Ned Rorem - Exam
A) 1945 B) 1973 C) 1923 D) 1960
A) Architect B) Composer C) Painter D) Athlete
A) Richmond, Indiana B) Detroit, Michigan C) New York City, New York D) San Francisco, California
A) France B) Brazil C) Russia D) Japan
A) Spanish B) German C) Italian D) French
A) Architects B) Poets C) Chefs D) Sculptors
A) The London Chronicles B) The Paris Diary C) The New York Cookbook D) The Tokyo Journal
A) Juilliard School B) Sorbonne University C) Oxford University D) Yale University
A) Leonard Bernstein B) Gustavo Dudamel C) Herbert von Karajan D) Arturo Toscanini
A) His art songs, which number over 500. B) His film scores, which are critically acclaimed. C) His operas, which are widely performed. D) His symphonies, which have won numerous awards.
A) Expressionist. B) Modernist. C) Minimalist. D) Neoromantic.
A) Nuta Rothschild and Belle Tannenbaum. B) Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud. C) Margaret Bonds and Leo Sowerby. D) Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson.
A) Ned Rorem. B) Leo Sowerby. C) Margaret Bonds. D) Clarence Rufus Rorem.
A) Marie-Laure de Noailles. B) James Holmes. C) Paul Goodman. D) Rosemary.
A) The American Conservatory of Music. B) The Paris Conservatory. C) The Curtis Institute. D) The University of Chicago.
A) Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra. B) Seven different commissions for the American Bicentennial. C) Our Town. D) Evidence of Things Not Seen.
A) The Academy Award for Best Original Score. B) The Tony Award for Best Original Score. C) The Grammy Award for Best Classical Composition. D) The Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1976.
A) Evidence of Things Not Seen. B) Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra. C) Seven different commissions for the American Bicentennial. D) The opera Our Town.
A) Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. B) Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. C) Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud. D) Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel.
A) Upper middle-class, semi-bohemian with a strong Quaker emphasis. B) Upper-class with a strong Catholic emphasis. C) Middle-class with a strong Protestant emphasis. D) Working-class with a strong Jewish emphasis.
A) The Curtis Institute. B) The American Conservatory of Music. C) The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. D) The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
A) Nuta Rothschild. B) Belle Tannenbaum. C) Leo Sowerby. D) Margaret Bonds.
A) Edvard Grieg. B) Maurice Ravel. C) Igor Stravinsky. D) Claude Debussy.
A) Margaret Bonds. B) Belle Tannenbaum. C) Marie-Laure de Noailles. D) Nuta Rothschild.
A) The Quakers. B) The American Bicentennial. C) The Impressionists. D) Les Six.
A) 30 texts by 50 writers. B) 36 texts by 24 writers. C) 50 texts by 30 writers. D) 24 texts by 36 writers.
A) Jewish. B) Quaker atheist. C) Catholic. D) Protestant.
A) The Paris Conservatory. B) The Curtis Institute. C) The American Conservatory of Music. D) The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
A) Paul Goodman. B) Nuta Rothschild. C) Leo Sowerby. D) Margaret Bonds.
A) The Impressionist movement. B) The modernist aesthetic. C) Antiwar movements and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). D) The American Bicentennial.
A) Bernard Wagenaar B) Rosario Scalero C) Alfred Nolte D) Gian Carlo Menotti
A) Alfred Nolte B) Bernard Wagenaar C) Gian Carlo Menotti D) Harold Van Horne
A) Mishel Piastro B) Aaron Copland C) Virgil Thomson D) Leonard Bernstein
A) 1940 B) 1946 C) 1942 D) 1943
A) Bernard Wagenaar B) Alfred Nolte C) Rosario Scalero D) Gian Carlo Menotti
A) Overture in C B) The 70th Psalm C) The Lordly Hudson D) Piano Sonata for Four Hands
A) He wanted to study at Juilliard B) He moved to New York C) He considered Rosario Scalero unprogressive D) He lost his allowance
A) Rosario Scalero B) Bernard Wagenaar C) Alfred Nolte D) Gian Carlo Menotti
A) Anna Pavlova B) Martha Graham C) Isadora Duncan D) Éva Gauthier
A) Boston Symphony Orchestra B) Cleveland Orchestra C) Philadelphia Orchestra D) New York Philharmonic
A) Narcotics Anonymous B) Alcoholics Anonymous C) Gamblers Anonymous D) Overeaters Anonymous
A) 1950 B) 1952 C) 1949 D) 1951
A) Bertha B) Fables C) Hearing D) Three Sisters who are Not Sisters
A) Miss Julie B) Bertha C) The Robbers D) Our Town
A) 1951 B) 1953 C) 1954 D) 1955
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne B) W. B. Yeats C) George Darley D) Robert Herrick
A) Aaron Copland B) Thomas Schippers C) Leonard Bernstein D) Gustav Mahler
A) Symphony No. 3 B) Miss Julie C) Eagles D) Poems of Love and Rain
A) Johann Sebastian Bach B) Ludwig van Beethoven C) Francis Poulenc D) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A) German B) Italian C) French D) Other languages
A) The Robbers B) The Anniversary C) Fables D) Bertha
A) 1950 B) 1955 C) 1951 D) 1953
A) It was performed in 1961. B) It was written by Kenneth Koch. C) It was based on a Chaucer tale. D) It was based on the serialist tone row.
A) 110 B) 85 C) 75 D) 99
A) Gary Graffman B) Yo-Yo Ma C) Leonard Bernstein D) Mstislav Rostropovich
A) The Emperor of Ice-Cream B) Sunday Morning C) Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird D) The Idea of Order at Key West
A) Spain B) Morocco C) Germany D) Italy
A) The end of World War II B) The fall of the Berlin Wall C) The Vietnam War D) The September 11 attacks
A) Jonathan Sternberg B) Nadia Boulanger C) Julius Katchen D) Arthur Honegger
A) Fables B) Hearing C) The Anniversary D) The Robbers
A) 1960 to 1962 B) 1959 to 1960 C) 1965 to 1967 D) 1957 to 1958
A) Symphony No. 3 B) The Poet's Requiem C) Ballet for Jerry D) Piano Sonata No. 2
A) Extended B) Elaborate C) Condensed D) Fragmented
A) 1955 B) 1960 C) 1965 D) 1957 or 1958
A) They lead to sterility B) They are essential for growth C) They are unnecessary D) They enhance creativity
A) Stravinsky B) Bach C) Schumann D) Mozart
A) Miss Julie B) The Robbers C) Our Town D) The Anniversary
A) Chicago Symphony Orchestra B) New York Philharmonic C) Philadelphia Orchestra D) Boston Symphony Orchestra
A) Joshua Barone B) Thornton Wilder C) Kenneth Koch D) Harold C. Schonberg
A) Grammy Award B) Fulbright Scholarship C) Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Award D) Pulitzer Prize
A) Transitions B) Ends C) Middles D) Beginnings
A) Arthur Honegger B) Nadia Boulanger C) Marie-Laure de Noailles D) Elliott Stein
A) Paul Goodman B) Theodore Roethke C) John Ashbery D) Walt Whitman
A) Minimalism B) Serialism C) Aleatoric music D) Renaissance-derived ground bass
A) Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation B) Ford Foundation C) Koussevitzky Foundation D) Guggenheim Foundation
A) Leonard Bernstein B) Virgil Thomson C) Aaron Copland D) Mishel Piastro
A) April 12, 1964 B) April 12, 1965 C) April 12, 1966 D) April 12, 1963
A) Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 B) Ravel's Daphnis et Chloë C) Mozart's Requiem D) Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
A) Provincetown, Massachusetts B) Boston, Massachusetts C) Nantucket, Massachusetts D) Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
A) Recalling Nadia B) The Last Waltz C) End of an Era D) Final Symphony
A) 1995 B) 2003 C) 1990 D) 2000
A) Kenward Elmslie B) August Strindberg C) Thornton Wilder D) Ned Rorem
A) Piano accompaniments B) Song cycles C) Tonal music D) Strict modernist aesthetics
A) 1974 B) 1985 C) 1993 D) 1980
A) Disulfiram B) Antabuse C) Acamprosate D) Naltrexone
A) Nadia Boulanger B) Arthur Honegger C) Jonathan Sternberg D) Julius Katchen
A) Alcoholism B) Financial difficulties C) Addiction to drugs D) Depression
A) John Adams B) Steve Reich C) Daron Hagen D) Philip Glass
A) Emily Dickinson B) Wallace Stevens C) Sylvia Plath D) Witter Bynner
A) 1960s B) 1950s C) 1940s D) 1970s
A) Cycle of Holy Songs B) Poémes pour la paix C) To a Young Girl D) Flight for Heaven
A) Nature B) Four walls C) Travel D) City life
A) A teaching position B) Stability to abandon alcohol C) Financial support D) Inspiration for new compositions
A) Symphony No. 1 B) A Childhood Miracle C) Piano Concerto No. 2 D) Poémes pour la paix
A) 1979 B) 1965 C) 2005 D) 1994
A) Kenneth Koch B) Jascha Kessler C) Stein D) Holmes
A) An infantile regression takes place B) He felt a sense of peace C) He became more creative D) He felt a sense of guilt
A) Alfred, Lord Tennyson B) Frank O'Hara C) Kenneth Koch D) Robert Frost
A) Ends B) Middles C) Transitions D) Beginnings
A) A Childhood Miracle B) Dorian Gray C) Ballet for Jerry D) Melos |
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