Whether you're a seasoned Tuesday Trivia pro or a first-time player, you're in the right spot to test your classical chops! Each week, we bring together five classical trivia questions ranging from common knowledge to the obscure (and no matter how you score, the chance to learn something new makes everyone a winner).
RULES: Tuesday Trivia is open to everyone, but prizes will only be awarded to residents of the United States. To qualify, responses must be received by 12 p.m. (Noon) on the Thursday after each week’s Tuesday Trivia is released. A winner will be randomly selected from the pool of participants who score the highest for that week.
This American composer and flutist (and founder of Imani Winds) was named Performance Today’s 2020 Classical Woman of the Year.
Stemming from the light-and-color focused paintings of a group of Paris-based artists, this term refers to a musical movement characterized by the exploration of “color” (timbre). (Composers of the period, including Claude Debussy, often did not appreciate the application of the term to their work.)
This composer’s only teaching post had an important role in the development of French music: he taught Gabriel Fauré, who then taught Maurice Ravel (and both revered him).
Spies thwart an assassination attempt during a performance of _________ in the 2015 film “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.”
The incidental music Felix Mendelssohn composed for a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream contains his famous...
