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 BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 14.29 | 100% | 29% | 14% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
Data
| Squidward Community College | WashU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |