Question

A composer's time in this state inspired his piece Spirit Journeys, a solo percussion work that incorporates field recordings from its natural sites. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this state, which inspired a composer to write a Pulitzer Prize-winning piece calling for three spatially separated groups to play slow arpeggios emulating waves.
ANSWER: Alaska
[10e] That piece, Become Ocean, is by a composer with this surname whose music often evokes the landscapes of Alaska. Another composer with this surname wrote the three-act opera Nixon in China.
ANSWER: Adams [or John Coolidge Adams; or John Luther Adams]
[10m] Adams evokes the Alaskan landscape in The Wind in High Places, a piece in this genre. The Mishima-inspired third of these pieces by Philip Glass was performed by an ensemble named for Kronos.
ANSWER: string quartet
<Noah Sheidlower, Auditory Fine Arts>

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2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y417.50100%75%0%
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y215.00100%50%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y316.67100%67%0%
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y720.0086%86%29%
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y130.00100%100%100%
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2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y522.00100%100%20%

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SwarthmoreColumbia A0000
Cornell BJHU A10101030
Cornell AJHU B0101020
PIttNYU0101020
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UMD BUMD A0101020