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