Question
In a concerto for one of these musicians, orchestra members yawn, pop a soda can, and loudly exhale amidst onstage chatter between the second and third movements. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this type of musician. In Gabriel Prokofiev’s first concerto for this type of musician, the soloist samples the orchestra and showcases techniques such as scratching.
ANSWER: DJ [or disc jockey or turntablist] (Gabriel is Sergei Prokofiev’s grandson.)
[10m] Prokofiev includes a DJ playing an electronics part in his “remix” of this symphony’s finale. The opening cello recitative (“ret-chi-tuh-TEEF”) in this symphony’s finale paraphrases a similar melody from its composer’s “Tempest” Sonata.
ANSWER: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor [or Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony or Choral Symphony; accept Beethoven’s Opus 125 or BEETHOVEN9 Symphonic Remix]
[10h] This composer-DJ features DJs and classical musicians performing together in his club concert Mercury Soul. He sampled a Fermilab collider in a piece that he wrote as composer-in-residence of the Chicago Symphony.
ANSWER: Mason Bates [or Mason Wesley Bates; accept DJ Masonic] (The unnamed piece is Alternative Energy.)
<Jacob Egol, Classical Music and Opera>
Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 89% | 56% | 11% |
Data
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | BHSU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | I would prefer not to | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | remembrance of lost time | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Saint Peter Andre 3000 | The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| In Search of Things Past | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Canadians | Quasicrystal Silence | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Hang et al., Robert Browning | [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |