Tossup

Tranquillo (“tran-KWEE-loh”) E-flat and bass clarinets accompany trilling flutes to open a section of this piece that depicts a round dance. In the final note of this piece, double basses play a chord whose notes spell out the word DEAD. Eleven timpani strikes lead into a section of this piece depicting a “Glorification of the Chosen One.” An unusually high bassoon solo begins this piece’s first part, “Adoration of the Earth,” which prompted Camille Saint-Saëns (“san-SON”) to remark (10[1])“if that’s (-5[1])a bassoon, I’m a baboon!” A girl dances (10[1])herself to death in this ballet’s final “Sacrificial Dance.” For 10 points, Igor Stravinsky wrote music for what ballet about pagan Russia, which caused a riot at its 1913 premiere? ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: The Rite of Spring [or Le sacre du printemps; or Vesna svyashchennaya]
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Summary

TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
UK (North)UK5100%20%64.60
UK (South)UK863%38%66.80
Northern CaliforniaUS4100%0%69.50
Southern CaliforniaUS7100%43%85.00
Eastern Canada (1)US5100%40%100.20
Eastern Canada (2)US989%22%86.38
FloridaUS367%33%80.00
Great LakesUS1191%27%65.20
Lower Mid-AtlanticUS989%33%78.88
Upper Mid-AtlanticUS1100%0%71.00
Upper Mid-AtlanticUS989%22%75.50
Upper Mid-AtlanticUS250%50%69.00
MidwestUS9100%11%71.11
NorthUS4100%0%75.75
NortheastUS1100%0%57.00
PacificUS888%25%77.57
SoutheastUS1283%8%76.30
Upstate NYUS5100%0%73.80