During the 2022 men’s Football World Cup I ran a thing that looked simple but was actually a bit epic:
Each team in each game of round one of the football World Cup represented by a short piece of music from the country, matched up like they were the games and you picked the winners…
Not the World Cup involved finding 110 short pieces of music from 32 countries, written by 107 composers. There were many exciting new discoveries for me and the whole thing was described as a ‘glorious celebration of classical music and world music’
All of the pieces of music are here!
Round 1:
8 groups, 4 ‘teams’ – countries, 3 pieces of music each, 12 games in each group!
GROUP A: Qatar, Ecuador, Senegal, Netherlands
Group B: England, Iran, Wales, USA
Group C: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Poland
Group D: France, Australia, Denmark, Tunisia
Group E: Spain, Costa Rica, Germany, Japan
Group F: Belgium, Canada, Morocco, Croatia
Group G: Brazil, Serbia, Switzerland, Cameroon
Group H: Portugal, Ghana, Uruguay, Korea Republic
Round 2:
Games 1 & 2: Senegal & USA; Mexico & Australia
Games 3 & 4: France vs Argentina; Wales vs Ecuador
Games 5 & 6: Costa Rica & Belgium; Brazil & Korea
Games 7 & 8: Morocco & Germany; Portugal & Cameroon
Quarter Finals
Coasta Rica & Korea; USA & Mexico
France & Ecuador; Germany & Cameroon
Semi finals
Final
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