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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

HeardPPBE %M %H %
4415.9180%36%43%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Chattahoochee ANorthview B100010E
ExhibitionMidtown10101030EHM
Innovation BChattahoochee B10101030EHM
Johns CreekHoover10101030EHM
Lambert AInnovation A100010E
Northview ALambert B10101030EHM

Summary

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VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓623.33100%67%67%
Triangle Cup2026-03-13✓313.33100%33%0%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓316.6767%67%33%
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓412.5050%0%75%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓510.0060%0%40%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓310.0067%33%0%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓412.5075%25%25%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓313.33100%0%33%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓518.0080%40%60%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓820.0088%63%50%