Round 10: Tossup 8

Maurice Ravel and Erik Satie inspired this composer’s song “Bolerish,” which opens his score for Brian De Palma’s Femme Fatale. During a recording session, Bernardo Bertolucci made the orchestra wait while forcing this composer to rewrite his score for The Sheltering Sky on the spot. A 2017 documentary subtitled Coda chronicles this composer’s anti-nuclear activism. (15[1])Alva Noto and The National’s Bryce Dessner often collaborated with this composer, who used the idea of scoring a nonexistent Tarkovsky film to conceptualize his album async. This composer used the instrumental of his song “Forbidden (*) Colours,” which was named after Yukio Mishima’s novel, as the theme for a war film starring David Bowie. This composer had just (10[1])a week to write his Oscar-winning score (10[1])for The Last Emperor. For 10 points, the scores for The Revenant and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence were composed by what late member of the Japanese band Yellow Magic Orchestra? ■END■

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