War Requiem, Op. 66 - 2025 ACF Regionals

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”]

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California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	21.67	100%	100%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	50%	50%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	9	13.33	78%	56%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%

Data


Carnegie Mellon A	Kenyon	10	10	0	20
UNC B	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Texas B	TAMU	0	0	0	0
Louisville A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Alabama A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
UC Berkeley A	Claremont A	10	10	10	30
Florida B	Florida A	0	10	0	10
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
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
Indiana B	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Chicago D	10	10	0	20
Missouri	Missoui S&T	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
Brandeis A	MIT A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis B	UMass Boston	10	10	10	30
Texas A	ASU	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	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
Cornell C	Cornell D	0	10	10	20
RIT A	RIT B	10	10	10	30
UCSD	Claremont B	0	10	0	10
UCLA	UC Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
UCF B	Valencia A	0	10	0	10
UCF C	Florida State A	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Illinois C	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	WashU B	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Minnesota B	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth A	Tufts A	10	10	0	20
Harvard A	Harvard B	10	10	0	20
UBC	Alberta	0	10	0	10
UW A	UW B	10	10	10	30
Binghamton A	ESF A	10	10	0	20