Question
This piece was commissioned alongside works like Michael Tippett’s King Priam after the destruction of Coventry Cathedral in a bombing raid. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this work whose premiere at the reconstructed cathedral launched a tradition of using a second conductor to manage the chamber orchestra. The text of this piece interweaves nine poems by Wilfred Owen.
ANSWER: War Requiem, Op. 66
[10e] This English composer of the War Requiem also collected a set of Four Sea Interludes from his opera Peter Grimes.
ANSWER: Benjamin Britten [or Edward Benjamin Britten]
[10h] In the War Requiem, this kind of ensemble performs from offstage accompanied by a portable organ. Britten’s Missa brevis is scored for this ensemble and organ.
ANSWER: boys’ choir [accept children’s choir or treble choir; accept chorus in place of “choir”; prompt on choir or chorus; reject “male choir” or “male chorus”]
<MY, Classical Music>
Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 100% | 17% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 33% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 83% | 33% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 78% | 56% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
Data
| John Jay College | Vassar A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Maryland B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU B | Haverford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | Columbia C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| George Washington A | Penn B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia B | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Haverford A | George Washington B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |