Question
At the morendo end of this concerto’s second movement, the soloist plays a descending G major pentatonic scale in a series of harmonics. This piece’s final movement opens with low strings playing F-sharps before a trio of horns introduce the jaunty, triplet-laden main theme. The descending melody, “long high F-sharp, E D B, D A” begin the lyrical second theme of this concerto’s first movement. The soloist enters in major on the notes “long B, C-sharp D-sharp (*) B” in this piece, which was inspired by Victor Herbert’s second piece in the same genre. This concerto quotes its composer’s song “Leave Me Alone” in its third movement. When this concerto’s intended player, Hanuš Wihan (“HAWN-oosh WEE-hawn”), was unable to make the premiere, a gift of two rare pigeons helped Leo Stern become his replacement. For 10 points, name this B minor concerto for a low string soloist written by a Czech composer. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 86 | -5 |
Tony Chen | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 95 | -5 |
Jared He | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 147 | 10 |
Kais Jessa | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 148 | 10 |
Micah Colman | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 149 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 149 | 0 |
Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 149 | 0 |
Asha Basu | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 149 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 80.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 148.25 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 119.60 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 129.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.00 |