Answers to the Friday Afternoon Challenge question.

[CTyankee]

1. Kiss Me Kate by Cole Porter, from Taming of the Shrew

2. Faust by Gounod, from Goethe's Faust.

3. The Great Gate at Kiev, from Rimski-Korsakov (one of the Pictures at an Exhibition).

4. La Traviata, Verdi, from novel La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas.

5. The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, from Beaumarchais play.

6. Midsummer Night’s Dream by Benjamin Britten.


Thanks to all who joined the Challenge this week. It was fun and, as usual, you guys just can't be stumped!

Just to keep you singing and dancing to Cole Porter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhvSpwbsTAA

See you next week!

[left is right]

1. I like your quizzes but

might I suggest that in the future you include a link to the quiz. Sometimes I miss the quiz and I am left with answers without questions. I much prefer questions without answers, if I am forced to choose between the two situations

[Angry Dragon]

2. Does this help

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1357320&mesg_id=1357320

[CTyankee]

5. Thanks for posting this! Of course, I'll be happy to post the link so that in the future

you (and anybody else who has missed the quiz on Friday) can play along at a different time...

Next week, back to the art, but with a rather devilish twist...

[pinboy3niner]

10. Even MORE devilish than your usual sadistic torture?

Oh, the humanity! :scared:


:evilgrin:


:hi:

[CTyankee]

11. No, this is devilish in a different way...sexier, if you will...

ah, the old masters, how well did they view womanhood!

We will see...

[elleng]

3. Marry Me Marry Me Marry Me!!!

You've done it again!

Bob Fosse! in red, sings first!

Brush Up your Shakespeare!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJIpp2Jj8AQ&feature=related

:hi:

[CTyankee]

4. I previewed it (again) before posting it here this morning and was delighted all over again.

That was a choreographed marvel! I believe Hermes Pan was the choreographer...he shoulda won an Oscar for that number alone.

You might also want to check out the fabulous "Where is the LIfe that Late I Led" sung by wonderful Howard Keel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ui18maOq0.

It contains the great line: "Where are you Alice? Still there in your pretty itty bitty Pitti Palace?"

And I seem to recall something like "I'd give up drinking coffee for Sanka, even Sanka, Bianca for you" somewhere in that musical...

[elleng]

6. Now that you mention it, I think we HAD that album when I was growing up!

Sure do remember Howard Keel's great, deep baritone? voice!

Bianca, the 2d love story!

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/kissmekate/bianca.htm


SO MANY of the lyrics from this show have not only stuck with me forever, but mention 'Cremona' to me and I'm THERE, We Open in Venice!!! My cultural heritage, thanks to Dad.

[CTyankee]

7. Heh. "Lots of quail in Cremona." It took me a while to understand what was meant

by "quail."

[elleng]

9. Oh yea, quaglia!!!

[CTyankee]

12. Hmmm, didn't know that. I was thinking about viewing women as "quail"

courtesy of my ex-husband...who, himself, was a special brand of sexist...

[Generic Other]

8. The question is how did I miss the quiz?

LOL.

[CTyankee]

13. The quiz appears mostly every Friday at 5 pm. I will be around all of July

so if you happen to be free, join us for a little frolic thru art (and sometimes other things). I try to make it a bit of fun. I hope you will enjoy it!