RSVP TRAVEL QUIZ
Here's a quiz that combines our passions for music and travel. Can you match the ten tourist destinations with the appropriate composers?
1. Grand Canyon
2. Alps
3. Pyramids
4. Fingal's Cave
5. Trevi Fountain
6. Florida
7. Generalife Gardens
8. Cavendish
9. Eiffel Tower
10. Tower of London 		    A. Mendelssohn
B. Respighi
C. Gilbert and Sullivan
D. Norman Campbell
E. Falla
F. Delius
G. Grofe
H. Les Six
I. Richard Strauss
J. Verdi

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ANSWERS

1   G. A visit to the Grand Canyon in 1919 inspired Ferde Grofe to write his Grand Canyon Suite.

2   I. Richard Strauss composed his tone poem An Alpine Symphony in 1915.

3   J. The pyramids were the backdrop for the opening scene of Verdi's Aida.

4   A. Mendelssohn wrote the Hebrides Overture (subtitled Fingal's Cave) after visiting the cave in 1829.

5   B. The Trevi is the third of Respighi's Four Fountains of Rome.

6   F. Delius lived in Florida for a brief time in the 1880's. That's when he wrote his Florida Suite.

7   E. The first movement of Manuel de Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain is an impression of the Generalife Gardens near the Alhambra.

8   D. Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, was home to "Anne of Green Gables." Norman Campbell helped turn it into Canada's most popular musical.

9   H. The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower is the title of a ballet with the music by the group of French composers known as "Les Six."

10   C. The Tower of London is the setting for Gilbert and Sullivan's most dramatic opera - The Yeomen of the Guard. Leon and Jacqui had the great fun of acting as the pianist/producer duo for a production of Yeomen with the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Nova Scotia.