Question
This man inspired a “secular” cantata that Virgil Thomson called “superficially warlike,” subtitled A Free Song. Baritone Nmon Ford premiered a Jennifer Higdon piece inspired by this man, which draws on a 1946 oratorio written after FDR’s death. Faye Robinson and the Boston Symphony Orchestra premiered a 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning piece for voice and orchestra named for a work by this man, the most famous piece by George Walker. A B-flat minor brass fanfare on the word (*) “Behold” opens a symphony inspired by this author, whose fourth movement, “The Explorers,” has the orchestra imitate a ship carrying away the soul. Three poems by this author inspired the Dona nobis pacem by a composer who also used his poems for A Sea Symphony. For 10 points, name this author who inspired Paul Hindemith’s oratorio When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. ■END■
Summary
2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.50 |
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Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Sam Foo | Eugene o'Negging | A VK a Day Keeps the Doctor Away | 61 | 15 |
Richard Niu | The Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola | 1.g4 Test Mixture | 68 | 15 |
Ophir | mnemonists | chamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia | 76 | -5 |
Vincent Du | UNC A | UNC Hunny | 77 | -5 |
Ivvone Zhou | UNC B | Duke | 77 | 10 |
Raymond Wang | Naocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew Hesse | Let's Fighting Love | 78 | 10 |
Keven Park | >:3 | Noli Me Tangerine | 80 | 10 |
Joy An | boy's jitches (ft. DMA) | NJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess) | 80 | -5 |
Joel Miles | Riley et al. | The Present King of James is Bald | 80 | 10 |
Matt Jackson | Chicago A Minus Minus | Charlotte Mewing to get that chiseled farmer’s bride jawline | 81 | 10 |
Max Brodsky | Nobodaddy but you | BHSU | 84 | 10 |
Jeremy Cummings | Oh the Missouri | purdoobie brothers | 84 | 10 |
Jordan Brownstein | JinAh and Jordan from Wikiquiz | JJaryland | 89 | 10 |
Andrei Hui | Heat-Oppressed Brains | You, Me and the Big G | 95 | 10 |
Adam Silverman | Labour's Lost Lovers | Triple Round Robin Lovers | 99 | -5 |
Iain Carpenter | Sandmännchen im Helikopter | Parden the Interruption | 109 | 10 |
Milan Fernandez | Cleo: 5/7 movie | Free-ish Agents | 130 | 10 |
Mason Yu | Jason Lovers | Jeffrey and Dahmers | 133 | 10 |
Henry Cafaro | Chicago B | 2 days into college and I'm 3 lectures behind | 136 | 10 |
Ben Dahl | malcolm in the middlemarch (Purdue 1) | Michigan | 138 | 10 |
Fierro Grey | NJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess) | boy's jitches (ft. DMA) | 139 | 10 |
John Stathis | UNC Hunny | UNC A | 139 | 10 |
Alex Jiang | Jason Lovers | Clark A | 140 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | Triple Round Robin Lovers | Labour's Lost Lovers | 140 | 10 |
Jeffrey Fung | Jeffrey and Dahmers | Clark B | 140 | 10 |
Derek Chen | chamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia | mnemonists | 140 | 10 |
Mike Bentley | World's Fair Wiggle Walk | Houston Junior College | 140 | 10 |