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