Ether Game Daily Music Quiz
840 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★ - 2 ratingsEthercast 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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Donizetti: Daughter of the Regiment, Overture
November 03, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Slapstick on the battlefield…
Monteverdi: Madrigals of War and Love, “I burn, I rage”
November 02, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Fiery passions burn in Italy…
Stealing!
November 02, 2011 00:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here's a hint: or St. Petersburg
Beethoven: Wellington’s Victory, Victory Symphony
November 01, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: It’s one of the first orchestral showstoppers
Gounod: Faust, Soldier’s Chorus
October 31, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Marching to a very operatic beat
Rodgers and Hart: You Are Too Beautiful
October 28, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: you ain’t remembered nothin’ yet…
Ives: The Circus Band
October 27, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: the Memory Circus is coming to town…
Gottschalk: Memories of Havana
October 26, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: New world recollections…
Headless Harmonies
October 26, 2011 00:00 - 1 ByteThis composer, or rather, the fictional “artist,” reflects upon love, losing, and murdering of a “beloved” who is depicted by a recurring musical theme. In this movement, the artist has taken opium and, in his drug-induced dream, has killed his beloved. He is then a witness to his own execution as he marches up the scaffold steps to be beheaded.
Liszt: Reminiscences of Don Juan
October 25, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: remembering opera on the keyboard…
Schubert: Winterreise, "The Linden Tree"
October 24, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: come inside and warm up!
Praetorius: Terpsichore, Entry And Courante
October 21, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: It’s a Renaissance dance party!
Mendelssohn: Scottish Symphony, Second Movement
October 20, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Music from the Highlands
Hildegard of Bingen: Play Of Virtues
October 19, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: She’s sure preaching to the choir
Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio, Overture
October 18, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Opera goes Deutsch!
Steiner: Gone With The Wind, Main Title
October 14, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Oscars for (almost) everybody!
Bernstein: Suite from “On the Waterfront”
October 13, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a “contender” of a film score…
The Mighty Dollar
October 12, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteAround the time this composer began this symphony, he got married, but it was a failure, in part because his sexual proclivities lay elsewhere. With a spiral into depression and attempted suicide, the symphony was understandably put on hold. By the end of the year, however, he had found encouragement from a generous (and wealthy) patron.
Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G minor
October 12, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: playing on the keys of history…
The Art Of Construction
October 12, 2011 00:00 - 1 ByteIn 1857, with the first two operas of a larger cycle completed, the composer left our teaser partway through Act II, and did not return to his hero until 1869. In the meantime, this composer wrote two operas, his marriage fell apart, he was kicked out of Vienna for debt, and he acquired his most influential patron, King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Puccini: La Bohéme, “O soave fanciulla”
October 11, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: music therapy, Italian-style…
Mozart: Serenade for Winds, K. 361
October 10, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a first-rate film about being second-best…
Antheil: Ballet Mechanique
October 07, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: “Paris, we have lift-off…”
Biber: “Mystery” Sonata 3, “The Nativity”
October 06, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: in- and out-of-tune…
Superstar Syndrome
October 05, 2011 13:35 - 1 ByteThe technique of this composer and performer was so frightfully good that many claimed that he was in league with the Devil. His flashy first violin concerto is filled with deft maneuvers like left hand pizzicato, rapid thirds, and an abundance of harmonics. These techniques led many of his contemporaries to call the concerto unplayable.
Mahler: The Miller, "Sorrowful Song”
October 05, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: familiar instrument, made from gruesome stuff.
J. S. Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier II: Prelude in c sharp
October 04, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: fully functional…
Berg: Seven Early Songs, "Night" and "Summer Days"
September 30, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: youthful efforts get a second look…
Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, "I Believe I Hear Again Her Voice”
September 29, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: what kind of hero is named “Nadir”?
Borodin: Prince Igor, Konchakovna’s Aria
September 28, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a musically moonlighting scientist…
That's Ancient History
September 28, 2011 00:00 - 1 ByteIn this piece, the goddess Minerva reawakens in modern Greece and is devastated to find her homeland occupied by the Ottoman Turks. Luckily, Minerva is reassured that the light of Classical Greek culture has conveniently been passed on to the Austrian empire.
Brahms: Symphony 1, First Movement
September 27, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: an application for admission into the “B” club
Beethoven: To The Distant Beloved
September 26, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: no cuts allowed!
Elgar: Pomp And Circumstance, March No. 1
September 23, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Come and get your diploma!
Grainger: Molly On The Shore
September 22, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A musical stroll by the seashore
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, "Glory To Thee"
September 21, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Preaching to the choir!
Afterlife
September 21, 2011 00:00 - 1 ByteThis composer's operas were more popular outside of his hometown; in fact, and earlier opera had been a huge hit in a Bohemian city, leading to a commission for an operatic premiere. The composer's response to this commission was to produce what has probably become the most well-known telling of the tale of an infamous lover.
Lerner And Loewe: My Fair Lady, Excerpts
September 19, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Watch what you say!
Gershwin: Girl Crazy, “But Not For Me”
September 16, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: mad for the ladies…
Britten: Rejoice In The Lamb
September 15, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a spiritual game of ‘cat-and-mouse’…
Handel: Orlando, Act II Conclusion
September 14, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: saving poor Roland from himself…
Based On The Book
September 14, 2011 00:00 - 1 ByteThe score for this film was nominated for an Oscar, but lost to another movie just as popular. If sheer musical girth had been a factor, the score heard here certainly would have won as it is present under nearly the entire movie, just under four hours of music. Even more amazing, the composer worked on eleven other film scores in this same year.
R. Schumann: Cello Concerto
September 13, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: rough mental waters ahead…
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote
September 12, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: sorrowful countenances and agile windmills…
Prokofiev: “The Crusaders In Pskov” From Alexander Nevsky
September 09, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: history meets the movie soundstage
Offenbach: “Can-Can” from La Gaité Parisienne
September 08, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: from the dance hall to the concert hall
Handel: 12 Variations on “See the Conquering Hero Comes”
September 07, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: musical down-sizing, anyone?
Before Email
September 07, 2011 00:00 - 1 ByteWhile finishing up this selection in a village outside Vienna, this composer also wrote a strange document that he never sent. It contains the composer's realization of that his worsening condition. Of course, that wasn’t his only mysterious letter – there’s still the one addressed to an unknown someone.
Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe
September 06, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A meeting of music and theater
Gershwin: Suite from Porgy and Bess
September 05, 2011 13:00 - 1 ByteCan you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Broadway meets the bayou