Welcome to Live Klassisk's new monthly quiz! Who is hiding behind the anagram, and why is there a Spellemann Award lying in the Dagsnytt 18 studio at NRK? Test your knowledge of classical music and today's music scene!
THE MONTH'S ANAGRAM
1) LAND SIDEVEIS
(Hint: Our world's Erling Braut Haaland? We certainly think she always lands exactly the right way!)
OTHER QUESTIONS
2: Who left behind their Spellemann Award in NRK's Dagsnytt 18 studio last week, and why?
3: Norway's longest-lived professional string quartet, VERTAVO, celebrated an anniversary in October. How many years have they played together? A) 30 years B) 40 years, C) 50 years
4: In which city did Mozart die?
5: Which piece of music does the music notation at the top of the page come from?
6: What do the composers Franz Liszt, Jean Sibelius, Richard Wagner, Olivier Messiaen and Hans Zimmer have in common?
7: Which music is used in the iconic opening scene of Stanley Kubrick's «2001: A Space Odyssey»?
8: VETRA is the title of Ragnhild Hemsing's latest album, and is a dialect word from Valdres. What does vetra mean?
9: Who wrote the opera Bajazzo or Pagliacci, which is being staged by Ringsakeroperaen now in November?
10: The 8 Norwegian professional symphony orchestras play in public 40 times in November in Norway – how many of these performances are conducted by female conductors?
THE ANSWERS:
ANAGRAM:
1) LISE DAVIDSEN
OTHER QUESTIONS
2) SARA ÔVINGE – In protest against the Spellemann Award's merging of the categories «classical» and «contemporary music».
3) B) 40 years
4) VIENNA
5) BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONY NO. 5 (FROM THE 3RD MOVEMENT)
6) THEY ALL HAD/ HAVE SYNAESTHESIA – E.g. in that they experience music in colours and link particular colours to keys.
7) RICHARD STRAUSS: ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA
8) WINTER
9) RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
10) 9 - Tabita Berglund (DNO&B x2), Marta Gardolinska (SSO), Emilia Hoving (SSO), Han-Na Chang (TSO), Gemma New (KSO), Ingunn Korsgård Hagen (BFOx2), Holly Hyun Choe (KORK)
