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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