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SECTION
TWELVE: Elgar Trivia
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In his early twenties Elgar composed an Adagio Cantabile for wind quintet
which he whimsically dubbed . . .
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Grandpa's Old Fishing Boots
Mr Townshend's Side of Ham
Mrs Winslow's Soothing
Syrup
Father Julian's Soporific
Sermon
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Who wrote the
novel Marchcroft Manor (published in 1882)?
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Ann
Elgar
C
A Roberts
Rosa
Burley
Edward
Elgar
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Who, after first
hearing the 'Enigma' Variations, wrote in connection with the British
musical scene: "I sat up and said 'Whew!' I knew we had got it at
last."?
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Arthur
Conan Doyle
King
Edward VII
Sir
Granville Bantock
George
Bernard Shaw
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Who said to the conductor John
Barbirolli about The Dream of
Gerontius: "My son,
that is a sublime masterpiece"?
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Lorenzo
Barbirolli
Father Roy Fright
Cardinal
George Basil Hume
Pope
Pius XII
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What is the
correct pronunciation of 'Gerontius' in the title of Elgar's oratorio?
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guh-RON-ti-us
juh-RON-ti-us
juh-RON-chus
There
is no clear consensus
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Who referred to
the Pomp and Circumstance Marches as "those 'pompous and
circumstantial' Marches"?
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Charles
Villiers Stanford
August
Jaeger
Frederick
Delius
Dylan
Thomas
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Who is reputed
to have derisively compared Elgar's Symphony No. 1 to St Pancras Station?
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Sir
Thomas Beecham
Constant
Lambert
Sir Donald Francis Tovey
Leonard
Berstein
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Elgar's Violin Concerto shares the same opus
number as the Violin Concerto of which other great composer?
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Ludwig
van Beethoven
Felix
Bartholdy Mendelssohn
Johannes
Brahms
Jean
Sibelius
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Elgar dedicated a part-song called Owls 'To my friend Pietro d'Alba'.
Who was Pietro d'Alba?
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A
choir leader named Peter White
A
Renaissance composer that Elgar admired
Elgar's
daughter's pet rabbit
The
head waiter at Elgar's favourite Italian restaurant
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Elgar has been
attributed with describing the audience at the premiere of his Second
Symphony as . . .
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'stuffed
pigs'
'gobbling
turkeys'
'braying
donkeys'
'boiled
sheep'
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On 1st October
1912, Elgar conducted a performance of The Music Makers at the Birmingham
Festival (in England). With whom did he share the podium that evening?
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Richard Strauss, conducting his Also Sprach Zarathustra
Jean
Sibelius, conducting his Fourth Symphony
Frederick
Delius, conducting his Florida Suite
Sir
Granville Bantock, conducting Beethoven's Sixth Symphony
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Elgar's last
completed work was entitled Mina.
This short piece for small orchestra was named after . . .
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a
rabbit
a
cat
a
dog
a
horse
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