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Cage
Match
CAGE MATCH!
Remember the winter of 2006? The crisp air, the sun, the golf?
Compare that to what spread across most of Canada this week. The decreased visibility, the cancelled flights, the snow.
Which is better... a White Christmas or a Green Christmas? You decide...
Vote now!
Who won last week? Check out the Cage Match Stats Sheet.
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Irving Berlin's White CHristmas vs. Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves
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Cage Match Stats Sheet
Battle of the Christmas Blockbusters: Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker overture (Charles Dutoit Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal)vs. Handel's Hallelujah chorus (Royal Philharmonic Chorus Orchestra)
winner: Handel!
Christmas Regift Cage Match: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Mitch Miller) vs. The Little Drummer Boy (Charlotte Church)
winner: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus! (eliminated from the playlist)
Iron Curtain Cage Match: Russian National Orchestra (after) vs. Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (before)
winner: Leningrad!
CFL vs NFL: Kenneth Alford's Colonel Bogey March (CFL) vs. John Phillip Sousa's Washington Post March (NFL)
winner: CFL!
Intercity Cage: Sid Robinovitch's Burlesque Suite (Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra) vs. Battle of Jericho (University of Regina Chamber Singers)
winner: Regina!
The Perfect Storm: William Tell Overature (Gioacchino Rossini) vs. Symphony No 6 4th Mvmt (Ludwig Van Beethoven)
winner: Beethoven!
Champ Chump Cage Match: Don Jose (from George Bizet's Carmen) vs. Hamlet (Ambrose Thomas - O Vin Dissipe La Tristesse)
winner(Loser??): Don Jose!
Intercity Cage Match: Calgary (Leonard Bernstein's Candide Overture) vs. Edmonton Dmitry Kabalevsky's Colas Breugnon Overture (Dmitry Kabalevsky's Colas Breugnon Overture)
winner: Calgary!
Food Fight: De LaLande's Sinfonies Pour Les Soupers Du Roy vs. Vivaldi's Concerto in G "Alla Rustica"
winner: Vivaldi!
Intercity Cage Match: Montreal vs. Toronto
winner: Montreal!
Spot the Gould!: Five versions of The Well-Tempered Clavier
winner: #4!
Scariest Pirate: Korngold's Captain Blood vs. Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirate King
winner: Captain Blood!
Back to Work: Happy (Sibelius - Karelia Suite) vs. Sad (Traditional - Song of the Volga Boatmen)
winner: Volga Boatmen!
Challenger's Cup - Final: Bach (represented by Orchestral Suite No.3) vs. Mozart (represented by Symphony No.41 - Finale)
winner: Mozart!
Composers Cup - Final: Dmitri Shostakovich (Piano Concerto No.1 - Finale) vs. JS Bach (Sinfonia from Cantata 174)
winner: Bach!
Composers Cup - S Division: Dmitri Shostakovich (Piano Concerto No.1 - Finale) vs. Igor Stravinsky (Infernal Dance from the Firebird)
winner: Shostakovich!
Composers Cup - B Division: JS Bach (Toccata in D Minor) vs. Beethoven (Symphony No.5 1st movement)
winner: Bach!
Battle Royale: Queen Victoria (Elgar's Coronation March) vs. Queen Elizabeth (Walton's Orb and Sceptre)
winner: Queen Elizabeth!
Church vs State: Church (Mendelssohn's War March of the Priests) vs. State (Sousa's The Diplomat March)
winner: Church!
Name the Baby cage match: Molly (represented by Percy Grainger's "Molly on the Shore") vs. Juliet (represented by Prokofiev's "The Young Juliet")
winner: Juliet! (no pressure, Michelle)
NHL cage match: St. Louis Blues forward Radek "Dvorak" (Antonin's Scherzo - Furiant: Molto vivace) vs. Ottawa Senators defenceman Christof "Schubert" (Franz's Trout Quintet)
winner: Schubert!
Ides of March: Caesar vs. himself! Handel's "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" vs. Rozsa's "Julius Caesar, film music"
winner: Rozsa's Caesar!
March Break: Florida ("La Calinda") vs. Cuba ("Chan Chan")
winner: Cuba!
Blindfold Grande Valse Brillante: Contestant "A" (Maria Joao Pires) vs. Contestant "B" (Evgeny Kissin)
winner: Contestant "B" (Evgeny Kissin)
Anguished Cries: "Stella!" from 'A Streetcar Named Desire' vs. "Khan!" from 'The Wrath of Khan'
winner: Stella!
Flower vs. Brick: A Flower - Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" vs. A Brick - Prokofiev's "Chuzhbog and the Dance of the Evil Spirits"
winner: Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet"
Good vs. Evil: Superman theme vs. Imperial March (Darth Vader theme from Star Wars series)
winner: Evil!
Groundhog Day: Vivaldi's 'Winter' vs. Grieg's 'Morning'
winner: Winter
BattleAx:Kathleen Battle vs. Emanuel Ax
winner: Kathleen Battle
PollacaPalooza:Dvorak's Polonaise from 'Rusalka' vs. Tchaikovsky's Polonaise from 'Eugene Onegin'
winner: Tchaikovsky's Polonaise from 'Eugene Onegin'
Climate Change:Sibelius' icy 'Finlandia' vs. Azevedi's steamy 'Brasileirnho'
winner: Finlandia
Manger Match!: The St John's Kilmarnoch Grade 6 Choir performs "Away In A Manger" Version 1 vs. Version 2
winner: Version 2
Intra-Mozart Showdown: young Mozart (Symphony No.25) vs. older Mozart (Symphony No.40)
winner: young Mozart (Symphony No.25)
Blindfold Cold War: Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony - USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra vs. New York Philharmonic
winner: New York Philharmonic
Chicken Battle:Respighi's "La Gallina" vs. Poulenc's "Deux Coqs"
winner: La Gallina
Hell Hath No Fury:Puccini's Turandot vs. Mozart's Queen of the Night
winner: Queen of the Night
Monster Mash!:Mussorgsky's "Baba Yaga" vs. Prokofiev's "Chuzhbog"
winner: Baba Yaga
Which should be banned from our playlist?:Pachelbel's "Canon" vs. Ravel's "Bolero"
winner: (elimintated from our playlist 'til June) Bolero
Princess Battle:Prokofiev's "Cinderella" vs. Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty"
winner: Sleeping Beauty
Shouting & Humming:Gounod's "Soldiers' Chorus" vs. Puccini's "Humming Chorus"
winner: Humming
Feasts: Handel's "Alexander's Feast" vs. Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast"
winner: Handel
Turkish Delight: Mozart's "Rondo alla Turca" - Glenn Gould vs. Arcadi Volodos
winner: Glenn Gould
Apples vs. Oranges:Stravinski's "The Princesses at Play with Golden Apples" vs. Prokofiev's "Love of Three Oranges"
winner:Prokofiev
Fanfare battle:Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" vs. Richard Strauss' opening fanfare from
"Also Sprach Zarathustra"
winner:Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man"
Beautiful Boy or Girl: Handel's "Ombra mai fu" - counter-tenor Daniel Taylor vs. soprano Renee Fleming
winner: Daniel Taylor
The Best Lover: Puccini's "O Soava Fanciulla" vs. Bizet's "La Fleur que tu m'avais jetee"
winner: Puccini
Grand Entrances: Handel's "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" vs. Fucik's "Entrance of the Gladiators"
winner: The Queen of Sheba
High-tech/Low-tech: Rachmaninov's "Vocalise" - Clara Rockmore on the Theremin vs. David Hetherington on the Saw
winner: David and his musical saw!
Fandango!: Boccherini's 4th Guitar Quintet "Fandago" - Europa Galante vs. Trio de Guitares de Montréal
winner: Europa Galante
Bumblebees: Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" - Wynton Marsalis vs. Arcadi Volodos
winner: Wynton Marsalis
Spirit Dance off: Gluck's "Dance of the Blessed Spirits" vs.Prokofiev's "Chuzbog and
the Dance of the Evil Spirits"
winner: Prokofiev
Opera Villains: Iago (from Verdi's "Otello") vs. Scarpia (from Puccini's "Tosca")
winner: Scarpia
Pachelbel Canon: Orchestre de Chambre Jean-Francois Paillard vs. Il Giardino Armonico.
winner: Orchestre de Chambre Jean-Francois Paillard
Heaven vs. Hell: Faure's "In Paradisum" vs. Verdi's "Dies Irae"
winner: Heaven
Spring 2: Stravinski's "Rite of Spring" vs. Ravel's "Daphnis and Chloe"
winner: Rite of Spring
Spring: Glazunov's "Spring" vs. Strauss' "Voices of Spring"
winner: Voices of Spring
Work vs. Play: 'Anvil Chorus' from "Il Trovatore" vs.'Libiamo' from "La Traviata"
winner: PLAY!
Girls vs. Boys: female duet from "Lakme" vs. male duet from "The Pearl Fishers"
winner: Lakme
Movie Main Titles: Steiner's "Gone With the Wind" vs. Korngold's "Robin Hood"
winner: Gone With the Wind
Winter: Vivaldi's 'Winter' - Herbert von Karajan vs. Nigel Kennedy
winner: Herbert von Karajan
Love Duets: Tristan & Isolde vs. Mimi & Rodolfo
winner:Mimi & Rodolfo
Bird Attacks!: Prometheus vs. King Dodon
winner: King Dodon
Biblical Bad Girls: Salome vs. Delilah
winner: Delilah
King Kong Cage Match: 1933 soundtrack vs. 2005 soundtrack
winner:1933
Oh Holy Cage Match: Jeesye Norman vs. Luciano Pavarotti
winner: Luciano Pavarotti
Christmas Blockbusters: "It's a Wonderful Life" vs. "Miracle on 34th Street"
winner: "It's a Wonderful Life"
Sleigh Rides: Prokofiev's "Troika" vs. Anderson's "Sleigh Ride"
winner: Troika
Big vs.Small: the tiny ocarina vs. the mighty alphorn
winner: Small
Flute Battle: Jean Pierre Rampal on the transverse flute vs. Michala Petri on the flute a bec (recorder)
winner: Michala Petri
Classical Crossovers: Placido Domingo & John Denver vs. Luciano Pavarotti & Frank Sinatra
winner: Placido Domingo & John Denver
Sad Clowns: Leoncavallo's Vesti la Giuba from "I Pagliacci" - tenors Mario del Monaco vs. Jose Cura
winner: Jose Cura
Battle of the Bach Brothers: older brother Wilhelm Friedemann Bach vs. younger brother Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
winner: younger brother, CPE!
Blindfold Chopin: Chopin's "Prelude No.1" - Vladimir Ashkenazy vs. Martha Argerich.
winner: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Man vs. Machine: Bach's 'Sinfonia to Cantata 29' - His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornets vs. Wendy Carlos and a synthesizer
winner: Man wins again! (for now...)
Pearl Fishers tag-team: Bizet's 'Au fond du temple saint' - Michael Schade & Russell Braun vs. Jussi Bjorling & Robert Merrill
winner: Jussi Bjorling & Robert Merrill
Trombones: Saint-Saens' 'Le Cygne' - Alain Trudel vs. Christian Lindberg
winner: Lindberg
Mystery Violinists: Bach's 'Partita No.1' - James Ehnes vs. Jean-Jacques Kantorow
winner: Kantorow
Pop Tenors: Verdi 'La donna e mobile' Mario Lanza vs. Andrea Bocelli
winner: Lanza
French Horns: Mozart's 'Horn Concerto No.4' - Ab Koster vs. Jamie Somerville
winner: Somerville
Cellos: Bach's 'Prelude, Cello Suite No.1' - Pablo Casals vs. Yo-yo Ma
winner: Casals
Kings: Henry VIII's 'En vrai amour' vs. Frederick the Great's 'Sonata in E minor'
winner: Frederick the Great
Quien es mas macho?: Conducting Lyodov's 'Baba-yaga, Symphonic Picture' -
Mikahail Pletnev vs. Valery Gergiev
winner: Gergiev
Chopin's Minute Waltz: Dinu Lupatti vs. Sergei Rachmaninov
winner: Rachmaninov
Spring: Respighi's 'La Primavera' vs.Vivaldi's 'Spring'
winner: Respighi
Young & Old Glenn: Bach's 'Goldberg Variation 1' played by Glenn Gould in 1955 vs. Glenn again in 1981
winner: 1981
Hallelujah Chorus: Monteverdi Choir vs. Royal Philharmonic Chorus
winner: Monteverdi Choir
Divos: Puccini's 'Nessun Dorma' - Luciano Pavarotti vs. Roberto Alagna
winner: Pavarotti
Spain by the French: Bizet's 'Carmen' vs. Chabrier's 'Espagna'
winner: Carmen
Marches: Sousa's 'Stars and Stripes' vs. Alford's 'Colonel Bogey'
winner: Colonel Bogey
Battle of Holst's Planets: Mars vs. Jupiter
winner: Jupiter
Chaos: Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' vs. Rebel's 'The Elements'
winner: Stravinsky
Divas: Puccini's 'O mio babbino caro' - Renée Fleming vs. Maria Callas
winner: Renée Fleming
Russian Pianists: Vladamir Horowitz playing Rachmaninov's 'Prelude in G' vs. Sviatoslav Richter playing Mussorgsky's 'Baba Yaga, Pictures at an Exhibition'
winner: Horowitz
Dancing Bears: Katchaturian's 'Masquerade Waltz' vs. Prokofiev's 'Happiness'
winner: Katchaturian
Young & Old Beethoven: 'Piano Trio in E flat, 3rd mov't' vs. 'Choral, Symphony No.9'
winner: Old Beethoven
Hungarian Dance: Brahms' 'Hungarian Dance No.6' vs. Rachmaninov's 'Hungarian Dance No.2'
winner: Brahms
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