Yellow River Cantata - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

At the 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony, Láng Lǎng performed the fourth movement of Yīn Chéngzōng and Chu Wanghua’s piano concerto arrangement of this choral piece. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this piece allegedly written in six days after its composer read a patriotic poem by Guāng Wèirán. This piece’s first movement opens with a male speaker extolling the strength and bravery of boatmen.

ANSWER: Yellow River Cantata [accept Huánghé Dàhéchàng]

[10e] The Yellow River Cantata was composed by Xiǎn Xīnghǎi, a composer from this country also home to Láng Lǎng.

ANSWER: China [or People’s Republic of China; or PRC; or Zhōngguó; or Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó; reject “Republic of China”]

[10m] Xiǎn studied composition at the Paris Conservatory under this composer. A jaunty bassoon melody in 3/8 opens the main theme of a tone poem by this composer subtitled “Scherzo after a ballad by Goethe.”

ANSWER: Paul Dukas [or Paul Abraham Dukas] (The tone poem is The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.)

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	14.29	100%	14%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	6	11.67	100%	0%	17%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	10.00	100%	0%	0%
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	10	11.00	100%	10%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	9	11.11	100%	0%	11%

Data


Stanford L	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
Berkeley C	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Princeton A	Bard A	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Rutgers A	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame	Purdue C	0	10	0	10
UChicago B	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
Kenyon B (DII)	CWRU A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	CWRU C (UG)	0	10	0	10
Central Oklahoma	Iowa	0	10	0	10
McGill E	Vassar B	0	10	0	10
UF B	Florida Tech A	0	10	0	10
UF A	Florida Tech B	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin A	Clark A	0	10	0	10
BU B	Diamond Brandeis	0	10	0	10
Miami	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Purdue D	UChicago D	0	10	0	10
UChicago A	SIUE A	0	10	0	10
WashU B	UIUC A	0	10	10	20
WashU D	Northwestern A	0	10	0	10
Michigan State A	Michigan State C (UG)	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan State B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State C (DII)	CWRU B (UG)	10	10	0	20
UCF A	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UF E	UF C	0	10	0	10
Florida State University A	UF F	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	Birmingham	0	10	10	20
Cambridge D	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Edinburgh	0	10	0	10
Oxford B	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Bristol B	LSE B	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Bristol A	0	10	0	10
Southampton A	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Durham B	Vanderbilt	0	10	0	10
Stanford M	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Hopkins B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Penn State B	10	10	0	20
Penn A	Lehigh A	0	10	10	20
Haverford A	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Penn State A	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
Arkansas	Colorado College	0	10	0	10
Texas B	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
NYU A	WUSTL A	0	10	0	10
Texas D	Oregon State	0	10	0	10
Missouri	Texas A	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	Ole Miss	0	10	0	10
A Brandeis Supreme	Amherst A	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Carabrandeis	0	10	0	10
Northeastern A	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Tufts B	MIT A	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin B	Williams A	0	10	0	10
Yale B	Boston University A	0	10	0	10
Yale C	Brown A	10	10	0	20