violin concerto - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

Answer the following about Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina (“goo-bye-DOO-lin-uh”), who died in 2025. For 10 points each:

[10m] Gubaidulina’s 1980 piece Offertorium was a piece in this genre dedicated to Gidon Kremer. Hilary Hahn recorded an E minor piece in this genre by Felix Mendelssohn with the Oslo Philharmonic in 2002.

ANSWER: violin concerto [prompt on concerto]

[10e] Gubaidulina also wrote the score for the 1967 Soviet animated film Adventures of Mowgli, which was based on this Rudyard Kipling collection whose Disney adaptation was released the same year.

ANSWER: The Jungle Book

[10h] Gubaidulina dedicated her piece Canticle of the Sun to this Russian cellist, dubbed by Julian Lloyd Webber as “probably the greatest cellist of all time.” This cellist was the dedicatee of both of Shostakovich’s cello concerti and Prokofiev's cello sonata.

ANSWER: Mstislav Rostropovich [or Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich]

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Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	14.44	100%	33%	11%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	16.67	100%	58%	8%
Pacific	Main	Y	9	20.00	100%	78%	22%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	15.00	100%	33%	17%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
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Claremont A	UC Santa Barbara	10	10	0	20
UCLA D	UCLA C	0	10	0	10
UCLA E	Claremont C	10	10	10	30
UCSD B	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
UC Irvine	USC A	0	10	0	10
Guelph A	Waterloo B	0	10	0	10
Toronto C	McMaster A	10	10	0	20
Toronto D	Toronto A	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Waterloo A	10	10	0	20
Toronto E	Waterloo C	10	10	0	20
Brock A	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
McMaster B	Toronto G	10	10	0	20
McMaster C	Toronto H	10	10	0	20
Queen's A	Toronto I	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	UCLA F	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	CWRU A	10	10	10	30
CWRU B	Michigan State A	10	10	0	20
Louisville A	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Louisville D	CWRU C	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Kentucky	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Michigan State B	CWRU D	10	10	0	20
Michigan State D	Ohio State D	0	10	0	10
Ohio State C	Pittsburgh	0	10	0	10
Louisville C	WVU A	0	10	0	10
WVU B	Michigan State C	0	10	0	10
JMU A	Duke A	10	10	0	20
JMU B	Tusculum A	0	0	0	0
VCU A	UNC D	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech C	UNC B	10	10	0	20
Liberty A	William & Mary B	10	10	0	20
Liberty B	Liberty C	10	10	0	20
Rutgers B	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
Maryland A	George Mason A	0	10	0	10
George Mason B	Vassar A	0	10	0	10
George Mason C	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Penn	Johns Hopkins	10	10	0	20
Princeton	Lehigh B	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Maryland C	0	10	0	10
Lehigh A	NYU B	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers C	Rowan	0	10	0	10
Stony Brook	Rutgers D	0	10	0	10
Vassar B	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Chicago B	William Woods University A	0	10	0	10
Illinois Blue	WashU Grizzlers	10	10	0	20
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Iowa A	Illinois Champaign	0	10	0	10
Rose-Hulman A	Illinois Orange	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Indiana A	10	10	0	20
Indiana B	Iowa B	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
WashU Grolars	Purdue C	0	10	0	10
Williams A	Amherst A	10	10	10	30
Williams B	Boston College A	10	10	0	20
Boston University A	Tufts B	0	10	0	10
Brown B	Brandeis Mozart	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth A	Tufts A	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth B	MIT A	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth C	MIT B	10	10	0	20
Amherst B	Southern Connecticut State University A	10	10	0	20
Tufts C	Boston College B	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Bach	Vermont A	0	10	0	10
Vermont B	Brown A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Beethoven	Williams C	0	10	0	10
Washington Pink	Alberta A	10	10	0	20
Arizona State B	British Columbia C	10	10	0	20
Washington Sockeye	British Columbia A	10	10	10	30
Washington State	British Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Texas	Arizona State A	0	10	0	10
Washington Atlantic	Washington Masu	10	10	0	20
Washington Chinook	Alberta B	10	10	0	20
Washington Steelhead	Washington Chum	10	10	10	30
Washington Coho	Boise State	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Louisville B	10	10	0	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech F	0	10	0	10
Emory A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	10	30
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Tennessee Tech	Georgia Tech E	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State A	Auburn C	0	10	0	10
Sewanne	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Chipola College	0	10	0	10
Clemson A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt C	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Durham C	Durham A	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh C	Edinburgh B	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh A	Edinburgh D	0	10	0	10
Sheffield B	Sheffield A	10	10	0	20
Durham B	York	10	10	0	20
Oxford	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Cambridge B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge D	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Imperial C	Imperial D	10	10	0	20
LSE	Cambridge E	10	10	0	20
Cardiff	Southampton	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Warwick	10	10	0	20
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Binghamton A	RIT A	0	10	0	10
Cornell D	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Binghamton C	ESF	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Cornell B	10	10	0	20
RIT B	Cornell A	0	10	0	10