Question
Robert Spano leads an annual Academy for this discipline as part of Colorado’s Aspen Music Festival, which includes its own dedicated orchestra for this discipline. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this discipline whose practitioners use a baton to show musicians the ictus and tactus.
ANSWER: conducting
[10m] Several lucky conducting fellows train with the Big Five orchestra from this city each year at its summer festival, whose main venue is the Koussevitzky Shed. Another orchestra from this city was the first to perform Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture on July 4th.
ANSWER: Boston [accept Boston Symphony Orchestra; accept Boston Pops Orchestra]
[10h] This conductor created the Taki Concordia Fellowship to increase mentorship for female conductors. Joan Tower wrote her first Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman for this former music director of the Baltimore Symphony.
ANSWER: Marin Alsop (The Taki Concordia Fellowship is now called the Taki Alsop Fellowship.)
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 67% | 22% |
Data
| Cornell C | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Vassar | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn A | Rowan A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Haverford | Princeton A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Princeton B | Bard A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale C | Rutgers B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale B | Penn B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |