Steve Schwartz wrote:

>Karl Miller poses the musical question:
>
>>And for ten points and a chance at the new Honda....
>>
>>Name the composer who has a passage of an orchestra tuning up in one of
>>his works for orchestra?
>
>Don't know what *you're* thinking of, but Edgard Varese has a piece
>called "Tuning Up," inspired by that very activity.

And Stockhausen's Momente begins with the chorus bursting into applause.

Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>