Vexations - 2024 ARCADIA - Buzzpoints App

Question

The only person to stay for the entirety of this piece’s premiere, Karl Schenzer, later appeared on the game show I’ve Got A Secret with Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this piano piece that premiered in Manhattan in 1963, many years after it was composed. This piece’s single-page manuscript is full of double flats and double sharps and is marked Très lent.

ANSWER: Vexations (by Erik Satie)

[10e] This composer rediscovered Satie's Vexations at Black Mountain College and organized a team of pianists to play its 840 repetitions at its premiere. That team included David Tudor, who premiered this composer's 4’33” (“four-thirty-three”).

ANSWER: John Cage

[10m] Joshua Rifkin, an alternate pianist for the Vexations premiere, revived this other composer’s reputation with a landmark 1970 Nonesuch recording of three of his pieces. This composer’s music was used for the theme of the 1973 film The Sting.

ANSWER: Scott Joplin

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	7	14.29	100%	29%	14%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	0%	100%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	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	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	0%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	N	6	15.00	83%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	N	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	N	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

Data


BU	Boston College A	0	10	0	10
Harvard	Boston College B	0	10	0	10
Tufts A	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Virginia Tech B	0	10	10	20
South Carolina	Virginia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Squidward Community College	WashU	10	10	0	20
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	Old and Young	0	10	10	20
Paddington in Peru (2024)	Madmen and Specialists	0	10	10	20
Social credit go vroom	The cult of SGA	0	10	0	10
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	In the Mood for Buzz	0	10	10	20
bingy academy	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	0	10	10	20
RIT	Maryland	0	10	10	20
Pitt	Penn State	0	10	10	20
UCF B	Valencia	0	10	10	20
UF C	UF A	0	10	0	10
UF B	UCF A	0	10	0	10
Florida Tech	USF	0	0	0	0
Berkeley Past	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Milton	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Milton	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
Lambert	Georgia Tech C	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Innovation Academy C	0	10	0	10
Innovation Academy B	Innovation Academy A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Johns Creek	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Milton	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Milton	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Mississippi State	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Innovation Academy B	10	10	0	20
MIT	Bowdoin A	10	10	10	30
Brandeis A	Tufts B	0	10	10	20
Yale	Clark House	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Bristol	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	LSE A	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Southampton	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Warwick C	0	10	10	20
Amherst	Bowdoin C	0	10	0	10