Packet 7: Bonus 13
Answer the following about Joseph Stalin’s taste in music, for 10 points each:
[10e] Stalin died of a hemorrhage while listening to Maria Yudina’s recording of a piece in this genre. Sergei Prokofiev wrote five of these pieces for a solo keyboard instrument and orchestra.
ANSWER: piano concertos [or piano concerti; prompt on concertos or concerti by asking “for what instrument?”]
[10h] Stalin opposed this opera, which was dubbed “coarse, primitive, and vulgar” in the Pravda article “Muddle Instead of Music.” In this opera, Katerina is sent to Siberia when it is discovered she fed her husband Zinoviy poisoned mushrooms.
ANSWER: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District [or Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk or Ledi Makbet Mtsenskovo uyezda]
[10m] The initially Stalinist Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians included this composer of the ballet Spartacus. Repeated F-sharp eighth notes on the xylophone represent clashing swords in a section of this composer’s ballet Gayane (“guy-uh-NEH”).
ANSWER: Aram Khachaturian [or Aram Ilyich Khachaturian]
<Fine Arts - Auditory, Spencer Manning> | VAULT II Packet 07
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 15.91 | 80% | 36% | 43% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge | Southperial | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Oxford | Birmingham A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EH |
| Southampton | Birmingham B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Warperial | Bath | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 50% | 0% | 75% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 0% | 40% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 25% | 25% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 40% | 60% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 20.00 | 88% | 63% | 50% |