Question
John Cage’s work Sonnekus2 (“sohn-eh-kuss squared”) instructs the performer to take long pauses during which she can sing cabaret songs by this composer. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this French composer of “Je te veux (“zheh te voo”)” and “La Diva de l’Empire (“lem-peer”)”, who later renounced his cabaret compositions. He is better known for his Gymnopédies (“zhim-noh-peh-dee”).
ANSWER: Erik Satie (“sah-tee”) [or Eric Alfred Leslie Satie]
[10h] Satie wrote this cycle of 21 short piano pieces intermingled with prose poems, which begins with an “Unappetizing Chorale.” It includes movements like “Golf” and “Tennis.”
ANSWER: Sports et divertissements (“spor eh dee-ver-tees-mah”) [or Sports and Pastimes]
[10m] The penultimate movement of Sports et divertissements depicts these things. A show of these things is depicted in the last of Debussy’s (“deh-boo-see’s”) preludes by a banging left hand coupled with extremely rapid notes in the right hand.
ANSWER: fireworks [or feux d’artifice]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Georgia Tech A | Cornell A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |