Question
This composer and conductor was an early champion of the music of the Swiss composer Joachim Raff. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this composer who collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock to write the soundtracks for the films North by Northwest and Vertigo.
ANSWER: Bernard Herrmann [or Maximillian Herman]
[10h] Herrmann wrote his berceuse (“bair-SUZ”) For the Fallen for the American Symphony Orchestra and this conductor, who founded the orchestra. This conductor earlier used free bowing to create the “Philadelphia sound.”
ANSWER: Leopold Stokowski (“stoh-KOFF-skee”) [or Leopold Anthony Stokowski]
[10e] Herrmann’s suite from Psycho is often performed by ensembles made up of players of this family of instruments, who sit closest to the conductor in standard orchestral seating.
ANSWER: strings [accept violin family; accept bowed string family; accept string section]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 20 | 20.00 | 90% | 65% | 45% |
Data
| Claremont A | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell A | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL A | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Iowa State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago C | MIT A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue A | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida A | South Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Virginia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn State A | Florida B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Houston A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford A | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Duke A | Michigan A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley B | McGill A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |