The quiz which was set for members at the AGM 8 October 2006.

1) What was the name of C V Stanford’s first opera

2) What was VW’s first composition called?

3) Who was the Headmaster at Charterhouse when VW was a pupil?

4) Who was VW’s theory teacher in his first two years at the RCM?

5) “At first I was shocked by the frank sentimentalism and sensationalism of the music”. What was the work to which VW referred?

6) Where did VW, G E Moore, Ralph Wedgwood and others meet for reading parties in the 1890s?

7) What was the folk song VW discovered in English County Songs in 1893?

8) What was the name of the shepherd who had sang Bushes and Briars to VW in December 1903 in Ingrave, Essex?

9) To which church was VW appointed organist in 1895?

10) When RVW and Holst spoke about ‘wurming’ to what were they referring?

11) In what year did Ralph and Adeline move into 10 Barton Street, London?

12) Dan Godfrey conducted two works in 1902 – one by VW and one by Holst. What were these works?

13) What were the first settings of Whitman by VW to be performed (in 1904)?

14) What is the first line of the hymn Monk’s Gate?

15) Which VW work set the following lines:?

And it grew both day and night
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.

16) What folk song is referred to in the orchestra before the baritone sings his ‘rude brief recitative of ships sailing the sea’ in A Sea Symphony?

17) What was the connection between VW’s father and the poet George Herbert?

18) On what date did VW enlist in London medical Corps?

19) Which work of Holst, first performed in March 1920, was dedicated to VW?

20) What two short stories influenced the libretto for The Poisoned Kiss?

21) Which character repeatedly sings ‘Aye, forsooth’ in Sir John in Love?

22) Who is the only surviving son of Maurya who is determined to take the horses across to Galway Bay in Riders to the Sea?

23) For whom was the Second String Quartet written?

24) Who was Satan in the staged first performance of Job by Camargo Society in London in 1931?

25) To whom was VW’s Fourth Symphony dedicated?

26) What was the name of the sixth Portrait that was abandoned in what became the Five Tudor Portraits?

27) Who was the contralto soloist in the first performance of the Four Last Songs on 3 August 1960?

28) Name the four poets set to music by VW in the Four Hymns of 1914.

29) List the singers in the first performance of Serenade to Music in October 1978.

Maximum possible points - 50
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