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