John Cage - 2024 ACF Regionals

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
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
Stanford C	Stanford B	10	0	0	10
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
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
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
Kiel	Oxford A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Sheffield	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