Question
Answer the following about Cuban-American composer Tania León, who won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Music. For 10 points each:
[10e] León composed a cross-cultural work for Indigenous players of these instruments and orchestra premiered by the Miami Light Project. In Afro-Cuban ensembles, these instruments include the cajon, timbales, and bongos.
ANSWER: drums [or percussion]
[10h] León's Pulitzer-winning piece, Stride, was inspired by her grandmother and this woman. Gertrude Stein wrote the libretto to an opera about this woman's life by Virgil Thomson titled The Mother of Us All.
ANSWER: Susan B. Anthony
[10m] León’s Caribbean-inspired piece Horizons was written for this country’s NDR Symphony Orchestra. Kirill Petrenko is the principal conductor of an orchestra in this country led from 2002 to 2018 by Simon Rattle.
ANSWER: Germany [or Federal Republic of Germany; or Deutschland] (the orchestra is the Berlin Philharmonic)
<Noah Sheidlower, Auditory Fine Arts>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia B | UMD B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | RIT | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia A | JHU A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU | Swarthmore | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Pitt | UMD A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |