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Modern Period of Music Part II

NAME____________________________________
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conducted the New York Philharmonic
studied law before becoming a pupil of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, with his break coming in 1909, when Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev commissioned him to write the music for a new ballet, The Firebird
Composed the ballets Appalachian Spring and Billy the Kid, Rodeo
born in Orel, Russia, near Moscow, awarded the silver medal in the 1997 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and is the Distinguished Professor of Piano and Artist-in-Residence at UAB
1st Symphony was such a disaster that he needed a form of hypnosis to gradually restore his faith in himself to enable him to compose his highly successful 2nd Piano Concerto
composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history winning 25 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards
conducted most of the world's leading orchestras, and whose score for the Broadway musical, West Side Story, was made into a movie
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wife was sent to a concentration camp
conducted the Boston Pops
wrote the opera Porgy and Bess while on vacation, initially a commercial failure, it came to be considered one of the most important American operas of the twentieth century and an American cultural classic
2017 Grammy-nominated classical pianist, born in Seoul, Korea, awarded the silver medal in the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, currently residing in Birmingham
Well-known for his Fanfare for the Common Man
One of 3 composers were born during the time of Tsar Nicholas II, and lived through the Russian Revolution
wrote the text and music for a composition in 1936, to entertain children and teach them about the instruments of the orchestra (each instrument or group of instruments is allotted to a character in the story), very much in line with Soviet educational policy