Question
The only person to stay for the entirety of this piece’s premiere, Karl Schenzer, later appeared on the game show I’ve Got A Secret with Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this piano piece that premiered in Manhattan in 1963, many years after it was composed. This piece’s single-page manuscript is full of double flats and double sharps and is marked Très lent.
ANSWER: Vexations (by Erik Satie)
[10e] This composer rediscovered Satie's Vexations at Black Mountain College and organized a team of pianists to play its 840 repetitions at its premiere. That team included David Tudor, who premiered this composer's 4’33” (“four-thirty-three”).
ANSWER: John Cage
[10m] Joshua Rifkin, an alternate pianist for the Vexations premiere, revived this other composer’s reputation with a landmark 1970 Nonesuch recording of three of his pieces. This composer’s music was used for the theme of the 1973 film The Sting.
ANSWER: Scott Joplin
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 83% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
Data
| Chicago A | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Purdue B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois Blue | SIUE | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois Orange | Notre Dame | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |