Walter Piston - 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)

Question

This composer’s ballet The Incredible Flutist opens with a piercing oboe solo. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this American composer who also wrote books on music theory. He composed 8 symphonies and Fugue on a Victory Tune.

ANSWER: Walter Piston

[10e] Piston collaborated with this composer, a fellow student of Nadia Boulanger, to write broadcast works for CBS. This composer also wrote Appalachian Spring.

ANSWER: Aaron Copland

[10m] Piston and Copland both composed notable concertos for this instrument. The Ebony Concerto was composed for Woody Herman, a player of this instrument.

ANSWER: clarinet

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Summary


2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)	02/23/2024	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)	03/09/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)	03/02/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)	03/02/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	0%	100%
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)	03/09/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)	02/23/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%

Data


MTSU	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
MTSU	Claremont	0	10	0	10
MTSU	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
MTSU	Claremont	0	10	0	10
Belmont	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
MTSU	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
MTSU	Claremont	0	10	10	20
MTSU	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
MTSU	Claremont	0	10	10	20
WUSTL	USN A	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt B	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10	20