Here‘s the Friday Afternoon Challenge for DU music lovers: The Musical Interpretation!

[CTyankee]

Here are six examples suggesting the art from one medium that has been transformed into one in music!

Can you name both the works suggested here and their (non-musical) predecessors?

Note: Using Google is fine but please, not Goggles...it kinda defeats the purpose...

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[CTyankee]

1. OK, who's gonna jump in?

Somebody's got to be first!

[MilesColtrane]

2. #3 Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky

Inspired by a Viktor Hartmann retrospective in St. Petersburg.


I'd like to try to figure out the rest, but I have to go to work.

[CTyankee]

5. Hey, that was a toughie...but I guess not for a musician!

The title is "The Great Gate at Kiev".

[alsame]

3. #1 - Kiss Me Kate from Taming of the Shrew?

[CTyankee]

8. Good! I was beginning to think I was just too old to get a response on that one!

That's going back to the 50's...but what a musical that was!

[alsame]

15. I watched it dozens of times as a kid, every time it

was on TV - I loved it and knew all the songs! That scene looks like it's from the "It's Too Darn Hot" number :)

[CTyankee]

26. No, it's from the "marry me, marry me, marry me" number.

Or "Every Tom, Dick or Harry." Take your pick.

I just loved the repetition of "Tom, Dick or Harry every Harry, Tom and Dick, a-digga dick, dick, dick, a-digga dick dick dick. Pretty saucy for the 50s, but it WAS Cole Porter, after all...

[alsame]

32. Ah, yes, I remember that one. Very true about how saucy some

of those lyrics were for the time. "Always true to you darling...in my fashion" :rofl:

[elleng]

40. Hell No, Dearie! Just got here late!

:toast:

[CTyankee]

50. Hey! Glad you got here, right on time! Needed some help!

[blogslut]

38. Darn! I knew that one!

My dad played one of the gangsters in a community theater production. I got cast in the part of Lois Lane when I was in high school but the production was cancelled. Then, when I was living in Dallas, I worked at a supper club and one of the performers was the legendary Julie Wilson - who played Lois Lane on Broadway. When the club owner decided to shut the place down, Julie was the one who gave the final show. She sang Why Can't You Behave just for me.

sigh

[alsame]

43. What a great story! Sorry I got the answer first, but this is

only the second time I've EVER been right on these challenges, so it won't happen too often :D

[blogslut]

54. It's a wonderful musical

So very clever and the tunes are the best! :hi:

[gkhouston]

58. I love the mobsters doing "Brush Up Your Shakespeare". n/t

[blogslut]

60. Me too!

It's such a great plot device, them being made part of the play. So wonderful. That musical might be the best reconfiguration of Shakespeare, ever!

[CTyankee]

46. Ohhh, what a great memory...and how sad that must have been for you...

I am sorry...sad memories...

[blogslut]

53. Not sad at all

Wonderful memories. I was a bit bummed that I didn't get to perform the part but that's showbiz. I was sad that club closed down but I had an extraordinary time while it lasted. I once asked Julie why she never sang that Cole Porter song during her act and she got a far off look and changed the subject. The fact that she called me out and told the audience she was singing it for me - that was one of the highlights of my life.

:hi:

[ret5hd]

4. Your list is not displaying...

i see the numbers 1-6 in a column, but no entries after each number.

[CTyankee]

6. Oh, dear. Mine are showing and so are others...can't imagine what happened...

Nothing at all?

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. Number 2 is

Miller's Analogy Test question number 34.

That's the one I missed when I applied for grad school and scored enough to qualify for MENSA.

I have no clue......is one
through the looking glass or a Dali painting?

[CTyankee]

9. What is the Miller's Analogy Test?

No, these are pretty normal musical interpretations of other works, whether in visual art or in literature. Nothing really weird. All part of the the "canon" you probably had in college...really normal stuff...

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. Sample questions of the MAT

1. HAVOC : DEVASTATION

A. clarification:mystification
B. surplus: shortage
C. farce: sham
D. turmoil:order
E. timidity:audacity

2. INFAMOUS : UNFAVORABLE

A. mellow:favorable
B. hospitable:unfavorable
C. vindictive: favorable
D. gigantic: unfavorable
E. lax:favorable

3. LETHARGIC : ENERGY

A. despondent: melancholy
B. leisurely: relaxation
C. notorious:infamy
D. mellow: wrath
E. lavish: extravagance

4. BELLOW : FURY

A. snicker: hatred
B. hiss:joy
C. giggle:dread
D. yawn: excitement
E. gasp: surprise

5. DISMANTLE : ASSEMBLE

A. shirk: malinger
B. pamper: mistreat
C. mar: disfigure
D. rant: rave
E. abound:teem

6. DIALOGUE : PLAYWRIGHT

A. farce:buffoon
B. narrative: character
C. overture:composer
D. pact: humorist
E. clarification: beneficiary

7. FLU : MALADY

A. finale:overture
B. felony: misdemeanor
C. fun: farce
D. flea: parasite
E. fire: hearth

8. MEDLEY : MISCELLANEOUS

A. truce: hostile
B. luster: dull
C. fledging: experienced
D. remnant: partial
E. malady: fatal



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Analogies_Test


The Test is used as a GRE and also for MENSA

I have no clue on your test today but its late here
and I'm sleepy.... I always look forward to them.

[CTyankee]

51. And where do you see my question falling?

[canetoad]

10. Probably way off base, but

Is No.1 from 'The 5000 Fingers of Dr T'? The only work by Dr Seuss to be made into a film.

on edit: OK, didn't see the answer above and Dr T was in colour. My bad

[CTyankee]

11. No. 1? No, it's from "Kiss Me Kate" which of course is a remake of "Taming of the Shrew."

nt

[gkhouston]

35. LOL, I love the scene where they're confiscating the kid's toys

near the beginning of the movie. I should show this film to my kid someday.

[hedgehog]

12. #4 is a scene from La Traviata by Verdi, based on

Camille (La Dame Aux Camillas)by Dumas

[CTyankee]

27. Ah, do you know this beautiful opera?

[malaise]

14. Love your Friday threads

:hi:

[CTyankee]

49. And I thank you so much for your compliment!

My deepest gratitude to you...I thank you so much for your kindness...

[Aerows]

16. #2 - Three Musketeers Novel n/t

[hedgehog]

17. I'm thinking #5 is either Barber of Seville or Figaro.....

[gkhouston]

24. Nozze di Figaro. So the underlying work would be

La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro by Beaumarchais

[CTyankee]

28. of course. Did the illustration help?

[gkhouston]

30. Actually, it's that striped skirt that seems to get used in every production. LOL. n/t

[CTyankee]

33. Gawd, ain't that right! I think it's Standard with the Costume Company that supplies these

local Opera companies...still, it 's hard not to love it, as long as it is sung well...

[Call Me Wesley]

18. Besides the already revealed Mussorgsky (I can read this,) here's number 6:

Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakespeare.

The others escape me. ;)

[gkhouston]

19. I think #4 is La Traviata (Verdi), and the preceding work was

La dame aux Camélias (Dumas).

[PotatoChip]

36. Sorry CTYankee, for taking this a bit off track,

but I just can't help but notice, that the gentleman the right in #4 (presumably) approaching the brunette on the left looks a bit like Robert Reich. :hide:


But on a more related note, #4 (imho) looks VERY recent (ie. 1980's) Despite the mid-19th century clothing. Look at the hairdoo's... lol!

[gkhouston]

37. Yeah, but the Robert Reich look-alike isn't actually a singer.

He's a dressed-up stage manager who's wandered on stage to tell the soprano that she shouldn't have written her words on her glove, even if she can't remember them, because the people in the orchestra can see them. :P

You're right about the men's hairstyles.

[hedgehog]

20. #6 - someone made an opera of Midsummer Night's Dream?

If so, what does it sound like? Anybody ever hear it?

[gkhouston]

21. Britten did. It's good, if you're not too much of a traditionalist. n/t

[Call Me Wesley]

23. Sounds like a musical ...

I'm not fond of it.

[hedgehog]

22. #2 - Otello!

[gkhouston]

25. Really? Damn, I'd kill somebody if I had to wear that hat, too. n/t

[CTyankee]

31. No worries, since it is not Otello...you are safe! (but the hat is cool). nt

[CTyankee]

29. It is not Otello.

[gkhouston]

34. Oh! La Damnation de Faust by Gounod.

Previous works by Goethe and Marlowe, and probably a zillion other people.

[CTyankee]

41. Oh, how great you are! It is wonderful...Gounod in all his glory!

Goody-good by everybody who guessed this!

LOVE the bird theme! And the guy is really repulsive when you think about it for about 3 seconds...

[gkhouston]

42. LOL, like many Republicans. I think Traviata's my favorite of all

of these, possibly because I heard it so much growing up, as it was my dad's personal favorite. He used to get out his opera records on the weekend. When he was growing up back in the hills, he used to rush to get done with the plowing so he could listen to Live from the Met on the radio.

[CTyankee]

44. My mother loved that broadcast, too! What a nice thing it was for her too!

What a lovely memory you have of your father. I am stopped in my steps and in tears over it...and...I thank you for it...

[gkhouston]

57. I'm glad your mom heard it, too. I myself listen to it when I can.

I'll bet the people who made the decision to broadcast those performances all those years ago would have been stunned to learn of how many lives they'd affect.

[elleng]

39. #1, Kiss Me Kate!

We open in Venice
I Hate Men
etc etc etc!!!
THANKS, Yank, for the memories! Will be humming all night!

[CTyankee]

45. I know! I't's awful, we have this thing in our head for hours!

But I just love this scene in the movie. It's pure dance, just joy, I cannot describe how joyful this is unless you go to youtube and get it.

[elleng]

47. Kiss Me Kate's maybe my favorite musical.

(I know, that's saying a lot! There's West Side Story, South Pacific, etc etc etc)
Brush Up your Shakespeare!

[CTyankee]

48. Isn't it wonderful? I love Kiss me Kate. What a great show!

It is so much fun.

But I don't know if it hasn't been revived too "much."

We just don't know, do we?

[EFerrari]

52. When I was studying for my qualifyng exams, "Brush up your Shakespeare"

was my answering machine message. lol

[elleng]

55. That is SO KEWL, EF!

The girls today in society
Go for classical poetry,
So to win their hearts one must quote with ease
Aeschylus and Euripides.
But the poet of them all
Who will start 'em simply ravin'
Is the poet people call
The bard of Stratford-on-Avon.

[CTyankee]

56. Now, THAT is fun!

Thanks, elleng, for that! it is great...

[gkhouston]

59. LOL, when I was in my dark days of grad school, I learned a lot

of Gilbert & Sullivan. Somehow, the trials and tribulations of people loving above/below their station took away a lot of anxiety. :7

But yes, I'm a Cole Porter fan, too.

[CTyankee]

61. Well, as I like to say often, art always saves you.

I read somewhere that a judge in the war crimes trials of the former Yugoslavia used to go to the Mauritshuis Museum in the Hague to look at the Vermeers. It helped him after viewing photos of war atrocities. He found the Vermeers to be quieting to his mind and helping him deal with the horrible images he had had to see.