Kaddish - 2023 ACF Winter - Buzzpoints App

Question

Maurice Ravel’s setting of this hymn begins with sparse piano chords, and it precedes “The Eternal Enigma” in his collection Two Hebrew Melodies. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this prayer that a boys’ choir recites throughout Leonard Bernstein’s Third Symphony, whose “Din Torah” (“DEEN toh-RAH”) movement narrates a confrontation with God.

ANSWER: Kaddish [accept “Kaddish” Symphony]

[10e] Another “Kaddish” Symphony is by Mieczysław (“m’YEH-chih-swaff”) Weinberg, a composer born in this modern-day country. Krzysztof Penderecki (“k’SHISH-toff pen-deh-RETS-kee”) memorialized events such as the Warsaw Uprising in his requiem named for this European country.

ANSWER: Poland [or Polska; accept Polish Requiem or Polskie Requiem]

[10h] This Swiss-born composer set the Kaddish in his Sacred Service after he emigrated to the United States. This composer’s “Jewish Cycle” also includes an Ecclesiastes-inspired “Hebraic rhapsody” for cello and orchestra.

ANSWER: Ernest Bloch (The rhapsody is Schelomo.)

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Summary


2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia	11/11/2023	Y	9	17.78	100%	67%	11%
2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	N	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	N	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	N	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	15.00	75%	25%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	N	5	26.00	100%	100%	60%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	N	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	N	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	N	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	N	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	N	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


Cornell C	Princeton B	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Columbia C	10	10	0	20
Penn A	Haverford	0	10	0	10
Princeton A	Bard A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers B	Columbia A	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Penn B	10	10	0	20
Yale B	Rowan A	0	10	0	10
Vassar	Yale C	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A	NYU B	10	10	0	20