Question
This piece was commissioned alongside works like Michael Tippett’s King Priam after the destruction of Coventry Cathedral in a bombing raid. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this work whose premiere at the reconstructed cathedral launched a tradition of using a second conductor to manage the chamber orchestra. The text of this piece interweaves nine poems by Wilfred Owen.
ANSWER: War Requiem, Op. 66
[10e] This English composer of the War Requiem also collected a set of Four Sea Interludes from his opera Peter Grimes.
ANSWER: Benjamin Britten [or Edward Benjamin Britten]
[10h] In the War Requiem, this kind of ensemble performs from offstage accompanied by a portable organ. Britten’s Missa brevis is scored for this ensemble and organ.
ANSWER: boys’ choir [accept children’s choir or treble choir; accept chorus in place of “choir”; prompt on choir or chorus; reject “male choir” or “male chorus”]
<MY, Classical Music>
Summary
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| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
Data
| UC Berkeley A | Claremont A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UCSD | Claremont B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UCLA | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida B | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UCF B | Valencia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UCF C | Florida State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Carnegie Mellon A | Kenyon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan B | Carnegie Mellon B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan C | Case Western A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Case Western B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State B | Michigan A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan State | Michigan D | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UNC B | Liberty C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Liberty A | South Carolina | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UNC C | William & Mary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UNC D | Virginia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia A | Duke | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Wake Forest | Liberty B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Illinois C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Indiana B | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WashU A | Chicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois A | WashU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Indiana A | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Missouri | Missoui S&T | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Winona State | Wisconsin A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Wisconsin B | Carleton | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BU | Brown A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dartmouth A | Tufts A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Harvard A | Harvard B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Brandeis A | MIT A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Brandeis B | UMass Boston | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UBC | Alberta | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UW A | UW B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Texas A | ASU | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Texas B | TAMU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Louisville A | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Alabama A | Tennessee A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Haverford A | George Washington B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| John Jay College | Vassar A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Maryland B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU B | Haverford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | Columbia C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| George Washington A | Penn B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Binghamton A | ESF A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell C | Cornell D | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| RIT A | RIT B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |