Four Last Songs - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

Despite its name, this work is [emphasize] not its composer’s final work, as he wrote and dedicated a piece that he called his “last rose” to the Moravian soprano Maria Jeritza (“HAIR-it-sa”) two months later. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this song cycle that quotes a motif from its composer’s tone poem Death and Transfiguration after the soprano sings its final words, “Is this, perhaps, death?”

ANSWER: Four Last Songs [or Vier Letzte Lieder]

[10e] This composer’s Four Last Songs describes how summer lingers on “by the roses” before “slowly it closes its large / eyes grown weary.” This composer also wrote Also Sprach Zarathustra.

ANSWER: Richard Strauss [prompt on Strauss]

[10m] Many composers have adapted Thomas Moore’s poem “The Last Rose of Summer” into pieces using this musical form. Robert Schumann exclaimed, “Hats off, gentlemen; a genius!” in response to one of these pieces by Frédéric Chopin for piano.

ANSWER: theme and variations [accept any answer containing variations]

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	20.00	100%	40%	60%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	16.00	80%	40%	40%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	10.00	67%	0%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	10	10	30
McDouble West-Carleton	Toronto Ray Of Sun in the Sky	0	10	0	10
Waterloo	Ottawa A	0	10	0	10
Ottawa B	Ottawa C	0	0	0	0
I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me	Claremont	0	10	0	10
Duke	James Madison B	0	10	0	10
James Madison A	NC State	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Emory A	Georgia B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Georgia A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Cambridge A	Durham	10	10	10	30
Oxford	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Warwick	Cambridge B	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Notre Dame B	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt	Illinois B	10	10	0	20
Indiana	Purdue B	0	0	0	0
Georgetown	George Washington B	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins	George Washington A	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
OSU A	Kenyon B	0	10	0	10
Kenyon A	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Michigan B	0	0	0	0
MSU A and Friend	Boston College	0	10	0	10
Farrellmagnetism	Arizona State	0	10	10	20
Ganon Evans Fan Club	Zen and the Art of Buzzing	0	10	0	10
Syracuse+Rochester	Cornell MATLAB	0	10	0	10
Cornell R	RIT	10	10	10	30
TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version	Texas C	10	10	0	20
TAMU	HCC	0	0	0	0
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	0	10
Missouri B	Missouri A	0	0	0	0
Squidward Community College	SIUE	0	10	0	10
WUSTL H2O	WUSTL XYZ	0	10	0	10