All Entries Tagged With: "Benjamin Britten"

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Sinfonia da Requiem Op 20
Lacrymosa: Andante ben misurato
Dies irae: Allegro con fuoco
Requiem aeternam: Andante molto tranquillo
Britten’s largest work for symphony was born in rather curious circumstances. It was the result of a commission by the British Council for a piece to commemorate the 2600th anniversary of Japan’s Mikado dynasty. Why [...]

Elora Festival 2008 Highlights

The Elora Festival is now in its 29th year and presents a widely varying program including classical choral and chamber music, jazz and folk over four weeks in July and August. Elora is about roughly an hour and a half northwest of Toronto, half an hour from Kitchener and an hour and a [...]

KW Symphony 2008/09 Season Highlights

Kitchener-Waterloo is about an hour west of Toronto, an hour east of London, and an hour and half from Niagara Falls. If you live somewhere between here and there, take a drive over some night and take in a concert with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony.

12th & 13th September John Corigliano Promenade Overture, [...]

Pub Quiz For Classical Music Nerds: Answers

Take the original quiz.
String Theory
(fill in the blanks and name that string player)
1. Jascha Heifetz (violin)
2. Martin Beaver (violin, Tokyo String Quartet)
3. Lionel Tertis (violist)
4. Mischa Maisky (cello)
5. Eliot Fisk (do guitarist’s count as string players?)
Order Up
Arrange the following in ascending order of composition date.
Quartert For The End of Time , Four Last Songs, The [...]

Pub Quiz For Classical Music Nerds

Quiz #4: And the winner is….

Giorgia from Opera Bouffe. She correctly identified the movements as belonging to Cello Suite No. 3 Op. 87 by Benjamin Britten
Honourable mention must go to Damiel who wrote in with the Cello Suites in general. He beat Giorgia to the finish line but wasn’t able to give the specific information required. [...]

Quiz #4 Second Clue

No one has written in with the answer as of yet, an OM quiz record so far. Perhaps yesterday’s clues were a bit vague.
Let’s narrow it down a little:
1) The opus number is a not a prime number, nor is it even.
2) The composition was written in either 1964, 1967 or 1971 making the Presidents [...]