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Composer and genre required. A melody from the second of these pieces was reworked into a song whose speaker asks a lover to visit “before the thrush sings in the wood,” which sets a poem by Hermann Lingg and is the second of its composer’s Opus 105, his Five Songs. The second of these pieces opens with an unaccompanied French horn call, (10[1])and has a heavy second-movement scherzo that its (10[1])composer ironically called a “tiny wisp.” (10[2])Before a performance (10[1])of the first of these pieces, (10[1])the question “who is the boss: (10[1])the soloist or the conductor?” was (10[1])posed (10[1])by (10[2])Leonard Bernstein, referring to the slow tempo choice (-5[2])of Glenn Gould. (-5[1])These two pieces are in D minor (-5[1])and B-flat (10[1])major, and were written with encouragement from the composer’s mentor Clara Schumann. For 10 points, name these pieces for keyboard and orchestra by the composer of A German Requiem. ■END■ (10[8])

ANSWER: piano concertos by Johannes Brahms [prompt on concertos or concerti in place of “piano concertos”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Raymond WangCornell ABerkeley A6110
Kevin ParkClaremont CollegesIllinois6910
Chris SimsNorthwesternPurdue7510
Matt JacksonChicago ATexas7510
Sky LiToronto ABerkeley B7810
Shardul RaoMinnesota AOttawa8410
Matthew LehmannWUSTL ANYU9010
Caleb KendrickMarylandYale B9610
Aidan FeinVanderbiltStanford9710
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AIowa State9810
Jared HeWaterlooToronto B9810
Jeremy CummingsWUSTL BCornell B106-5
Denis LiuArizona StateSouth Carolina106-5
Robert CondronChicago BMinnesota B109-5
David BassJohns HopkinsRutgers116-5
Forrest WeintraubColumbia AChicago C11810
Todd MaslykMichiganChicago D14810
Karthik PrasadCornell BWUSTL B14810
Tiffany ZhouFloridaKentucky14810
Jeffrey FungHarvardDuke14810
Aum MundheRutgersJohns Hopkins14810
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BChicago B14810
Andrew HannaPennTruman State14810
Matthew SiffYale AGeorgia Tech14810