Question
This composer’s Opus 41 Variations gives the swing treatment to The Rite of Spring’s opening bassoon theme. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Soviet composer with a 21st-century cult following whose 20 piano sonatas infuse classical forms with written-out jazz. A driving Toccatina in E minor is the third of his Eight Concert Études, Opus 40.
ANSWER: Nikolai Kapustin
[10e] This crossover “jazz concerto,” orchestrated by Grofé, was a hit when Paul Whiteman’s band premiered it at the Aeolian Hall concert “An Experiment in Modern Music” with the composer improvising at the piano.
ANSWER: Rhapsody in Blue
[10h] This Frenchman arranged Django’s Nuages, Piaf’s pop, and Gillespie’s A Night in Tunisia, where he was born, for classical guitar. He composed Tango en Skaï (“on sky”) and Hommage à Villa-Lobos, dedicated Libra Sonatina to his heart surgeon, and started his recitals with improvisations.
ANSWER: Roland Dyens (“ro-LAWN dee-YAWNCE”) (Skaï or “artificial hide” refers to him not being Argentinian to write a bona fide tango.)
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 11.33 | 67% | 40% | 7% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | Les Missourables | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BHSU B | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | Lisan al-Quib | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | We Need New Names | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| The Jeam Team | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | var merchants | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |