Question

A woman supposedly experienced a full-body orgasm during a March 2023 performance of this composer’s 5th symphony, whose E minor “fate” theme transitions to E major in its last movement. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this composer who also included a “fate” motif represented by A flat in his 4th symphony, which was patronized by Nadezhda von Meck.
ANSWER: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
[10h] Unfortunately, this composer’s Concentric Paths didn’t receive the same reaction at the concert. This British composer of the opera Powder Her Face included a difficult high A in his opera The Exterminating Angel.
ANSWER: Thomas Adès (AH-des)
[10e] Musicians played through explosions in a 1941 performance of Tchaikovsky’s 5th in this city. Tchaikovsky’s“fate theme” may have inspired the “invasion theme” of a Shostakovich symphony named for the siege of this city.
ANSWER: Leningrad [or St. Petersburg; accept Leningrad Symphony]
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BardNYU B001010
Columbia BColumbia A0000
Columbia CNYU C0000
YaleGatherer1001020
PrincetonNYU A0101020
RutgersLehigh A001010