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RG: Lowest note: Osmin's aria from "The Abduction from the Seraglio" (low D) -- I was really into this opera in my coloratura days!!
>>> Osmin’s aria: good choice, I don’t mean to be challenging, and I am not a musician or music major, was it a D or E?
Well, I had picked Haydn in that bowling question because of the England connection, but jI had really vascillated between him and my other choice: MOZART (which just HAS to be the correct answer
>> Mozart composed K498 trio for piano, viola, and clarinet, the Kegelstatt on a bowling lane. Mozart loved the viola, and had written some of the most glorious music for this instrument.
RG: As for that Russian violinist and Tchaikovsky, I'm at a real loss, considering that by 1942, there wasn't even a symphony orchestra left in Leningrad (they'd already been evacuated to Siberia). My only other possible guess is: DAVID OISTRAKH
>>> David Oistrakh, good choice. I believe they actually called back some musicians who were in the front line for the Shostakovich #7. They managed to find > 50 musicians. Oistrakh’s performance of the Tchaikovsky v cto in the midst of air raid sirens was legendary. Sigh… how I wish they have recorded that.
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8. Identify the opera and composer:
Mahler and Toscanini feuded over which one should conduct a particular opera at the Met.
What was the opera?
9. Identify Composer A and B
This was recorded by composer A
As B stepped down, radiant with the sense of achievement. I came forward, thrilled by the experience of hearing the work. The moment could not have been better chosen. Yet, after the first exchange of greetings, the same melancholy thought struck us both.
B: “What? 12 years? Can it be 12 years since we day dreamed together in Campagna?
A: “And in the Baths of Caracalla.”
B: “Ah, still the scoffer, I see, always ready to mock me!”
A: “No, my mocking days are over. I said it to test your memory and see whether you had forgiven me for my irreverence. In fact I mock so little that I’m going to ask you at once in all seriousness to exchange……”
Answer: Composers A and B were
i. Lizt and Chopin
ii. Chopin and Berlioz
iii. Berlioz and Mendelssohn
iv. Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann
v. Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann
10.0 What did A asked B to exchange?
i. orchestras
ii. wedding vows
iii. Batons
iv. Pianos
PS to add
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I score an embrassing _____, how about you?
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. If I'm right about B and M, it's got to be iii. Batons. 
