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