WSC 2023 Art and Music

How was most of the poetry from around 750BC to 350BC – the songs of Homer, Sappho, and others - shared?

• composed and sung as music

• dramatic readings

• stage play

• acted out by prisoners in the colosseum and other arenas

Bob Dylan's 'It's the flight of the Bumblebee' was inspired by which classical piece?

• Rimsky-Korsakov's The Flight of the Bumblebee

• Beethoven's Symphony no. 5

• Mozart's Don Giovanni

• Bach's Goldberg Variations

The director Stanley Kubrick fired his composer and replaced all music in his film with classical pieces when making which film?

• Full Metal Jacket

• Paths of Glory

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

• A Clockwork Orange

Which classical music conductor was described as 'a slave to the composer'?

• Arturo Toscanini

• Wilhelm Furtwangler

• Herbert von Karajan

• Claudio Abbado

What is the name of the robot conductor conducted the opera Scary Beauty, written by Japanese composer Keiichiro Shibuya?

• C-3PO

• Optimus 2357

• S1mphonie

• Android Alter 3

Which great maestro (conductor) said “If I don’t become Brahms or Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky when I’m conducting their works, then it won’t be a great performance.”?

• Wilhelm Furtwangler

• Leonard Bernstein

• John Williams

• Arturo Toscanini

Which Beatles' song began with the idea of playing the familiar chords in Beethoven's famous Moonlight Sonata—but in reverse.

• I Want You

• Because

• Let it Be

• Don't Let Me Down

Which century saw the rise of a new kind of professional musician: the conductor, whose job it is to oversee, in rehearsal and then in real time, the performance of a piece?

• C17th

• C18th

• C20th

• C19th

Before the role of 'conductor' was created, who typically led the orchestra?

• The composer

• First chair

• The orchestrator

• The concert master

The earliest substantial [Ancient Greek] musical document, found in ____, preserves part of a chorus from the Athenian tragedian Euripides’ Orestes of 408BC. (year found?)

• 1676

• 1892

• 1801

• 1998