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