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