Question

Yu Long conducted the premiere of a concerto for this instrument paired with a double timpani concerto by Philip Glass. Eric Whitacre wrote his The River Cam for a player of this instrument named Julian Lloyd Webber. (-5[1])Players (15[1])are instructed to switch to bass drum and flexatone (15[1])before returning to this (15[1])instrument (15[2])in Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticle of the Sun. A movement titled ■END■

ANSWER: cello [or violincello]
<Noah Sheidlower, Auditory Fine Arts>
= Average correct buzz position

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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jasmine BaoSwarthmoreJHU A36-5
Raymond WangCornell APitt3715
Richard NiuCornell BRIT4615
Owen MimnoNYURutgers5015
Jason QinColubmia BUMD A5115
Forrest WeintraubColumbia AJohn Jay5115
Patrick TorreUMD BJHU B11110
David BassJHU ASwarthmore12910

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%67%0%51.00
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y7100%71%14%67.86
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%50%0%61.50
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y3100%0%0%127.00
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y5100%100%0%36.60
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y4100%25%25%98.50
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y3100%67%0%74.00
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y2100%0%0%122.50