniansky: Cherubic Hymn, No. 7

December 23, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Chubby little winged friends

Tartini: Cello Concerto in A, Allegro Assai

December 22, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A cocktail in La Brea.

Beethoven: 12 Variations on a Russian Dance

December 21, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Just something off the top of the head

Gifts

December 21, 2011 01:00 - 1 Byte

This ballet begins with the most wonderful thing in the world: presents! Family and friends arrive bearing season’s greetings and ready to party. During the festivities, a mysterious guest arrives with his own bag of gifts for the children.

Tchaikovsky: Final Waltz

December 20, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: sugar plums fairies and mice

Mahler: Symphony No. 1, "Titan," Excerpt

December 16, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: It's a rollercoaster ride of musical moods

Adams: Tromba Lontana

December 15, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Some very strange music for a celebration?

Gluck: Orpheus and Euridice: Excerpts From Act II

December 14, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Here are some very seductive harmonies

Beethoven: Rage Over A Lost Penny

December 13, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Goodness! Calm yourself down!!

Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Excerpts

December 12, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Don't fall for this guy's seductive ways

Janacek: Prelude, From The House Of The Dead

December 09, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Out of a grave situation

Dufay: Nuper Rosarum Flores

December 08, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: An over-arching structure

Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzona No. 14

December 07, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Sacred surround sound

Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition: Great Gate Of Kiev

December 06, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: It looked good on paper!

Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue

December 05, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: An ode to modern America

Adams: El Niño, "Woe unto them that call evil good"

December 02, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: This is not the semi-regular weather pattern of the Pacific Ocean

Rubinstein: The Demon, Caucasian Dance

December 01, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A pianist conjures up diabolical themes

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Witches' Sabbath

November 30, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Double, double, toil and trouble!

The Great, White North

November 30, 2011 01:00 - 1 Byte

This composer was also one of the most noted violin virtuosi of his time. One witness claimed that his cadenzas “really terrified me because such [cadenzas] have not been nor can ever be played.” This virtuosity translated into his compositions as well, as is evidenced in this piece.

Haydn: Symphony No. 96, Fourth Movement

November 29, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: It's simply inexplicable!

Paganini: Violin Concerto No.2, "La Campanella"

November 28, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Deal or no deal, this guy can play!

Rodgers and Hart: Boys From Syracuse: “Oh, Diogenes”

November 25, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: an Elizabethan gets a jazzy Greek makeover…

Leonard Bernstein: Candide, Overture

November 23, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a very “green” philosophy…

All You Can Eat!

November 23, 2011 01:00 - 1 Byte

This composer loved food as much, or maybe even more, than he loved music. In one letter, he raced through a description of the opening of a new opera, so that he could write about a new salad recipe. His favorite dishes were turkey stuffed with truffles and most anything with foie gras. He even had many different dishes named after him!

Richard Strauss: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

November 22, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: some very ancient wisdom given a modern twist…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Bastian and Bastienne, Overture

November 21, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a “social contract” is okay, but opera singers prefer the real thing…

Porter: I’ve Got You Under My Skin

November 18, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: there ain’t no cure for it…

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Mvt. 3

November 17, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a troubled genius…

Bizet: Carmen, Chorus of Cigarette Girls

November 16, 2011 14:00 - 1 Byte

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em…

Drink Up!

November 16, 2011 01:00 - 1 Byte

The composer's first symphony was a flop. Critics and audiences were universal in their disdain: the young composer was crushed, and did not compose until nearly three years later. The causes of the failed premiere were several: the style of this composer was different, and it didn't help that the conductor of the premiere was drunk on the podium..

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The Ivory Tower

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