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