Round 11: Tossup 15

This composer befriended an author while the two worked on Alberto Cavalcanti’s films for the GPO Film Unit. A woman on the subway replaces Matt Dillon’s character as a cellist performing a piece by this composer in Yorgos Lanthimos’s short Nimic. This composer’s so-called “corpses” included Blow-Up star David Hemmings, to whom this composer never spoke again after Hemmings’s voice broke as a boy soprano. Music from an opera by this composer is featured throughout Claire (*) Denis’s (“duh-NEE’s”) film Beau Travail (“boh trah-VYE”), because they are based on the same (10[1])novel. (10[1])In a 2012 film, a performance of an opera by this composer is interrupted by a hurricane. This composer’s style inspired Alexandre Desplat’s (“day-PLAH’s”) score for Moonrise Kingdom, which was itself inspired by Wes Anderson’s childhood performance in his opera Noye’s Fludde (“noy’s flood”). For 10 points, an educational film commission resulted in what composer’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra? ■END■ (10[1])

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