#13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $2000: An early 20th c. female modern dance pioneer & a 19th century male master of cabinetmaking & neo-classical furniture Isadora Duncan Phyfe |
#8597, aired 2022-03-15 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: Composer Aram Khachaturian's most familiar piece is this sharp "Dance" featured in his "Gayane" ballet the "Sabre Dance" |
#8202, aired 2020-04-14 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: "Asturias" by Isaac Albeniz is a piece in the style of this Spanish Gypsy dance music flamenco |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | CLASSICAL DANCE $400: Not "sausage" but this dance follows "Vienna Blood" in a Johann Strauss Jr. title waltz |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | CLASSICAL DANCE $800: Between 1915 & 1917, after traveling among rural people, Bela Bartok wrote 6 "Romanian" these "Dances" Folk |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | CLASSICAL DANCE $1200: Bach's keyboard suites include music for this happy dance, 5 letters long (not 3) & starting with "G" (not "J") a gigue |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | CLASSICAL DANCE $2000: The gopak or hopak from Tchaikovsky's "Mazeppa" is a dance of these people who really know their steppes the Cossacks |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | CLASSICAL DANCE $3,000 (Daily Double): Jean-Baptiste Lully pioneered music for this dance whose name, from the Latin for "small", comes from its small, dainty steps a minuet |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSICAL DANCE MIX $400: "Waltz of the Flowers" is from this holiday ballet by Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSICAL DANCE MIX $800: His Opus 72 is "Norwegian Peasant Dances" Grieg |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSICAL DANCE MIX $1200: "Chatterbox" by Josef Strauss is this type of lively dance later to be featured by Lawrence Welk polka |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSICAL DANCE MIX $1600: In the 1840s Henryk Szopowicz wrote a collection of mazurkas "a la" this composer Chopin |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSICAL DANCE MIX $2000: One movement of Mendelssohn's "Italian" symphony evokes this dance with an Italian name meaning an arachnid tarantella |
#7939, aired 2019-02-28 | ARTS & CULTURE $1200: In 1957's "Square Dance", this New York City Ballet founder combined classical technique with square dance calls George Balanchine |
#7905, aired 2019-01-11 | 5 "B"s OF CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: This Hungarian's 1923 "Dance Suite" celebrated the 50th anniversary of the merger of Buda, Pest & Obuda Béla Bartók |
#7695, aired 2018-02-09 | YOU STAY CLASSICAL, MUSIC $2000: "Anitra's Dance" is from a suite by Grieg written for this Ibsen play Peer Gynt |
#7506, aired 2017-04-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: This rousing piece by Aram Khachaturian that has a weapon in its name is from his ballet "Gayane" the "Sabre Dance" |
#7107, aired 2015-07-07 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1600: The first Czech composer to gain world renown, around 1878 he composed the "Slavonic Dance" heard here Antonín Dvořák |
#7088, aired 2015-06-10 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $800: Classical dance & a wooden hammer ballet & mallet |
#6771, aired 2014-02-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: Aram Khachaturian composed this "Dance" for his ballet "Gayane" "The Sabre Dance" |
#6292, aired 2012-01-17 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: The piece heard here from this Handel work is called "Alla Hornpipe"--everybody dance! Water Music |
#6292, aired 2012-01-17 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: This composer of Armenian heritage is best known for the "Sabre Dance" from his ballet "Gayane" (Aram) Khachaturian |
#4604, aired 2004-09-16 | MODERN DANCE $800: Modern dance continues to interpret this classical composer, as in Paul Taylor's 1988 "Brandenburgs" (Johann Sebastian) Bach |
#3727, aired 2000-11-14 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: This "Rite of Spring" composer accepted such commissions as a dance for circus elephants Igor Stravinsky |
#3718, aired 2000-11-01 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1000: In 1933 this "Sabre Dance" composer married fellow Russian composer Nina Makarova Aram Khatchatourian |
#3703, aired 2000-10-11 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2,000 (Daily Double): His "Songs To Remember" include about 40 mazurkas written in a 3/4 dance rhythm Frederic Chopin |
#3320, aired 1999-01-29 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: You can dance with this composer Tchaikovsky |
#3320, aired 1999-01-29 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: "Dance" heard here "Sabre Dance" |
#3107, aired 1998-02-17 | FROM CLASSICAL TUNES $1,000 (Daily Double): 1963 novelty song that used the "Dance Of The Hours" from "La Gioconda", heard here: "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter From Camp)" |
#2890, aired 1997-03-07 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: Death plays a merry dance on the violin in this Frenchman's "Danse macabre" Camille Saint-Saens |
#2513, aired 1995-07-05 | DANCE $1000: Some movements in the baile grande, a type of this Andalusian dance, resemble classical Hindu dance flamenco |
#2396, aired 1995-01-23 | PATERNAL NICKNAMES $300: Marius Petipa has been called the father of the classical type of this dance form ballet |
#2221, aired 1994-04-11 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: Selections in his "Peer Gynt" suite include "Anitra's Dance", "Morning" & "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (Edvard) Grieg |
#983, aired 1988-12-07 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $500: Saint-Saens work based on a Henri Cazalis poem that begins "Zig et zig et zig, la mort en cadence" "Danse macabre" (the dance of death) |
#877, aired 1988-05-31 | DANCE $800: Regarded as father of Russian classical ballet, Marius Petipa was actually from this w. European country France |
#763, aired 1987-12-23 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Said to have originated in the 18th c., this Spanish dance was made a 20th c. "classic" by Ravel bolero |
#485, aired 1986-10-17 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: Famous in Bizet's "Carmen", the habanera is actually a Cuban dance, named for this city Havana |