Question

Despite insisting it was not programmatic, this composer scored a three-movement “war symphony” for the New York Philharmonic to reels of goose-stepping soldiers and other battle footage. A piece by this composer features a recurring triple-stop chord with a low D, middle E, and high A spread across two octaves, whose (10[1])playability surprised Samuel Dushkin. (10[1])Each movement of this composer’s violin concerto opens with that “passport chord.” (10[1])This composer (10[1])used a 3-plus-3-plus-2 rhythm (-5[1])in the finale of one octet to adapt a khorovod, which he also used in another (10[1])work’s “Round Dance of the Princesses.” This composer wrote the Dumbarton Oaks Concerto during his Neoclassical (10[1])Period, when he also revised (10[1])a ballet in which Koschei (10[1])(“kuh-SHAY”) the Deathless dances an Infernal Dance. For 10 points, name this composer of The Firebird. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Igor Stravinsky [or Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky] (The first clue refers to his Symphony in Three Movements.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Richard NiuCornell CPrinceton B5010
Forrest WeintraubColumbia ARutgers B5410
Aum MundheRutgers ANYU B6610
Austin GuoPrinceton ABard A6810
Lydia TarekegnYale APenn B72-5
Vishal KanigicherlaPenn AHaverford8810
Andrew MinagarYale BRowan A10410
Thomas DoyleVassarYale C10910
Owen MimnoNYU AColumbia C11410
Srikar VenkatesanPenn BYale A13010

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