One of the repeating themes in this piece is a high voice playing a relaxed short-short-short-long-short A-flat, A-flat, A-flat, C, A-flat. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this single-movement woodwind quintet, Samuel Barber’s only work in that genre. Barber used material from an earlier work based on “Arabian themes” that he wrote for “The Standard Oil Hour” on NBC.
ANSWER: Summer Music (The earlier work is “Horizon.”)
[10e] Clara first sings the jazzy aria “Summertime” as a lullaby in this George Gershwin opera.
ANSWER: Porgy and Bess
[10m] Mikhail Glinka wrote an overture titled for a “Summer Night” in this city. A seven-movement string quintet depicting this city opens with a movement whose sections are titled “Ave Maria” and “Minuet of the Blind.”
ANSWER: Madrid, Spain (The quintet is “Night Music of the Streets of Madrid” by Luigi Boccherini.)
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