Bonus

This critic’s book, Listen to This, takes its title from his article that begins, “I hate ‘classical music’: not the thing but the name.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this man music critic for The New Yorker. His blog shares a title with his book about the history of 20th-century classical music, The Rest Is Noise.
ANSWER: Alex Ross
[10h] Ross claims that a book by this author contains “the most startling forty-five-page history of music ever written.” That book by this author explains instruments he created, including cloud-chamber bowls and a diamond marimba, which has 11-limit tuning.
ANSWER: Harry Partch (That book is Genesis of a Music.)
[10e] Ross’s article “Song of the Earth” is an exploration of the “arctic sound” of a composer with this last name. A different American composer with this last name wrote the operas Doctor Atomic and Nixon in China.
ANSWER: Adams [accept John Luther Adams; accept John Coolidge Adams]
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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StateToronto A001010E
British ColumbiaWUSTL B1001020ME
Chicago AColumbia A0101020HE
Chicago BToronto C001010E
FloridaWUSTL A001010E
Georgia StateNorthwestern001010E
Georgia TechTexas001010E
Illinois ANYU1001020ME
IndianaMIT0101020HE
Iowa StateIllinois B001010E
Johns HopkinsStanford1001020ME
LSEMaryland001010E
Ohio StateVirginia Tech001010E
OttawaHarvard1001020ME
RutgersRIT1001020ME
Toronto BMichigan001010E
UC Berkeley ANorth Carolina B1001020ME
UC Berkeley BUCF001010E
VanderbiltWaterloo A001010E
VirginiaPenn State001010E
Winona StateMinnesota10101030MHE

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2114.76100%33%14%