Question
This composer’s five attempts to win the Prix (“pree”) de Rome caused a scandal which forced Théodore Dubois to retire. Inspired by Aloysius Bertrand’s prose poems, this composer included the movements “Ondine” (“on-DEEN”) and “Scarbo” in a piano suite intended to surpass the difficulty of Balakirev’s Islamey. Ida Rubinstein commissioned a piece by this composer, which uses the melody (read slowly) “high C (pause) B C D C B A C.” This composer of the suite Gaspar de la Nuit (“nwee”) wrote a repetitive, triplet-heavy ostinato for snare drums in a piece which insistently repeats its melody until it reaches a fortissimo finish. For 10 points, which 20th-century French composer wrote Boléro? ■END■
ANSWER: Maurice Ravel [or Joseph Maurice Ravel]
<Classical Music>
= Average correct buzz position
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jason Qin (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | Columbia B | 32 | 10 |
Andy Yu (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | Penn B (DII) | 32 | 10 |
Arthur Zhang (DII) | NYU A (UG) | Penn A (DII) | 32 | 10 |
Lucas Shedlock (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | Lehigh A (UG) | 74 | 10 |
John Shelly (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | 82 | 10 |
Greta Hong (DII) | Bard A (UG) | Rutgers B | 87 | 10 |
Rohit Chintala (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | NYU B | 90 | 10 |
Saif Virani (UG) | Fordham A | Rutgers A (UG) | 106 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 0% | 84.20 |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 57.13 |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 82.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 11 | 91% | 0% | 9% | 85.60 |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 88.00 |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 39.80 |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 66.88 |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 63.00 |