Packet 5: Bonus 11
This aria titles a 2021 album by Isata Kanneh-Mason that includes a single version of Amy Beach’s “By the Still Waters.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this aria from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess about a season when “the livin’ is easy / fish are jumpin’ / and the cotton is high.”
ANSWER: “Summertime”
[10h] Kanneh-Mason’s album Summertime ends with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s reharmonized arrangement of a spiritual titled for this type of person. That spiritual, which ended the play version of Porgy and Bess, is narrated by one of these people “a long, long, way from home.”
ANSWER: a motherless child [or motherless children; accept “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”; prompt on children; prompt on orphans]
[10m] The first written arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” was performed by Fisk University’s choir named for this Biblically-derived word, which popularized spirituals in the North.
ANSWER: jubilee [accept Fisk Jubilee Singers]
<FW, Auditory Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-5
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 13.49 | 95% | 40% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞ | JHU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Mike and Psmith | Catholic University A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Penn State | Munir Siddiqui Fan Club | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Rosslyn Academic Team | UNC Charity | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png | Contessa Dora | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 60% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |