Bruckner makes it to JEOPARDY!

On the March 15th edition of the television game show, JEOPARDY. The name of Anton Bruckner made its way into a question. The category was 'Postmasters', and the question ran 'These orchestral works by Anton Bruckner, like the 90-minute #8, are classics of Post Romanticism.'

My thanks to Wayne Reisig for this report.

Wayne felt sure that this must be Anton's first run-in with JEOPARDY, however, a Google search came up with this unusual tidbit from a 1996 New York Times article regarding the music of German Avante Guardist, Heinz-Heinrich Dunkel:

In stark contrast, 'Gefährdung!' seems to reflect Mr. Dunkel's recent residency at the University of California at Santa Rosa. Samplings of the voice of Alex Trebek, the host of the 'Jeopardy!' game show, are combined with extensively recomposed quotations from the work of Anton Bruckner and a chance-controlled melange of sounds from an ensemble of seven heckelphones, producing a remorseless soundscape of contemporary terror. Yet the Kaisersaschern audience couldn't help tapping its feet to the bouncy mambo finale.