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