Answers to the Slippedisc 2023 year-end quiz

Answers to the Slippedisc 2023 year-end quiz

Daily Comfort Zone

norman lebrecht

December 27, 2023

Nobody seems to have got them all.

Here‘s the quiz.

And here are the answers:

1. https://slippedisc.com/2023/08/bbc-finalises-maida-vale-sale/
Tim Bevan with Eric Fellner, and Hans Zimmer with Steven Kofsky

2. https://slippedisc.com/2023/09/probably-the-worst-mahler-of-2023/
London’s Philharmonia Orchestra has chosen Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony as its second selfie. Big mistake. 

3. https://slippedisc.com/2023/01/tar-is-not-a-bad-movie/
Kaplan in the movie is made up – spectacles, hair – to resemble the late Gilbert E Kaplan, a financial publisher who made a second career conducting Mahler’s second symphony. It is a gratuitously nasty caricature

4. https://slippedisc.com/?s=opera+magazine
Opera Now and Opera News

5. https://slippedisc.com/2023/11/oldest-pianist-dies-at-109/
Colette Maze at 109

6. https://slippedisc.com/2023/02/germans-cannot-fire-director-in-dog-shit-attack/
The Hanover State Opera has taken disciplinary measures against its ballet director Marco Goecke, who smeared dog poo on the face of a journalist from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

7. https://slippedisc.com/2023/12/the-naked-conductor-bares-all-again/
Lorenzo Viotti

8. https://slippedisc.com/2022/10/angelina-jolie-to-play-maria-callas-on-film/
Angelina Jolie

9. https://slippedisc.com/2023/03/anne-sophie-mutter-i-only-became-human-when-i-was-a-widow/
Anne-Sophie Mutter

10. https://slippedisc.com/2023/08/last-chance-netrebko-files-suit-against-the-met/
Netrebko sues

11.https://slippedisc.com/2022/11/handel-and-hendrix-are-getting-a-3-million-facelift/
George II  (in 1727) and Charles III (in 2023)

12 https://slippedisc.com/2023/08/exclusive-sir-john-eliot-gardiner-quits-trojans-after-singer-incident/
William Thomas

Comments

  • IP says:

    Oh, I thought you meant the amateur conductor Marin Alsop, who made a big fuss about the Tar movie. The powerful negative reaction to my comment makes me think that many must have thought the same.

    • Anon says:

      “Amateur” conductor? Marin Alsop is a working conductor, holding at least one professional conducting position right now. She’s a professional conductor regardless of how you personally rate her skills. She didn’t make a bigger fuss than anyone else who was interviewed about the film.

      I was a little confused, myself, as to why Bernstein’s children decided to publicly insert themselves into the Tar conversation with their op-eds to various NY publications. They were much less in a position to be commenting about Tar & their “fuss” was bigger & weirder than Alsop’s.

  • Larry L Lash says:

    As for Mahler, in 2023 I heard:

    Sinfonie Nr. 2 – Orchestra de Paris; Mäkelä
    Sinfonie Nr. 3 – Utopia; Currentzis
    Sinfonie Nr. 5 – RSO-Wien; Alsop (actually in late November 2022)
    Sinfonie Nr. 6 – Česká filharmonie; Bychkov
    Sinfonie Nr. 6 – Wiener Jeunesse Orchester; Stockhammer
    Sinfonie Nr. 6 – Tonkünstler Orcheshester; Sado
    Sinfonie Nr. 7 – Tonkünstler Orcheshester; Sado
    Sinfonie Nr. 7 – Cleveland Orchestra; Möst

    Best – Nr. 7 – Tonkünstler Orcheshester; Sado
    Absolute Worst – Nr. 2 – Orchestre de Paris; Mäkelä
    Runners-up for worst: Nr. 6 – Česká filharmonie; Bychkov / Nr. 5 – RSO-Wien; Alsop

    In the coming months I am already booked for:

    Sinfonie Nr. 1 – Concertgebouw; Gatti
    Sinfonie Nr. 2 – Wiener Symphoniker; Altinoglu
    Sinfonie Nr. 4 – RSO-Wien; Alsop
    Sinfonie Nr. 9 – Tonkünstler Orcheshester; Sado

    I’ve had a bunch of Lieder Cycles tossed in (Gerhaher is doing the „Rückert-Lieder“ as the opening act for an upcomng performance of „Also sprach Zarathustra“; Hampson did some Lieder before the Cleveland concert) so I am only missing Nr. 8 (for obvious reasons) and „Das Lied von der Erde“ (for which I had a ticket but stayed home to comfort a seriously ill cat).

    While there’s no Mahler on the programme, I will hear the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in January and get my first live earful from Yuja Wang. Ballet tonight (van Manen, Forsythe, and Balanchine danced to Frank Martin, Leslie Stuck/Thom Willems, and Brahms/Schönberg).

  • Guest Conductor says:

    13. Tchaikovsky’s 5th symphony

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