Question
This critic’s book, Listen to This, takes its title from his article that begins, “I hate ‘classical music’: not the thing but the name.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this man music critic for The New Yorker. His blog shares a title with his book about the history of 20th-century classical music, The Rest Is Noise.
ANSWER: Alex Ross
[10h] Ross claims that a book by this author contains “the most startling forty-five-page history of music ever written.” That book by this author explains instruments he created, including cloud-chamber bowls and a diamond marimba, which has 11-limit tuning.
ANSWER: Harry Partch (That book is Genesis of a Music.)
[10e] Ross’s article “Song of the Earth” is an exploration of the “arctic sound” of a composer with this last name. A different American composer with this last name wrote the operas Doctor Atomic and Nixon in China.
ANSWER: Adams [accept John Luther Adams; accept John Coolidge Adams]
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Summary
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 21 | 14.76 | 100% | 33% | 14% |
Data
| Arizona State | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Toronto C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois A | NYU | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana | MIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| LSE | Maryland | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | North Carolina B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia State | Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State | Virginia Tech | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers | RIT | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech | Texas | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Toronto B | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | UCF | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Virginia | Penn State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| British Columbia | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt | Waterloo A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Winona State | Minnesota | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |