San Francisco Symphony - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

In March 2024, the resignation of this orchestra’s music director led musicians to release an open letter to the Board of Governors criticizing conservative programming and touring decisions. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this orchestra, whose previous music director Michael Tilson Thomas left shortly before announcing his brain cancer diagnosis in 2021.

ANSWER: San Francisco Symphony [or SFS]

[10e] Both Tilson Thomas and his successor Esa-Pekka Salonen moved to the San Francisco Symphony after previous appointments with an orchestra in this nearby city that plays in the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

ANSWER: Los Angeles [or L.A.]

[10m] This current music director for the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced in 2023 that he would leave the orchestra at the end of his contract for the New York Philharmonic. This Venezuelan conductor oversaw the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra’s transition away from being a youth orchestra.

ANSWER: Gustavo Dudamel [or Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez]

<JC, Classical Music>

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	26.00	100%	100%	60%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	6	13.33	83%	33%	17%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	18.89	100%	67%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	7	14.29	100%	43%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	13.33	67%	33%	33%

Data


Michigan B	Ohio State C	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
girl 15 whale i mean they	Art of Premature Signaling	10	10	10	30
Jason B	Claremont B	0	10	10	20
UCLA A	Caltech	10	10	10	30
UCSB	UCLA B	0	10	10	20
Claremont A	UCSD	10	10	10	30
Lexington	Brandeis	0	10	0	10
Harvard	Brown	0	10	10	20
MIT	Belmont	0	10	10	20
Boston University	RIT	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	George Mason B	10	10	10	30
George Mason C	CWRU	0	0	0	0
Georgetown	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	NYU C	0	10	10	20
Haverford A	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Rutgers	0	10	0	10
Alberta	Arizona State University A	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Arizona State University B	0	10	0	10
UW B	South Dakota School of Mines	0	10	0	10
UW A	Washington Connections	0	10	0	10
Quatumvirate	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	0	10	10	20
Four Generalists in Search of a Power	Egypt Airlines Haters	0	10	10	20
Free Agents 1	Notre Dame + Epic Games	0	10	10	20
Goober Gang	Auburn 2026	0	10	0	10
Illinois Orange	MSJ	0	10	10	20
Mahjonng Masters	mongeese	10	10	10	30
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	evil women enjoyers	0	10	0	10
Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	Gruh	0	10	10	20
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	we need new names	10	10	0	20
Sheffield C	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
LSE	Lancaster	0	10	0	10
Sheffield A	Manchester	0	10	10	20
Sheffield B	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Warwick C	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Mac A	UBC	0	10	0	10
Toronto C	McGill A	0	10	10	20
Ottawa A	McGill B	0	10	0	10
Waterloo A	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto A	0	10	10	20
Waterloo B	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	0	10
Waterloo C	Toronto E	0	10	0	10
Master and Margaritaville	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	10	10	10	30
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	10	10	10	30
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Truman State	10	10	10	30
Iowa State	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
SIUE	WashU Bulbasaur	0	0	0	0
WashU Squirtle	Chicago A	0	0	0	0
Billy's Bastion	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	0	10	10	20
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Too much from you lately	0	10	10	20
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	0	10	0	10