Question
Answer the following about pieces of music written to commemorate the United States Bicentennial in 1976, for 10 points each.
[10e] In this composer’s Apartment House 1776, four soloists represent Protestant, Sephardic, Native American, and African American traditions. David Tudor premiered this composer’s silent piece 4'33" (“four-thirty-three”).
ANSWER: John Cage [or John Milton Cage, Jr.]
[10m] This composer wrote numerous commissions for the Bicentennial, including his opera The Hero satirizing Watergate. He is best-known for a Christmas opera that was specifically composed for TV.
ANSWER: Gian Carlo Menotti (That opera is Amahl and the Night Visitors.)
[10h] The French composer Olivier Messiaen (“oh-leev-YAY mess-YAWN”) traveled to Utah while writing this piece for the Bicentennial, which includes a challenging horn solo dubbed an “Interstellar Call.” Five of this piece’s 12 movements are inspired by birdsong from across the US.
ANSWER: Des canyons aux étoiles… [or From the canyons to the stars…]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 63% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Stanford A | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell A | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Binghamton | RIT A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell B | RIT B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| GWU A (UG) | Virginia B (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Liberty B (DII) | GWU B (Grad) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| William & Mary A (UG) | JMU A (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke A (UG) | JMU B (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UNC B (UG) | Liberty C (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland A (Grad) | Maryland C (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland B (UG) | Virginia C (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UNC C (UG) | Roanoke College A (DII) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Liberty A (Grad) | UNC D (DII) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia A (UG) | UNC A (Grad) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford C | Stanford B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont A | Iowa B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Iowa A | Appalachian State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UBC A | Rice A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Sorbonne | Michigan State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas A&M B | Texas A&M A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UW A | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan C | Kenyon | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Ohio State B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Michigan B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| John Jay | Penn | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Haverford | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Rowan | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia C | Vassar | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Kiel | Oxford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cambridge A | Sheffield | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Bristol | Oxford C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge B | Oxford B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Warwick | Durham A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Imperial B | Edinburgh | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Durham B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cambridge C | KCL | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Alabama | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Tennessee | Geodesic | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Harding | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt A | MTSU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | South Carolina | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Dartmouth B | Dartmouth A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard B | Harvard A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Tufts B | Tufts A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |