Leopold Stokowski - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

In the coda of a piece titled Bells for [this conductor], Michael Daugherty emulated this conductor’s namesake rumbling “sound.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this conductor who often did not use a baton during his flamboyant performances. This conductor arranged Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor for the film Fantasia, which he conducted.

ANSWER: Leopold Stokowski [or Leopold Anthony Stokowski; accept Bells for Stokowski]

[10e] Stokowski’s characteristic sound was partly created by string players freely choosing which direction to move these objects, which they coat with rosin to increase the friction against the strings.

ANSWER: bows

[10m] Bells for Stokowski was commissioned by this city’s “Big Five” Orchestra, which Stokowski conducted before he was succeeded by Eugene Ormandy. The Curtis Institute of Music is located in this city.

ANSWER: Philadelphia [accept Philadelphia Orchestra]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	21.11	100%	67%	44%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	9	15.56	100%	33%	22%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	N	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	N	9	15.56	100%	56%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	N	9	12.22	100%	22%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	N	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	N	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	N	8	18.75	100%	50%	38%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Stanford L	Stanford M	10	10	10	30
Auburn A	Tusculum A	10	10	0	20
Auburn C	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Emory A	Georgia A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Tennesse A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Emory B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	South Carolina A	0	10	10	20
Penn State B	Lehigh A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	UChicago D	0	10	10	20
UChicago A	Notre Dame	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	UIUC C	10	10	0	20
UIUC D	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
UChicago C	Indiana A	10	10	10	30
UIUC A	UChicago B	10	10	10	30
UIUC B	Purdue D	0	10	0	10
WashU B	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
SIUE A	WashU D	0	10	0	10
Central Oklahoma	Texas D	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Colorado College	0	10	10	20
Iowa	Texas C	0	10	10	20
Missouri	McGill E	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Oregon State	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Arkansas	0	10	10	20
Vassar B	Texas B	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	WUSTL A	0	10	0	10
UW B	Alberta	0	10	10	20
UBC B	SFU	0	10	0	10
UBC A	UW A	10	10	10	30
Florida Tech A	Florida State University A	0	10	0	10
UF B	Florida Tech B	0	10	0	10
UCF A	UF A	0	10	0	10
UF C	UF F	0	10	0	10
UF D	UF E	0	10	0	10
Birmingham	Bristol B	0	10	10	20
LSE A	Cambridge A	0	10	10	20
Bristol A	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	LSE B	10	10	10	30
Imperial B	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Durham B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Oxford B	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Southhampton B	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt	Warwick A	0	10	0	10