A composer with this surname wrote a piece scored for “9 to 99” percussionists that the audience can freely walk between called Inuksuit. That composer with this surname wrote a trilogy of nature-inspired pieces whose titles begin with the word “become,” the second of which won a Pulitzer Prize. A composer with this surname adapted an excerpt from one of his operas into a “foxtrot for orchestra” and wrote a fanfare for the Great Woods Festival in which a sports car is evoked by a woodblock ostinato. The word “missing” is repeated in a “memory space” by a composer with this surname dedicated to victims of 9/11. For 10 points, give the surname of the composer of Short Ride in a Fast Machine and On the Transmigration of Souls, John Coolidge. ■END■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 14 | 93% | 0% | 14% | 95.69 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 70% | 0% | 10% | 98.57 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.33 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 20% | 106.67 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 77% | 0% | 8% | 98.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 96.86 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 94.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 10 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 88.75 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 20 | -5 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto D | 40 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Amherst A | 40 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Arizona State B | 40 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Manchester A | 40 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | LSE A | 40 | 10 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt B | 46 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland A | 48 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Tufts B | 48 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Sheffield A | 48 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Auburn A | 51 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto G | 54 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto B | 66 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Williams | 66 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | George Washington B | 78 | -5 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Illinois C | 82 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | Indiana B | 82 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Michigan C | 83 | -5 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | SIUE | 85 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell-UG | Dartmouth | 85 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Iowa | 85 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Texas A | 85 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | Imperial A | 85 | 10 |
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | Notre Dame E | 86 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown A | Penn B | 86 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Illinois A | 86 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown A | Harvard | 86 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 86 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Sheffield C | 86 | 10 |
| Jack O'Brien | Georgetown B | Maryland B | 87 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | UCO | 88 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Alberta B | 88 | 10 |
| Ella Tang | McGill C | Toronto I | 89 | 10 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Durham A | 89 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Edinburgh B | 91 | -5 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Truman State | 95 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | UIC | 95 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 101 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | City St George's A | 101 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Carleton | 106 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McGill B | 106 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Notre Dame D | 106 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton B | Cambridge D | 106 | -5 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU D | 109 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | Warwick B | 109 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | McGill D | 121 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Alabama B | 121 | 10 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | Toronto C | 122 | -5 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | VCU A | 122 | 10 |
| Aiden Hart | Kentucky | Michigan D | 122 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Auburn B | 122 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Bristol B | 122 | 10 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | Brandeis Clemenceau | 124 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Purdue B | 125 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 128 | -5 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Northwestern B | 128 | 10 |
| Nick Lane | George Washington A | Catholic University | 130 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 130 | 10 |
| Hassan Elshayeb | Waterloo | Guelph B | 131 | 0 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | McMaster A | 131 | 0 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's B | McMaster B | 131 | 0 |
| Ava Butler | McGill A | Guelph A | 131 | 10 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Queen's B | 131 | 0 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 131 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Waterloo | 131 | 0 |
| Kevin He | Toronto E | Western Ontario | 131 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Queen's A | 131 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | UMBC A | 131 | 0 |
| Omer Korkmaz | Johns Hopkins B | Maryland D | 131 | 0 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland D | Johns Hopkins B | 131 | 0 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Penn A | 131 | 10 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | Chicago B | 131 | 10 |
| Raymond Ha | Chicago D | Notre Dame A | 131 | 0 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Purdue C | 131 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | BU | 131 | 0 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | BC A | 131 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Orlando | 131 | 0 |
| Kelly Dang | UTD B | Tulsa | 131 | 0 |
| Jarrod Curl | Tulsa | UTD B | 131 | 0 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Northwestern C | 131 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Huntsville B | 131 | 0 |
| Ethan Buermann | Huntsville B | Sewanee A | 131 | 0 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | UAB A | 131 | 10 |
| Oliver Rothnie | Durham B | Imperial C | 131 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Cambridge A | 131 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | LSE B | 131 | 0 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Lancaster A | 131 | 10 |
| Juliette Flatau | Imperial C | Durham B | 131 | 0 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge D | Southampton B | 131 | 10 |