Question
A symphony by this composer opens with a short brass fanfare before a choir outlines the striking chord change "B-flat minor to D major." This composer adapted a song whose Phrygian ("FRIDGE-ian") melody begins "E, G, G, long G" in a piece for double string orchestra with string quartet. This composer's seventh symphony, which uses a wind machine and wordless SSA chorus, adapts a score he wrote for a film about an (*) Antarctic voyage. A piece for strings by this composer adapts the 16th-century song "Why fum'th in fight." The lyric "behold, the sea itself" begins this composer's first symphony, which sets Whitman's Leaves of Grass. For 10 points, name this English composer of A Sea Symphony and Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis. ■END■
ANSWER: Ralph ("RAFE") Vaughan Williams
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 12 | 92% | 33% | 0% | 76.00 |