Question

Jessie Montgomery’s “reimagining” of an opera by this composer with a revised libretto premiered at Toronto’s 2023 Luminato Festival. An overture by this composer begins with winds playing the syncopated melody “B-flat, G F high F, D C, B-flat” over staccato eighth-note chords. A men's chorus sings melismas on “oo-ar” in this composer's “Frolic of the Bears.” An opera by this composer ends after a village forgives Cepheus and Luddud and celebrates in “A Real Slow Drag.” In 1976, the Houston Grand Opera premiered (*) Gunther Schuller’s reconstruction of an opera by this composer. This composer’s lost opera A Guest of Honor (10[1])depicted (10[2])Booker T. Washington’s visit to the White House. The conjurer Zodzetrick wishes to throw the title girl (10[1])of an opera by this composer into a wasps’ nest but is foiled by Remus. For 10 points, name this composer of Treemonisha, often dubbed a (10[1])“ragtime opera.” ■END■

ANSWER: Scott Joplin
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jared HeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up10010
Kais JessaCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken10110
Benjamin ChapmanSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange10110
Joey SunModerator Can't Neg me While in Alphaas rational as the square root of two power bottoms11810
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers14410

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%33%0%93.00
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025Y3100%33%0%106.33
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025Y3100%33%33%104.67
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%0%0%112.80
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%33%33%108.33
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y6100%0%0%98.83
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%0%33%129.33