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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Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 67% | 17% | 17% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 7 | 18.57 | 86% | 57% | 43% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
Data
| Bard | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia C | NYU C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yale | Gatherer | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Princeton | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers | Lehigh A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |