Jacopo Pontormo Tournament of Manners
Chicago Open 2005 Fine Arts Singles,July 1, 2005
Questions by Chris Frankel
Playoff Packet, Round 11 (Finals Packet 2)
1. The dance that precedes the finale of its first act and follows the “Ballad of the Ear of Corn” and the “Variations on a Slavonic Theme” marks the first ever use of a czardas in a ballet. In the corresponding plot action, the Burgomeister leads a dance of couples in the village square while the male protagonist is spurned by his love, who thinks he is in love with the titular woman instead. Act II begins in the shop of a mysterious doctor, who also bears the name of a Tales of Hoffman character, and sees him and the male lead, Franz, being tricked by Swanilda into thinking that the title character has come to life. FTP, name this Leo Delibes ballet about Franz’s infatuation with a mechanical doll.
ANSWER: Coppelia
2. James Barry painted this character “instructing a savage people,” while Henry Ryland painted him as a youth surrounded by deer in a forest, and George Frederick Watts made a prolific series of renditions of him. Agnolo Bronzino painted a nude portrait of Cosimo I de Medici in the image of this character, who can be seen sitting on a rock on a grassy meadow across the lake from a smoking castle in a Nicholas Poussin landscape featuring him and his lover. Emile Levy showed his violent death, while both John Waterhouse and Gustave Moreau painted graphic scenes of nymphs discovering his severed head afterwards. FTP, identify this character from classical myth, namesake of a colorful French art movement led by Robert Delaunay, and the lyre-playing husband of Eurydice.
ANSWER: Orpheus
3. The first one is a furiant in C major in 3/8 time and the tempo direction Presto; the eight is also a furiant in Presto tempo, but in 3/4 time and the key of G minor. Two skocna, two sousedska, a polka, and a dumka fill out the first set, Op. 46, which was released in both orchestral and piano duet versions. The publisher, Fritz Simrock, paid the composer ten times more for the second series of eight, which was released eight years later in 1886. Inspired by Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, but instead incorporating the rhythms of Czech folk music, this is, FTP what set of sixteen dances composed by Antonin Dvorak?
ANSWER: Slavonic Dances
4. The largest of this work’s three pieces has a diameter of 9 3/8 inches. An anecdote tells how its construction was the response to a comment made by Pablo Picasso during a tea date, when the artist showed him a copper bracelet that had been lined with sealskin. A standout piece at the Museum of Modern Art’s 1937 Surrealist Exhibition, this work is often critically acclaimed for the contrast between the both opulent and grossly unappetizing appearance the artist added to a trio of common dining objects through her use of a fuzzy lining on the pieces of this arrangement. FTP, name this Meret Oppenheim creation consisting of a plate, spoon, and tea cup, all covered in hair.
ANSWER: Object or Luncheon in Fur or Breakfast in Fur or Fur-Lined Teacup or Le Dejeuner en Fourrure
5. The bearded man shown in profile on the right edge of this painting is preoccupied talking to the shadowy man above him, who leans down and starts to remove his hat. Towards the center, a trio of scruffy men huddles together and poses: the man on the left wears a hat askew, the one on the right crouches and is covered by his brown cloak and holding a glass, and the one in the center sheepishly sticks his head between them to get in the picture. Another man, wearing a sheathed dagger on his back, kneels down to be crowned with a garland by a distinctly pale Greek figure sitting near a pitcher and on top of a keg. Located in the Prado, this is, FTP, what Diego Velasquez scene of a wine god and a group of inebriated men?
ANSWER: The Triumph of Bacchus or Los Borrachos or The Drinkers
6. Its final incarnation saw the addition of Victor Bailey and Omar Hakim and the recording of Procession and another album named after the Porgy and Bess character, Sportin’ Life. However, their last release, This is This, saw former drummer Peter Erskine return for a final hurrah. 8:30, Night Passage, and the experimental Mr. Gone are recordings from this group’s most popular lineup, which included Erskine and electric bass standout Jaco Pastorious, and saw their biggest hit piece, 1977’s “Birdland.” FTP, Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter headed what jazz fusion supergroup with a meteorological name?
ANSWER: Weather Report
7. The angst-ridden third section of this work describes both the narrator’s feeling of a metaphorical knife wound in his heart and a temptation to physically stab himself. In its final movement, a funeral march plays as the singer finds rest under a linden tree, but not before a motif from the horns reminds him of his love object’s two blue eyes. This four movement work opens with a march marking his love’s wedding to another man, and was inspired by an early bout of unrequited love the composer had for Johanna Richter. The composer’s later Titan Symphony incorporated melodies from, FTP, what poetically accompanied song cycle for voice and orchestra in which Gustav Mahler describes himself as a lovelorn journeyman?
ANSWER: Songs of a Wayfarer or Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen
8. A residence in Newport, Rhode Island made for William Watts Sherman is cited as the first appearance of this style in the U.S. That house’s designer was the New York architect of the Buffalo State Hospital, Henry Hobson Richardson. The Stick style and another form named for Charles Eastlake were variants of the American school of this style, which was first popularized in England by Richard Norman Shaw. Wrap-around porches with turned spindles, wall masonry in contrasting textures, bay windows, sometimes using stained glass, and prominent, asymmetrical gables and towers were trademarks of houses designed in this decorative style, which replaced the Second Empire and Gothic Revival styles in the late 19th Century. FTP, identify this high Victorian architectural style actually named after a female Stuart monarch.
ANSWER: Queen Anne Style or Queen Anne Revival
9. A self portrait shows this painter in white, standing between a woman in red holding sheet music and a desperate looking woman in blue holding a palate, thus symbolizing hesitation between the arts of music and painting. While in the service of Joseph II, this artist rendered a scene from the Aeneid, Aeneas Mourning the Death of Pallas, and painted a portrait of Goethe a year later. However, a painting showing the mother of the Gracchus brothers is the most popular work by this companion of Joshua Reynolds, wife of Antonio Zucchi, and cofounder of the British Royal Academy. FTP, name this painter of Cornelia, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures, a prominent Swiss female neoclassicist.
ANSWER: Angelica Kauffmann
10. One man with this surname was replaced by Hans van Bulow as the dedicatee of the Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor after a dispute with Tchaikovsky, but is better known as the founder of the Moscow Conservatory. His brother composed six symphonies, including No. 4, “The Dramatic,” and No. 2, “The Ocean,” as well as the popular short piano piece, Melody in F. An unrelated 20th Century man to bear this name earned a reputation for championing Spanish-composed music in his piano performances, and after fleeing to the U.S. to escape the Nazis, finally returned to his native Poland in 1958. FTP, the pianists Nikolai, Anton, and Arthur all share what common surname?
ANSWER: Rubinstein
11. This film’s adult narrator describes “packing [his] belongings in the shawl [his] mother used to wear when she went to the market,” and is voiced by an uncredited, unseen Irving Pinchel. The protagonist, the youngest of seven children, recounts such memories as his abuse at the hands of the bully Mervyn Phillips and the schoolmaster Mr. Jonas. Later on, the deaths of his brother Ivor and father Gwilym in industrial accidents, romantic rejection from his sister-in-law Bronwen, and the drama behind the love life of his only sister Angharad prompt Huw Morgan’s decision to leave the titular location. Starring child actor Roddy McDowall, Walter Pidgeon and Maureen O’Hara, this is, FTP, what 1941 Best Picture-winning John Ford film adapted from a Richard Llewellyn novel about a Welsh coal-mining family?
ANSWER: How Green Was My Valley
12. An intricate formation of tiny golden stars placed under a miniature sun creates the outline of a shining crown that the curly haired youth on each side hold together in the center above the title character’s head. On the left, another youth in red leans down against the shoulders of two more kneeling youths; one wearing orange and looking at the other, who wears a gold trimmed black outfit and holds out an inkwell in his right hand. The central event of this life-size, round tondo painting shows the baby Jesus looking up at a red and blue wearing Mary, who dips her pen in the ink and prepares to write. FTP, identify this Sandro Botticelli Madonna nicknamed for the hymn book that appears in it.
ANSWER: Madonna of the Magnificat
13. In Act II, the title character is lured away from his hut by a haunting fiddler’s tune played by Jogu and is only brought out of his trance when his wife gives him a magic potion brewed by the dwarf Urok. The warnings of the title character’s mother-in-law, Hedwig, come to pass in Act III when he is seduced by Asa into rejoining his old tribe and becoming its new chief, thus leaving behind Ulana, his native wife, causing her to drown herself in a lake. However, the title character is himself pushed to his death in the Tatra Mountains by the former chief, Oros, ending his attempt to return to the life of a gypsy. FTP, name this only opera by Ignace Paderewski.
ANSWER: Manru
14. His mission to portray the universal beauty of human dignity, the subject of his essay, “My People,” is reflected in the diverse range of children he painted portraits of in his later years, ranging from the Asian Tam Gan, to the black Sylvester Smiling and Eva Green, to The Irish Boy in Blue Denim. The bulk of his other paintings consisted of landscapes of New England retreats like Mohegan Island, Maine, and of city scenes, like Snow in New York. Marge Ryerson compiled his notes posthumously in The Art Spirit, and his fame rests as a teacher, leading a group of students in a 1908 exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery after the traditionalism of the National Academy prompted it to reject many submissions by him and his numbered group of followers, including Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and William Glackens. FTP, name this painter who served as leader of The Eight, and later the Ashcan School.
ANSWER: Robert Henri or Robert Henry Cozad
15. A set of 41 of them, most of which had their manuscripts personally engraved by the composers, makes up the bulk of Christophe Graupner’s work for solo harpsichord. A set of six six-movement ones written primarily for oboe and basso continuo comprises Die Kleine Cammer-Music by Georg Telemann. An allemande and an “English” bourree respectively open and close the one in A minor for solo flute written by Johann Sebastian Bach. Another Bach one in D minor would later famously have its closing fifth movement Chaconne transcribed for piano by Ferruccio Busoni. FTP, identify this type of short musical suite, whose name translates from the Italian for “divided into sections” and which, when paired with three sonatas, denotes a set of six challenging Bach pieces for unaccompanied solo violin.
ANSWER: partitas
16. As it begins, the singer complains that he does not know what he is saying or doing, in this song that follows the section “Cammina Adagio E Li Sorprenderai” and precedes the intermezzo before Act II. Reminding himself that the people have paid money, the singer questions his manhood, then orders himself to overcome his delirium, prepare his face, and laugh. Most memorable in this arioso are the audible emotions of the tenor singer, who goes from an outburst of mad cackling as he reminds himself that he is just a lowly performer, to a fit of anguished sobbing at the end over the pain that poisons his heart: the infidelity of his Columbina, his wife Nedda. FTP, Canio piteously weeps before going on stage in what aria from Pagliacci, whose title comes from his self-imposed order to *put on his costume?
ANSWER: “Recitar… Vesti La Giubba” (accept “Put on the Costume” or close translations before the *)
17. An eponymous poem by Henry Tuckerman for the New York Daily Tribune was one of many contemporary literary reactions to the exhibiting of this sculpture, which was described as having “passionless perfection” in a sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. According to an explanatory pamphlet provided by Miner Kellogg, the presence of a cross and locket identifies the title character as a Christian. The subject of a cross-country American tour from 1847-1848, the statue simultaneously casts an aura of sexuality and dignity, as its nude subject, with her hair tied in a bun, stands calmly and gazes to the side, holding her clothes in one of her chained hands as she waits to be sold by her Turkish abductors at an auction. FTP, identify this Hiram Powers sculpture of a Hellenistic captive.
ANSWER: Greek Slave
18. In its middle section, the strings and flute part take turns playing three verses of the ballad “Lovely Joan.” The flute then revisits its opening role, beginning a soft introductory melody on a high F to the accompaniment of ascending harp arpeggios, after which hushed strings return to playing the melody of the titular traditional song. The song quoted was mentioned by Shakespeare in The Merry Wives of Windsor, hence the composer’s decision originally to write this piece for his 1928 opera, Sir John in Love. FTP, name this free-form Ralph Vaughan Williams piece based on an English Renaissance ballad about a lady with a colorful dress.
ANSWER: Fantasia on Greensleeves
19. After graduation, Rafael Moneo worked for two years under this man, the subject of a “Secret Life” by Philip Drew. Over two decades apart from each other, he constructed a pair of personal residences: the seaside Can Lis and the pine forest situated Can Feliz, both located in Mallorca. Another personal house in Hellebaek, a showroom for the Paustian Furniture Company, the Skagen Nature Center, and the Kingo housing project at Elsinore were his most successful projects in his homeland, but his international fame rests on a concave-roofed parliament building for the Kuwait National Assembly and an arts center built on a harbor and featuring a roof of overlapping curved shells that mimic sails. FTP, name this Danish architect of the Sydney Opera House.
ANSWER: Jorn Utzon
20. At a square green table in the lower right foreground, two young men, a bearded pipe-smoking man in a black top hat and another holding a pen and wearing a straw hat, watch the action in the rest of this painting, while the other man at the table faces away from the viewer to converse with a seated woman in a blue and yellow striped dress and a standing one in black. They are the sisters Estelle and Jeanne, two regular models for the artist. The crowded background scene is highlighted by trees, street lamps, and hanging chandeliers, and another friend of the artist, the painter Pedro Cardenas, can be seen on the left dancing with a woman as one of the many working class couples gathered in this plein-air setting. FTP, identify this painting of a weekend afternoon ball at the titular Paris park, a work by Pierre Auguste Renoir.
ANSWER: Le Moulin de la Galette
21. A resounding A major chord from the piano accompaniment opens its sforzando-filled Presto finale, written in the form of a tarantella. Its first movement begins with a short Adagio Sostenuto passage that switches to A minor and Presto for its section, while the second movement, primarily written in F major, consists of an Andante passage and four variations on it that showcase various virtuoso techniques for the solo violin. Originally written for George Bridgetower, this piece also shares its title with the nickname of Leos Janacek’s first string quartet, which, in turn, was based on a Russian story with the same title. FTP, identify this sonata, which Ludwig von Beethoven eventually dedicated to a prominent European violinist.
ANSWER: Kreutzer Sonata or Beethoven’s Violin Sonata #9