Question

A symphony by a composer with this first name includes the movement Red Cape Tango and a narrative read by Jack Larson. That composer with this first name wrote the tuba concerto Reflections on the Mississippi and the Metropolis Symphony. A composer with this first name wrote an opera in which Hermes guides the title King Priam to Achilles’s tent. A neurologist investigates a singer’s visual agnosia in an opera by a composer with this first name, (*) The Man Who Mistook (10[1])His Wife for a Hat. Five spirituals are included in a Kristallnacht-inspired (-5[1])oratorio by a composer with this first name, (-5[1])A Child of Our Time. The composer of the musical A Strange Loop and a singer who quoted Beethoven’s 9th on the (0[1])album Dangerous have this first name. For 10 points, composers with the surnames Daugherty, Nyman, and Tippett share what first name with the singer of “Thriller”? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Michael [or Michael Tippett; or Michael Nyman; or Michael Daugherty; or Michael Jackson; or Michael R. Jackson]
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Conor ThompsonTunks et al.Houston Junior College92-5
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Jonathan LauCleo: 5/7 movieWilliams et al.1220
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