Question
At the morendo end of this concerto’s second movement, the soloist plays a descending G major pentatonic scale in a series of harmonics. This piece’s final movement opens with low strings playing F-sharps before a trio of horns introduce the jaunty, triplet-laden main theme. The descending melody, “long high F-sharp, E D B, D A” begin the lyrical second theme of this concerto’s first movement. The soloist enters in major on the notes “long B, C-sharp D-sharp (*) B” in this piece, which was inspired by Victor Herbert’s second piece in the same genre. This concerto quotes its composer’s song “Leave Me Alone” in its third movement. When this concerto’s intended player, Hanuš Wihan (“HAWN-oosh WEE-hawn”), was unable to make the premiere, a gift of two rare pigeons helped Leo Stern become his replacement. For 10 points, name this B minor concerto for a low string soloist written by a Czech composer. ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 80.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 125.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | N | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 127.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 148.25 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 119.60 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 129.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Eric Chen | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Stanford+ | 75 | 15 |
Jeremy Tsai | just one more half-dot bro | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 77 | -5 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley | Cry of the Common Loon | 77 | 10 |
Max Brodsky | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Northeast by Northwestern | 80 | 10 |
Frances Hadley | Limp Franceskit | Cambridge | 83 | 10 |
Arthur Zhang | Cope is the thing with feathers | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | 86 | -5 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 86 | -5 |
Ryan Sun | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 88 | 10 |
John Lawrence | Walston et. al. | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 91 | 10 |
Ben Russell Jones | Simple Vibes | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 92 | 10 |
Tony Chen | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 95 | -5 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | hawk two of | 110 | 10 |
Rob Carson | BHSU Rebirth | Notre Dame | 117 | 10 |
Jeremy Cummings | WashU | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 142 | 10 |
Jared He | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 147 | 10 |
Kais Jessa | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 148 | 10 |
Mike Bentley | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | Clown Squad | 149 | 0 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Clown Squad | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 149 | 0 |
John Marvin | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Clown Senpais | 149 | 10 |
Michael Wu | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | Defying Suavity | 149 | 10 |
Isaac Kirk-Davidoff | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | just one more half-dot bro | 149 | 10 |
Fierro Grey | NJ TRANSit (and anwen | Cope is the thing with feathers | 149 | 10 |
Asha Basu | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 149 | 10 |
Micah Colman | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 149 | 10 |
Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 149 | 0 |
Ishan Joshi | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 149 | 0 |