Question
This composer’s five attempts to win the Prix (“pree”) de Rome caused a scandal which forced Théodore Dubois to retire. Inspired by Aloysius Bertrand’s prose poems, this composer included the movements “Ondine” (“on-DEEN”) and “Scarbo” in a piano suite intended to surpass the difficulty of Balakirev’s Islamey. Ida Rubinstein commissioned a piece by this composer, which uses the melody (read slowly) “high C (pause) B C D C B A C.” This composer of the suite Gaspar de la Nuit (“nwee”) wrote a repetitive, triplet-heavy ostinato for snare drums in a piece which insistently repeats its melody until it reaches a fortissimo finish. For 10 points, which 20th-century French composer wrote Boléro? ■END■
ANSWER: Maurice Ravel [or Joseph Maurice Ravel]
<Classical Music>
= Average correct buzz position
Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 0% | 84.20 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 57.13 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 82.00 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 11 | 91% | 0% | 9% | 85.60 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 88.00 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 39.80 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 66.88 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 63.00 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Yang | Purdue A | SIUE | 9 | -5 |
| Dennis Yang (DII) | Michigan A (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | 10 | 10 |
| Alan Fan | UW Envy | Alberta | 14 | -5 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU A | Iowa A | 15 | 10 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Illinois A | 18 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter (DII) | Claremont A | UCLA D | 19 | 10 |
| Karl Wang (DII) | UCLA A | Claremont C | 31 | 10 |
| Steven Vicoria | Binghamton A | Cornell E | 32 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | CWRU A (UG) | 32 | 10 |
| Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Southern | 32 | 10 |
| Ethan Tran (DII) | UCLA E | Claremont B | 32 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy (DII) | USC | UCLA B | 32 | 10 |
| Arthur Zhang (DII) | NYU A (UG) | Penn A (DII) | 32 | 10 |
| Jason Qin (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | Columbia B | 32 | 10 |
| Andy Yu (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | Penn B (DII) | 32 | 10 |
| Rosie Zhang | UW Wrath | Arizona State B | 33 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | Miami B (UG) | 36 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech E | Auburn C | 36 | 10 |
| Jesse Mindle | NC State | James Madison B | 38 | 10 |
| Mark Lee (DII) | Michigan B (UG) | Michigan D (UG) | 39 | -5 |
| Matthew Lam (DII) | Ohio State A (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | 41 | 10 |
| Ishaan Singh | Purdue B | Northwestern A | 43 | 10 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State A | UW Chastity | 52 | -5 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Duke A | 52 | -5 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Illinois C | 52 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Georgia Tech A | 71 | 10 |
| Thomas Chen | Michigan C | West Virginia A (UG) | 74 | 10 |
| Lucas Shedlock (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | Lehigh A (UG) | 74 | 10 |
| Justin Qian | UBC B | UW Greed | 77 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush (DII) | Michigan State A | Miami C (DII) | 78 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | UBC A | UW Gluttony | 78 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame C | Iowa B | 79 | 10 |
| Jacob Moeller (DII) | Miami A (UG) | Ohio State C (DII) | 81 | 10 |
| Zachary Kant | Emory A | Auburn A | 82 | 10 |
| John Shelly (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | 82 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu (DII) | UCLA C | UCSD | 85 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell C | Cornell D | 86 | 10 |
| Gavin Bramer | Appalachian State B | Liberty C | 86 | 10 |
| Samuel Li | William & Mary | Virginia Tech A | 87 | 10 |
| Greta Hong (DII) | Bard A (UG) | Rutgers B | 87 | 10 |
| Anila Moparthi | Illinois B | WashU B | 88 | 10 |
| Alice Zhong | UNC A | James Madison A | 90 | 10 |
| Timothy Porter | VCU | Liberty A | 90 | 10 |
| Rohit Chintala (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | NYU B | 90 | 10 |
| Sammy Carstens | U of Rochester B | RIT C | 92 | 10 |
| Hayes Brown | Furman | Clemson A | 93 | -5 |
| Andrea Yu | UW Chastity | Arizona State A | 96 | 10 |
| Joseph Cole | UNC B | Virginia | 96 | 10 |
| Cameron Wiliams | Appalachian State A | Liberty B | 96 | 10 |
| Luke Strole | UW Pride | UW Lust | 103 | 10 |
| Brian Zhang | UNC C | UNC D | 103 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame B | Northwestern B | 103 | 10 |
| Iris Liang | Cornell G | RIT A | 105 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky (DII) | Michigan D (UG) | Michigan B (UG) | 105 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW Envy | 105 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Vanderbilt B | 105 | 10 |
| Brian Hoff | Cornell B | Cornell A | 106 | 0 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell A | Cornell B | 106 | 0 |
| Logan Pierce | ESF | Cornell F | 106 | 0 |
| Will Hoover | RIT B | Syracuse | 106 | 10 |
| Pierce DeCain | Cornell F | ESF | 106 | 0 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | Binghamton C | 106 | 0 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson A | Furman | 106 | 0 |
| Varun Venkatagiri | Georgia A | Georgia Tech B | 106 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 106 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 106 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina A | Tennessee B | 106 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina A | Tennessee B | 106 | 10 |
| Jessica Pham | Duke A | Tusculum | 106 | 10 |
| Saif Virani (UG) | Fordham A | Rutgers A (UG) | 106 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue C | Illinois D | 106 | 10 |