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?
The answer I was looking for...
Rodion Shchedrin: Symphony No.2
It is a group of Preludes for Orchestra. One of the preludes features
the orchestra tuning.
Ok, so it was pretty obscure.
And speaking of Preludes for orchestra, (I will give a hint with this
one), what French composer, noted for writing one of the most familiar
of all themes used for a television program, also wrote a set of Preludes
for Orchestra? (no orchestra tuning in this piece...just some brilliant
music...a work premiered by Bernstein...a piece that sounds like bits
and pieces of Sacre)
Karl