music: chapter 13
Duke Ellington found great success merging:
jazz and concert music
n which year was the League of Composers was founded?
1923
James P. Johnson's Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody premiered in:
Carnegie hall
With whom had Florence Price studied composition?
Chadwick
Which of the following conductors especially championed the music of new American composers?
Serge Koussevitsky
Gerswhin's first hit was:
Swanee
The premiere of William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony marked the first time in history that:
a major orchestra performed a symphonic work by an African American composer
Founded in 1928, the ____________ concerts produced ten concerts by 1932.
copland-sessions
Ruth Crawford Seeger's early compositions were inspired by:
dane rudhyar
The first piece by Aaron Copland to quote folk material was:
el salon Mexico
George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess became the twentieth century's most performed piece of American concert music.
false
In the decades between the two worlds, the composer was elevated to a standing in the classical sphere once reserved for the performer.
false
James P. Johnson's concert music enjoyed moderate critical and popular success during his lifetime
false
Ruth Crawford Seeger was the third woman to receive the Guggenheim Fellowship.
false
Ruth Crawford Seeger's music was often directly connected with:
politics
George Gershwin's early work was as a:
song plugger
Aaron Copland's modernist interests managed to appeal to conservative tastes
true
Florence Price carried forward the development of the concert spiritual as begun by Harry T. Burleigh.
true
The radio proved an important new medium to broadcast a wide variety of music.
true
William Grant Still was his generation's most versatile black composer.
true