This composer and conductor was an early champion of the music of the Swiss composer Joachim Raff. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this composer who collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock to write the soundtracks for the films North by Northwest and Vertigo.
ANSWER: Bernard Herrmann [or Maximillian Herman]
[10h] Herrmann wrote his berceuse (“bair-SUZ”) For the Fallen for the American Symphony Orchestra and this conductor, who founded the orchestra. This conductor earlier used free bowing to create the “Philadelphia sound.”
ANSWER: Leopold Stokowski (“stoh-KOFF-skee”) [or Leopold Anthony Stokowski]
[10e] Herrmann’s suite from Psycho is often performed by ensembles made up of players of this family of instruments, who sit closest to the conductor in standard orchestral seating.
ANSWER: strings [accept violin family; accept bowed string family; accept string section]
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