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