Jake Heggie - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

The mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade wrote the text for this composer’s song cycle Paper Wings, the most popular song in which is called “A Route to the Sky.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this contemporary American composer of the operas Moby-Dick and Dead Man Walking.

ANSWER: Jake Heggie (“HEG-ghee”)

[10m] The first song in Paper Wings opens by quoting a lullaby from Joseph Canteloube’s (“kahnt-LOOB’s”) folk song collection titled for a region of this country. Other songs from this country include “After a Dream,” written by a composer whose Requiem omits a Dies Irae in favor of an oft-excerpted Pie Jesu (“PEE-yay YAY-zoo”).

ANSWER: France (The song cycle is Chants d’Auvergne, the composer is Gabriel Fauré and his song “Après un rêve.”)

[10e] The last song in Paper Wings opens with a quotation from this short piano piece. This A minor bagatelle by Beethoven is known by a nickname alluding to its dedicatee.

ANSWER: “Für Elise” [or Bagatelle No. 25; or WoO 59]

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	7	17.14	100%	71%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	6.67	0%	33%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	60%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Bowdoin A	Boston College B	0	10	10	20
Bowdoin B	Brandeis B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis A	Bowdoin C	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	Clark Wilson	0	10	10	20
MIT	Harvard	0	10	10	20
Tufts B	Amherst	0	10	10	20
Yale	BU	0	0	10	10
North Carolina A	South Carolina	0	0	0	0
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Virginia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Missouri	Truman	10	10	10	30
Squidward Community College	Missouri	0	10	10	20
Truman	WashU	0	0	10	10
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	0	10	10	20
In the Mood for Buzz	The cult of SGA	0	10	10	20
Madmen and Specialists	Social credit go vroom	0	10	10	20
Paddington in Peru (2024)	Old and Young	0	0	10	10
bingy academy	Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	0	10	10	20
Penn State	Maryland	0	0	10	10
Pitt	RIT	0	10	10	20
UCF A	Florida Tech	0	0	10	10
UCF B	UF A	0	10	10	20
UF B	USF	0	0	0	0
UF C	Valencia	0	0	10	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
Berkeley Past	Stanford	0	0	10	10
McGill A	Toronto Metropolitan A	0	10	10	20
McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Carleton A	0	0	10	10
Waterloo Aspidistra	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	0	10	10	20
Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	Waterloo Basic	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	Waterloo Cloze	0	10	10	20
Innovation Academy B	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Johns Creek	Georgia Tech C	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Mississippi State	Lambert	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Illinois Orange	0	0	10	10
Illinois Blue	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame	Purdue A	0	0	0	0
SIUE	Purdue B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
LSE B	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
LSE A	Southampton	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Warwick B	0	10	10	20
Bristol	Warwick C	0	10	10	20
ALCU	Jason et al.	0	10	10	20
Claremont	Anderson et al.	0	10	10	20
U[C]SD	SGV Ventures	0	10	10	20