Question
With flutist Claire Chase, this musician premiered Felipe (“fay-LEE-pee”) Lara’s Double Concerto. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this bassist who recorded numerous Brazilian standards on albums such as her self-titled and Radio Music Society. This musician covered songs by the Beatles and Michael Jackson on a 2024 album with Milton Nascimento (“mew-TONE nuh-see-MANE-too”).
ANSWER: esperanza spalding [or Esperanza Emily Spalding]
[10e] Nascimento and Lô Borges (“LOW BOR-jeez”) play this instrument on their landmark album Clube da Esquina (“KLOO-bee duh es-KEE-nuh”). Villa-Lobos (“VEE-luh-LOH-booss”) composed a series of etudes for this instrument, whose classical variety has six strings made of gut or nylon.
ANSWER: guitar
[10m] Villa-Lobos also wrote many pieces for ensembles of this instrument, such as the first and fifth of his Bachianas Brasileiras (“bah-kee-UH-nuhz brah-zee-LAY-ruhs”), which call for eight of them. A player of this instrument popularized the Catalan folk song “Song of the Birds.”
ANSWER: cello [or violoncello] (The unnamed cellist is Pablo Casals.)
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 20% | 40% |
Data
| Waterloo Basic | Waterloo Aspidistra | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |