strings - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Krzysztof Penderecki (“k’SHISH-toff pen-deh-RET-skee”) wrote for 48-piece and 52-piece ensembles of these instruments in his pieces Polymorphia and Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima. For 10 points each:

[10e] Samuel Barber adapted the slow movement of a B-flat minor chamber piece into an Adagio for what section of the orchestra?

ANSWER: strings [or string instruments; accept string orchestra; accept Adagio for Strings]

[10h] The third movement of this composer’s 1948 Concerto for String Orchestra, her most performed piece, is characteristically marked Vivo. This composer and violinist was nicknamed “The First Lady of Polish Music.”

ANSWER: Grażyna Bacewicz (“grah-ZHEE-nah bat-SEV-eech”) [or Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka]

[10m] Critics applied this stylistic label to most of Bacewicz’s music, although she rejected it. Igor Stravinsky’s works in this style include a Concerto in D for string orchestra, his violin concerto, and the Symphony of Psalms.

ANSWER: neoclassical [or neoclassicism; accept neoclassical period]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	12.22	89%	22%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	9	10.00	78%	22%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	12.86	86%	43%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	15.00	83%	67%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%

Data


Stanford B	Stanford A	10	0	10	20
Berkeley B	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	10	0	0	10
UCLA A	UCSD B	10	0	0	10
UC Santa Barbara	UCLA B	10	0	10	20
UCSD A	UC Irvine	10	0	0	10
Arizona State	UCSD C	10	0	0	10
Central Florida C	Central Florida B	10	0	0	10
Florida A	Florida B	10	0	0	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan A	10	0	10	20
Ohio State B	Michigan C	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan B	10	0	10	20
Michigan State	Ohio State C	10	0	0	10
Central Florida A	Florida C	10	0	0	10
James Madison A	NC State B	10	0	0	10
James Madison B	Duke	10	0	10	20
Virginia	North Carolina B	10	0	10	20
Liberty C	Wake Forest	10	0	0	10
William and Mary	NC State A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Liberty A	10	0	0	10
Chicago B	Northwestern B	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago C	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago D	10	0	10	20
Chicago E	Northwestern D	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Illinois B	10	0	10	20
Indiana C	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
Northwestern C	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10
Indiana A	Purdue A	10	0	0	10
Purdue B	Illinois C	10	0	0	10
North Carolina A	Liberty B	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina B	10	0	0	10
North Carolina C	VCU	10	0	0	10
MIT	Bowdoin A	10	0	10	20
Harvard A	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis B	Brandeis A	10	0	0	10
Southern Connecticut State	Brown	10	0	10	20
Harvard B	Dartmouth A	10	0	0	10
Yale	Dartmouth B	10	0	0	10
Carleton College	Iowa State	10	0	0	10
Missouri A	Claremont	10	0	10	20
Minnesota A	Washington A	10	10	0	20
Washington B	Missouri B	10	0	10	20
Texas A	Texas A&M A	10	0	10	20
Murray State A	Texas B	10	0	0	10
Bruin	Tennessee B	10	0	10	20
Tennessee A	Alabama B	0	0	0	0
Mississipi State	Alabama A	10	0	0	10
WashU A	Sewanee	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Louisville B	10	0	0	10
Oxford C	Birmingham	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Southampton B	10	0	10	20
Cardiff	Edinburgh A	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	Montpellier	10	0	0	10
Southampton A	Warwick A	10	0	10	20
Manchester	Warwick B	10	0	10	20
Columbia A	Catholic	10	0	10	20
John Jay	Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Rutgers A	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	0	10
Swarthmore	Maryland B	10	0	0	10
NYU A	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	NYU C	10	0	10	20
Maryland C	Rutgers B	10	0	0	10
Georgetown	Vassar	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	10	0	0	10
WashU B	Louisville A	10	0	10	20
Penn State	Binghamton B	10	0	10	20
Cornell C	Cornell B	10	0	0	10
Binghamton A	RIT	0	0	0	0
Cornell A	Rochester	10	0	0	10