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What is the orchestral piece that opens an opera called?
Answer: Overture
Why: Rossini's overture to The Barber of Seville was recycled, having already opened two of his earlier operas.
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Who wrote the 'Symphony of a Thousand'?
Answer: Gustav Mahler
Why: Besides a huge orchestra, the Eighth calls for eight solo singers, two mixed choirs and a children's choir.
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Which instrument plays the high solo opening The Rite of Spring?
Answer: Bassoon
Why: Stravinsky wrote the solo so high on the bassoon that listeners can barely tell which instrument is playing.
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How does a trumpeter make the sound?
Answer: Buzzing lips
Why: Valves only route the air through extra tubing to lower the pitch; the buzzing lips are what start the sound.
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Which march ends Vienna's New Year's Concert as the crowd claps along?
Answer: Radetzky March
Why: It was written in 1848 by Johann Strauss I, father of the Johann Strauss II who composed The Blue Danube.
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Whose theme does Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra vary?
Answer: Henry Purcell
Why: Britten composed it for Instruments of the Orchestra, a British educational film released in 1946.
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