Question
This composer won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in Music for a piece for synthesized and processed synthesized sound that its composer said "depends on the absolute, not the seeming, length of events and sections." For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this composer of Time's Encomium, as well as an opera based on Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain. This composer's fractal-inspired music includes pieces such as Bamboula Squared.
ANSWER: Charles Peter Wuorinen
[10e] A two-minute electronic tape part features in Wuorinen's The Celestial Sphere, which is in this genre. Earlier pieces in this genre include Saul, Solomon, and one with the line “And he shall reign forever and ever.”
ANSWER: oratorio
[10m] Wuorinen was a finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer for his Microsymphony, commissioned by this orchestra. This member of the “Big Five” orchestras premiered Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances under longtime director Eugene Ormandy.
ANSWER: Philadelphia Orchestra
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