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MEMORIAL DAY AND MUSIC

Classic Ross Amico

Test your knowledge of war songs, composers, and commemorative works

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1.Subtitle of Roy Harris symphony commemorating Civil War battle
3.Graveside military bugle melody
9.George M. Cohan: “The Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming…” (2 words)
10.Subtitle of Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 3, inspired by experiences in WWI
13.Bach-loving contrapuntalist, left unfinished requiem for German dead of WWI
15.Nightly bombing campaign, backdrop to Bernard Stevens symphony dedicated to fallen friend
18.Handel oratorio quoted in Bernard Herrmann’s “For the Fallen”
20.Theme to Ken Burns’ “The Civil War,” “_______ Farewell”
22.WWII bandleader whose plane disappeared over English Channel
25.Elegiac Samuel Barber music for strings
26.“A Shropshire Lad” composer, killed on the Somme
28.“M*A*S*H” theme song, composed by Johnny Mandel, “_______ is Painless”
29.54th Mass. Infantry drama, score by James Horner, performed by Harlem Boys Choir
33.Ravel piece dedicated to the memory of lost musician friends, “Le _______ de Couperin”
35.Kevin Puts Pulitzer Prize winning opera about Christmas truce on Western Front
38.Trench warfare agent, curtailed life of composer André Caplet
39.Charles Ives precursor to Memorial Day
41.Whitman poem set by Holst & Vaughan Williams, “Dirge for Two ________”
44.Copland instrumental sonata, dedicated to Lt. Harry H. Dunham, lost in the Pacific
45.Ivor Novello song, recorded by John McCormack, “Keep the _________ Burning”
47.Britten “War Requiem” poet
48.Walt Whitman: “Beat! Beat! _____!”
50.Albinoni attribution used as theme for film “Gallipoli”
51.Frank Bridge instrumental sonata, dedicated to Ernest Bristow Farrar, killed in action
52.John Foulds’ Armistice Day memorial to dead of all nations, “A _____ Requiem”
53.Vera Lynn morale booster, used to ironic effect in “Dr. Strangelove”
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2.John Duffy Pearl Harbor memorial, “A Time for ___________”
4.Haydn Wood WWI hit, “Roses of _______”
5.Civil War song, “When ______ Comes Marching Home Again”
6.Sandburg futility-of-war poem, inspiration for Romeo Cascarino’s “Blades of _____”
7.Memorial Day tradition, featuring bands, veterans, and vehicles
8.WWI song, “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘em Down on the ____ (After They’ve Seen Paree?)”
11.WWI favorite, recorded by John McCormack, “It’s a Long Way to _________”
12.National anthem quoted in Debussy’s “Berceuse héroique”
14.Honegger sacred subtitle for symphonic reaction to horrors of war
16.Colonel memorialized, with “colored regiment,” in Ives’ “Three Places in New England”
17.Location of field in John McCrae poppy poem, set by Ives
19.Pacific theater TV series scored by Richard Rodgers
21.Elliot Carter “Holiday Overture,” inspired by Allied liberation of ______
23.“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” composer, served as WWI drummer
24.Lt. Dan Band co-founder (with Gary Sinise), composer of “A Veterans’ Lament”
27.John Ireland war memorial staple, “Greater ____ hath no man”
28.Sammy Fain WWII hit that resembles Mahler 3rd adagio, “I’ll Be ______ You”
30.Russian composer who dedicated String Quartet No. 8 to victims of fascism and war
31.Location of battle that inspired Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8
32.Latin for “Grant Us Peace”
34.Identity of shipborne warrior remains in Lilian Elkington’s “Out of the Mist”
36.Composed “The Spirit of England” to honor memory of fallen WWI troops
37.“Saving Private Ryan” composer
40.Choral symphony by WWI vet Arthur Bliss, dedicated to fallen brother, “Morning ______”
42.Cellist who played in world premiere of Elliot Goldenthal Vietnam oratorio
43.Subtitle of Gian Francesco Malipiero Symphony No. 4, dedicated to WWII dead, “In ________”
46.Poet elegized at Gallipoli by Frederick Septimus Kelly
49.Louis Moreau Gottschalk Civil War “paraphrase” of patriotic songs

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