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This composer’s cello concerto ends with the soloist playing a glissando cadence to a low C, and incorporates two separate cadenzas in its third movement. After a quiet, layered horn chord, a symphony by this composer begins with an obsessive eighth-sixteenth rest-sixteenth ostinato in the violas; that B-flat minor symphony’s irregularly metered second movement is marked Presto con (-5[1])malizia. (10[1])While living in self-imposed exile on Ischia, this composer continually revised his setting of absurdist spoken poems by Edith Sitwell, (10[1])titled Façade. (10[4])This (10[1])composer’s Orb and Sceptre march was (10[1])written for the (10[1])coronation of Queen (10[1])Elizabeth II and (10[1])followed his earlier coronation march (10[1])Crown Imperial. (-5[1])After Lionel Tertis (10[1])rejected it, (10[1])Paul Hindemith (10[1]-5[1])premiered (10[1])this composer’s Viola Concerto. (10[1])For 10 points, name this British composer of the cantata Belshazzar’s Feast. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[5])

ANSWER: William Walton [or William Turner Walton]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2286%0%14%95.21

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Michael LiBrown ADuke A57-5
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AStanford A5810
Robert CondronChicago CCornell B7810
Raymond WangCornell AChicago A8010
Mitch McCullarIllinois AWUSTL B8010
Clark SmithOhio State AGeorgia Tech A8010
Tracy MirkinFlorida AMaryland A8010
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AHarvard A8110
Michael MaysImperial AVanderbilt A8710
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AToronto A9010
Noah SheidlowerColumbia AMIT A9310
Joel MilesMinnesota AIndiana A9610
Matthew SiffYale BClaremont A10110
Vinu HariharUC Berkeley BMichigan A103-5
Karan GurazadaTexas ANorth Carolina A10610
Jacob EgolDuke ABrown A10810
Daniel YangChicago BYale A110-5
Aum MundheRutgers AIowa State A11010
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BHouston A11110
Alex PijanowskiPurdue ANYU A11510
Arthur Delot-VilainYale AChicago B12710
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BFlorida B12810
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn ASouth Carolina A1280
Jack ObermanSouth Carolina APenn A1280
Jacob Van OorschotMcGill AVirginia A1280
Joseph ChambersVirginia AMcGill A1280
Todd MaslykMichigan AUC Berkeley B1280