Answer the following about Sultan Qaboos of Oman’s fascination with classical music, which he promoted through a 120-member court orchestra in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. For 10 points each:
[10e] The Royal Opera House Muscat, built under Qaboos’s tenure, features the second-largest mobile one of these instruments in the world. These keyboard instruments typically use pipes to produce sounds.
ANSWER: pipe organs
[10h] Qaboos commissioned this composer to write Symphonic Impressions of Oman. This composer, who died in 2025 and arranged songs for the Three Tenors, wrote a set of Jazz Meets the Symphony albums and the Liliʻuokalani Symphony.
ANSWER: Lalo Schifrin
[10m] Shortly before Qaboos’s death, the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra performed at the Young Euro Classic in this city. Simon Rattle conducted an orchestra in this city from 2002 to 2018 following Claudio Abbado.
ANSWER: Berlin [accept Berlin Philharmonic]
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