Question
This composer’s First Piano Concerto begins with the soloist playing very low menacing B’s, over which the timpani plays its own sequence of crescendoing B’s. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this composer whose Second Piano Concerto’s slow movement includes an outer Adagio for piano, muted strings, and timpani, which is interrupted by a dizzying Presto in which the winds join.
ANSWER: Béla Bartók [or Béla Viktor János Bartók]
[10e] This phenomenon names a style of spooky ambient music in the slow sections of Bartók’s piano concertos. John Field developed a Romantic genre titled for this period.
ANSWER: night [accept night music; accept nocturne; reject “darkness” or equivalents]
[10m] Valery Gergiev directed this orchestra through 2015, including during Yefim Bronfman’s bloody performance of Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto. In 2023, this orchestra’s then-music director Simon Rattle announced his sudden return to Germany.
ANSWER: London Symphony Orchestra [or LSO; prompt on London]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 22 | 14.09 | 96% | 41% | 5% |
Data
| Brown | Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Ottawa | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Illinois | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | NYU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard | McGill | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago D | South Carolina | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Northwestern | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Arizona State | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Florida | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | Waterloo | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |