In a live recording by this conductor, the trombones missed an entry due to an audience member suffering a heart attack. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this American conductor and composer who broadcast Young People’s Concerts while music director of the New York Philharmonic. This conductor made several recordings of his own works like West Side Story.
ANSWER: Leonard Bernstein
[10h] Bernstein’s only recording with the Berlin Philharmonic was a live recording of this symphony, which contains a Rondo-Burleske third movement. Bernstein suggested that a syncopated rhythm in the first movement of this symphony represents its composer’s heartbeat.
ANSWER: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9
[10m] Bernstein named his Norton lectures after a piece by this composer that contrasts increasingly dissonant woodwind parts with serene strings that represent “the Silence of the Druids” in response to a solo trumpet.
ANSWER: Charles Ives [or Charles Edward Ives] (The piece is The Unanswered Question.)
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