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. (15[4])Players are instructed (15[1])to switch to bass drum and flexatone before returning to this instrument 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
Max EspensenOld London TownBetrayed by Rita Izzatdust3615
Michael KohnFoucault's Penndulum10 Negs that Shook the Quiz3615
Matt BoothFour Neg OmeletteEdinburgh3615
Sam FooTabearnacleBroken Hearts3615
Michael Mays3HK1MMScottish, Irish, Both or Neither3915

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