This composer’s Opus 41 Variations gives the swing treatment to The Rite of Spring’s opening bassoon theme. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Soviet composer with a 21st-century cult following whose 20 piano sonatas infuse classical forms with written-out jazz. A driving Toccatina in E minor is the third of his Eight Concert Études, Opus 40.
ANSWER: Nikolai Kapustin
[10e] This crossover “jazz concerto,” orchestrated by Grofé, was a hit when Paul Whiteman’s band premiered it at the Aeolian Hall concert “An Experiment in Modern Music” with the composer improvising at the piano.
ANSWER: Rhapsody in Blue
[10h] This Frenchman arranged Django’s Nuages, Piaf’s pop, and Gillespie’s A Night in Tunisia, where he was born, for classical guitar. He composed Tango en Skaï (“on sky”) and Hommage à Villa-Lobos, dedicated Libra Sonatina to his heart surgeon, and started his recitals with improvisations.
ANSWER: Roland Dyens (“ro-LAWN dee-YAWNCE”) (Skaï or “artificial hide” refers to him not being Argentinian to write a bona fide tango.)
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