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