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