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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