Question
One of these performers initiates a quick ascending trumpet line by invoking a “Reveille when it still was dark” in a piece that concludes with a choir singing the Shema. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of soloist that performs with an orchestra in A Survivor from Warsaw.
ANSWER: narrator [or reciter or speaker or talker; accept Sprechstimme performer or Sprechgesang performer; accept speak singer or spoken voice accept descriptions ofanswers indicating someone speaking or reading or reciting a text; prompt on vocalists; reject “singer” or “singing”]
[10e] This composer called for a less melodic narration style in A Survivor from Warsaw than he did decades earlier in his Pierrot Lunaire.
ANSWER: Arnold Schoenberg [or Arthur Schönberg]
[10h] Schoenberg set a reciter against a string quartet and pianist in this late chamber piece that sets a Lord Byron poem. In this piece, the theme from Beethoven’s Fifth and the Marseillaise play simultaneously as the reciter mentions “the earthquake voice of victory.”
ANSWER: Ode to Napoleon [or Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte; or Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte for String Quartet, Piano and Reciter; or Op. 41]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 21 | 11.90 | 95% | 19% | 5% |
Data
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont A | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida A | Ohio State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| MIT A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers B | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida B | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Duke A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell B | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Houston A | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |