The Starkeeper lets Billy Bigelow watch his daughter Louise grow up in one of these sequences during the number “Billy makes a Journey.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these sequences common in Golden Age musicals. In another musical, one of these sequences convinces Laurey that she should marry Curly over the irritable farmhand Jud.
ANSWER: dream ballet [prompt on dreams or ballets or dance break]
[10h] Name this orchestral piece whose slow final section is sometimes performed with a choir after being reworked by its composer into a hymn.
ANSWER: Finlandia [or Jean Sibelius’s Op. 26]
[10e] Though it didn’t invent them, the popularization of dream ballets in Broadway is credited to this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, which describes the wind “sweepin’ down the plain” in the title state.
ANSWER: Oklahoma!
[10e] In another Sibelius tone poem, the English horn represents one of these animals “of Tuonela.” In a movement of Saint-Saens’s Carnival of the Animals, a lyrical cello solo and piano arpeggios depict one of these animals gliding over water.
ANSWER: swans [accept Le cygne]
[10m] This dancer choreographed the dream ballets for Oklahoma! and Carousel. This choreographer worked with Aaron Copland on the ballet Rodeo.
ANSWER: Agnes de Mille
[10m] An early Sibelius tone poem is titled for a “Song” of this time period. A “mood picture” by Fredrick Delius is titled On Hearing the First Cuckoo in [this time period].
ANSWER: spring
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