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