This piece’s finale imitates a style that its composer described as “laughter through tears” and “close to my ideas of what music should be.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this E minor chamber piece written in memory of Ivan Sollertinsky. Its finale, often described as a “dance of death,” is the [emphasize] origin of the klezmer-inspired melody “long F-sharp, G, down to C - C - long C.”
ANSWER: Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor [or Dmitri Shostakovich’s second piano trio; prompt on partial answers]
[10e] Shostakovich quoted the “Jewish theme” from his second piano trio in a piece for this ensemble dedicated “to the victims of fascism and the war.” One of these ensembles named for Kronos premiered Steve Reich’s Different Trains.
ANSWER: string quartet [prompt on quartet or Kronos quartet]
[10m] David Krakauer and the Kronos Quartet premiered this composer’s klezmer-inspired clarinet quintet The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. This Argentine composer wrote the St. Mark Passion and the opera Ainadamar.
ANSWER: Osvaldo Golijov [or Osvaldo Noé Golijov]
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