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A composer from this country who expressed a desire to “blow the opera houses up” clashed with his teacher over a ten-movement symphony that contains “love” and “statue” themes. Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho became influenced by spectralism while studying in this country’s IRCAM (“eer-cam”) institute. The clarinet plays solo in the “Abyss of the Birds” movement of a chamber piece that a composer from this country wrote in a prisoner of war camp. A whip-crack opens a jazz-inspired piano concerto by a composer from this country who also wrote an orchestral piece that uses a repetitive snare drum ostinato, his Boléro. For 10 points, name this home country of Olivier Messiaen and Maurice Ravel. ■END■
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| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 1 | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0.00 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 75.20 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.67 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 65.57 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 94.10 |
| North | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 9% | 85.91 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 84.50 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 65.20 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 17% | 81.55 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 9% | 78.00 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 53.50 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 77.63 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 76.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.80 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 15% | 80.77 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Georgetown A | 14 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Sheffield C | 21 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | CWRU A | 28 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | SIUE | 28 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Ottawa | 31 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | BU | 38 | 10 |
| Ella Tang | McGill C | Toronto K | 41 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Tennessee A | 41 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | OSU A | 43 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | OSU C | CWRU B | 43 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | Chicago A | 43 | 10 |
| Grace Ma | Brown C | Harvard | 43 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Huntsville A | 43 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Alabama A | 43 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Vanderbilt A | 43 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Durham B | 45 | 10 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Toronto D | 46 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 47 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri A | WashU B | 53 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 53 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | British Columbia C | 53 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Washington A | 53 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 54 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 54 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley F | 54 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | USC | 54 | 10 |
| Jack O'Brien | Georgetown B | Catholic University | 54 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Indiana A | 54 | 10 |
| Alan Fan | Washington B | Alberta | 54 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | British Columbia A | 54 | 10 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech B | Sewanee A | 54 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCI | 56 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Michigan A | 57 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Michigan C | 58 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 59 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | USF | 64 | 10 |
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | UMBC A | 64 | 10 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Columbia B | 64 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Lehigh A | 64 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | William Woods | 64 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | Dartmouth | 64 | 10 |
| Daniel Griffaton | Syracuse | RIT A | 64 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | UCSC | 67 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Liberty B | 68 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Cornell-UG | 68 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Queen's A | 71 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Purdue B | 71 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Macalester B | 71 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Bowdoin B | 71 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham A | Cambridge B | 71 | 10 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol B | LSE A | 71 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | MSU A | 73 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | City St George's A | 73 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | ESF | 73 | -5 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Cambridge D | 75 | 10 |
| Kieran Fake | CWRU C | Kenyon B | 76 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 76 | -5 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto J | 78 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 78 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech A | 78 | 10 |
| Kapil Nathan | UAB A | Huntsville B | 79 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Guelph A | 84 | 10 |
| Ethan Perrault | UF E | FSU | 89 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Purdue A | 94 | 10 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | McGill A | 96 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | James Madison | 96 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Stanford A | 97 | 10 |
| Anvit Watwani | UCLA C | UCLA D | 97 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Toronto E | Guelph B | 97 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Carleton | 97 | -5 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McMaster C | 97 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Toronto I | 97 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto Metropolitan | 97 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | UF B | 97 | 10 |
| Nico Pascual | MSU B | Pitt B | 97 | 10 |
| Aiden Shields | Clemson A | Virginia B | 97 | -5 |
| Joseph Cole | North Carolina B | North Carolina C | 97 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rutgers C | 97 | 10 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Kentucky | 97 | -5 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | MIT B | 97 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Oxford B | 97 | 10 |
| Derek Li | Cornell-DII | Binghamton B | 97 | -5 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCSB | 98 | 10 |
| Aryan Pathak | UF C | FIU | 98 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Clemson B | 98 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | VCU A | 98 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | UIC | 98 | -5 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Auburn B | 98 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton A | 98 | -5 |
| Roman Bassett | UF A | Melbourne A | 99 | 10 |
| Mohit Nair | CWRU D | Kenyon A | 99 | 10 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | Liberty C | 99 | 10 |
| John Shelly | Rowan A | Vassar A | 99 | -5 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | Truman State | 99 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Indiana B | 99 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Carleton | 99 | 10 |
| Blake Johnson | BC A | Brandeis Orlando | 99 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Imperial C | 99 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Cambridge C | 99 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | Tennessee B | 101 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Southampton B | 101 | 10 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Western Ontario | 102 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | Maryland B | 102 | -5 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame B | Illinois B | 102 | 10 |
| James Windle | Purdue C | Notre Dame D | 102 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Amherst B | 102 | 10 |
| Srikar Venkatesan | Penn A | George Mason B | 103 | 10 |
| Gavin Rittgers | South Carolina B | NC State | 105 | 10 |
| Raymond Ha | Chicago D | Notre Dame C | 107 | 10 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Columbia C | 108 | -5 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | Melbourne B | 109 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Notre Dame A | 110 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | BC B | 110 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Waterloo | 111 | -5 |
| Cori Zhong | Waterloo | Queen's B | 113 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | Clemson A | 113 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | North Carolina A | 113 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | George Mason A | 113 | 0 |
| Omer Korkmaz | Johns Hopkins B | George Washington B | 113 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Maryland D | 113 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Johns Hopkins C | 113 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | George Mason C | 113 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | George Washington A | 113 | 10 |
| Christopher Pawul | Columbia C | Lehigh B | 113 | 0 |
| Ezra Siegartel | Vassar A | Rowan A | 113 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Missouri A | 113 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Tufts B | 113 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Alabama B | 113 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Georgia Tech C | 113 | 10 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell-DII | 113 | 10 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | RIT B | 113 | 0 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | Rochester | 113 | 10 |