#11 Porter, Graham, & Music Flashcards
Cole Porter’s ______ was banned on American Radio.
¨Love for Sale¨ In the Broadway play ¨The New Yorkers¨
In Paris, Graham met _____ & _____ _____ who introduced her to new music & cultures.
African and Afro-Caribbean people
In 1926, Graham moved to _____ to study music at the _____.
Paris Sorbonne
In later life Shirley Graham married ______ and moved to ______.
W.E.B Dubois; Ghana
Shirley Graham DuBois was an award winning _______ ______.
author, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American and other causes
Shirley Graham and W.E.B. Dubois were members of the _____ _____. She also helped organize the _______.
Communist party; Progressive Party (1948)
When Graham was dismissed in 1942 as director of a YWCA-USO for protests and defending protesters, she was offered a job by the _______.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
___________ became the 1st African-American woman to write and produce an opera with an all-black cast.
Shirley Graham
Shirley Graham Dubois wrote her 1st editorial to an Indianapolis newspaper protesting racial discrimination when she was ______, after being denied access to a YWCA swimming pool.
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Shirley Graham Dubois is the subject of _______ _______.
¨Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Dubois¨
Selections of Shirley Graham Dubois’ correspondence with her husband W.E.B. Dubois, ____________.
Correspondence of W.E.B. Dubois
Graham wrote biographies about _____&______ because of her personal knowledge of these people.
Paul Robeson; Kwame Nkrumah
Shirley Graham Dubois wrote literature in various genres after having a hard time getting plays published and produced. She specialized in _________ of African-American and World figures.
biographies for Young Readers
“Tom Tom” premiered in Cleveland, Ohio to a premier of _____ and _____ people at a second performance.
10,000; 15,000
¨Tom Tom; An Epic of Music and the Negro¨ used music, dance, and a book to express the story of African’s journey to the _______________.
to the North American colonies, from slavery to freedom.
After studying in Paris, Graham wrote an opera, __________.
Tom Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro
In the late 1940’s, Graham became a member of _________, an African-American organization for global women’s liberation.
Sojourners for Truth and Justice
In 1936, _____ was appointed director of the Chicago Negro Unit of the Federal Theater Project, port of FDR’s _____ where she wrote musical scores and other work.
Graham; Works Progress Administration (WPA)
At Yale, _______, had his own Piano and wrote approximately 300 songs while a student there.
Cole Porter
_________ said “Works and music must be so inseparably webbed to each other that they are like one.”
Cole Porter
Cole Porter trained on the ______ and the _____. He did not care for the violin and continued his works on the _____.
violin and piano; violin-discontinued in Prep School; Piano
Peru, Indiana-the birth place of Cole Porter, is known in Indiana as _____, because _________.
Circus City; “Great Wallace Show” wintered there. Porter visited the circus grounds as a youth.
Both Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael were encouraged to study _____ and become _____.
law; lawyers
Cole Porter was not encouraged by his _______ to pursue music.
father or grandfather
Both Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael were encouraged by ________.
their mothers
“Bobolink Waltz” was Cole Porter’s 1st published work with 100 printed copies pad for by _______.
his mother
In Europe, Cole Porter met and married _____ ________ who was supported of Cole’s music.
Linda Lee Thomas
In 1916, Cole Porter had his musical, ______ open on Broadway. Probably his 1st.
“See America First”
John Leslie “Wes” Montgomery was an ______.
American jazz guitarist; Genres were Jazz, soul jazz, crossover jazz, mainstream jazz, hard bop
Wes Montgomery and his brothers, Monk and Buddy, were performers and released albums under the name ______.
Montgomery Brothers
Wes Montgomery played by _____. Because he could learn complex melodies and niffs he was hired to _____.
ear; by Lionel Hampton
Wes Montgomery followed the work of _____ and _____.
Charlie Christian, a string guitar player and Django Reinhardt, gypsy jazz guitarist
Wes Montgomery turned from hand-bop to pop jazz later in his career, which made him _____________.
wealthy and brought fame
Wes Montgomery used the ______ with his chord melody and chord solo playing to play jazz guitar.
chord technique
In writing a song, Porter started with _____ and then a _____. He then would _____ beginning near the _____ so the song had a strong finish.
idea and then a title; end of the refrain; he repeated the title phrase at the beginning of the refrain and the repeating at the end
Cole Porter’s 1st Film assignment was ___________.
The Battle of Paris 1929
