Renaissance Research "Conservatory Project" Pop-Quiz: Do You Know Your -- Largely 20th Century -- Oratorios, Song-Cycles, Vocal Symphonies And Art?

Column A:

Andriessen:

Bach:

Barber:

Berg:

Berio:

Berlioz:

Britten:

Foss:

Earl Kim:

Knussen:

Lutoslawski:

Mahler:

Messiaen:

Rachmaninov:

Rands:

Shostakovich:

Sibelius:

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Column B:

Les Illuminations

Time Cycle

Where Grief Slumbers

Whitman Settings

Chantefleurs et Chantefables

Symphony No. 4

Poèmes pour Mi

Vocalise

Canti Lunatici

Hadewijch

St. John Passion

B Minor Mass

Knoxville, Summer of 1915

Lulu Suite

Seven Early Songs

Folksongs

Les Nuits d’Été

Symphony No. 14

Luonnotar

St. Matthew Passion

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Images:

Silvestro Lega, The Pergola, 1868.
Oil on canvas, 75 × 93.5 cm (29 1/2 × 36 4/5 inches).
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 1920.
Oil on canvas, 30 1/2 × 44 1/2 cm (12 × 17 1/2 inches).
Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna
"Giorgio Morandi," Bologna.

Willem de Kooning, Marilyn Monroe, 1954.
Oil on canvas, 50 × 30 inches. Collection of Neuberger
Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, gift
of Roy R. Neuberger (Photo: Steven Sloman).

Alberto Giacometti, Head of a Man, 1956.
Oil on canvas, 42 × 33 cm (16 1/2 × 13 inches).
Private collection, Switzerland.

Jerome Witkin, Jeff Davies, 1980.
Oil on canvas, 72 × 48 inches. Palmer Museum of Art,
The Pennsylvania State University.

Image credits:

Di Piero, W. S. Out of Eden: Essays on Modern Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1991 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1n39n811/

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Source for Quiz: Bridge Records, Inc. Web page for Soprano Tony Arnold. With thanks.

'Tony Arnold's recording of George Crumb's "Ancient Voices of Children" (Bridge) was nominated for a 2006 Grammy award and was followed by a series of critically acclaimed recordings, including Elliott Carter's "Of Challenge and of Love" (Bridge); George Crumb's "Madrigals" (Bridge); Luciano Berio's Sequenza (Naxos); Milton Babbitt's "Quatrains" (Bridge); Stefan Wolpe's "Early Songs" (Bridge); and Tania Leon's "Singin' Sepia" (Bridge). Her upcoming recording of Gyorgy Kurtag's "Kafka Fragments" features a filmed segment with the composer. Ms. Arnold is currently Professor of Voice at The State University of New York at Buffalo.'