Question
After Columbia University’s first music professor resigned, got run over, and went mad, his wife Marian raised funds to keep this woodland residency going for five decades. For 10 points each:
[10h] What artists’ colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, is named for a Romantic composer promoted by over 400 women’s clubs in turn-of-the-20th-century America? A summer retreat here by its namesake composer inspired ten short piano pieces.
ANSWER: MacDowell [or MacDowell Colony; accept Edward MacDowell; accept MacDowell Clubs] (Woodland Sketches was composed here.)
[10e] Edward MacDowell led New York City’s glee club chapter named in honor of this composer of sacred choral music like the Lobgesang (“LOBE-guh-zong”) symphony-cantata and the Bach-influenced oratorios St. Paul and Elijah.
ANSWER: Felix Mendelssohn [accept Mendelssohn Glee Club] (The club held benefit concerts for MacDowell Colony after his death.)
[10m] Yonkers, New York, hosts the last extant club named for this composer of a D major flute concertino. Women founded clubs and flocked to hear charming salon music like “Scarf Dance” when this French pianist toured America.
ANSWER: Cécile Chaminade [accept Chaminade Music Club]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Data
| BHSU B | LMM's LLM MLM | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |