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