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OK, classical smarty-pants...

Posted at 7:54 AM on September 19, 2006 by John Zech
Filed under: The blog

Here's a test of classical music knowledge that was used at a gala fundraising event in London on Sunday. (Personally, I don't think this is a very fair quiz-mainly because I don't feel very sure about my answers). A lot of the stuff seems to depend on whether you recognize certain pictures, not whether you know anything about music.

Let's see how you do on the National Youth Orchestra fundraising quiz.

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