#11 Porter, Graham, & Music

Question 1

Cole Porter’s ______ was banned on American Radio.

Answer 1

¨Love for Sale¨ In the Broadway play ¨The New Yorkers¨

Question 2

In Paris, Graham met _____ & _____ _____ who introduced her to new music & cultures.

Answer 2

African and Afro-Caribbean people

Question 3

In 1926, Graham moved to _____ to study music at the _____.

Answer 3

Paris Sorbonne

Question 4

In later life Shirley Graham married ______ and moved to ______.

Answer 4

W.E.B Dubois; Ghana

Question 5

Shirley Graham DuBois was an award winning _______ ______.

Answer 5

author, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American and other causes

Question 6

Shirley Graham and W.E.B. Dubois were members of the _____ _____. She also helped organize the _______.

Answer 6

Communist party; Progressive Party (1948)

Question 7

When Graham was dismissed in 1942 as director of a YWCA-USO for protests and defending protesters, she was offered a job by the _______.

Answer 7

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Question 8

___________ became the 1st African-American woman to write and produce an opera with an all-black cast.

Answer 8

Shirley Graham

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

13

Question 10

Shirley Graham Dubois is the subject of _______ _______.

Answer 10

¨Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Dubois¨

Question 11

Selections of Shirley Graham Dubois’ correspondence with her husband W.E.B. Dubois, ____________.

Answer 11

Correspondence of W.E.B. Dubois

Question 12

Graham wrote biographies about _____&______ because of her personal knowledge of these people.

Answer 12

Paul Robeson; Kwame Nkrumah

Question 13

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.

Answer 13

biographies for Young Readers

Question 14

“Tom Tom” premiered in Cleveland, Ohio to a premier of _____ and _____ people at a second performance.

Answer 14

10,000; 15,000

Question 15

¨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 _______________.

Answer 15

to the North American colonies, from slavery to freedom.

Question 16

After studying in Paris, Graham wrote an opera, __________.

Answer 16

Tom Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro

Question 17

In the late 1940’s, Graham became a member of _________, an African-American organization for global women’s liberation.

Answer 17

Sojourners for Truth and Justice

Question 18

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.

Answer 18

Graham; Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Question 19

At Yale, _______, had his own Piano and wrote approximately 300 songs while a student there.

Answer 19

Cole Porter

Question 20

_________ said “Works and music must be so inseparably webbed to each other that they are like one.”

Answer 20

Cole Porter

Question 21

Cole Porter trained on the ______ and the _____. He did not care for the violin and continued his works on the _____.

Answer 21

violin and piano; violin-discontinued in Prep School; Piano

Question 22

Peru, Indiana-the birth place of Cole Porter, is known in Indiana as _____, because _________.

Answer 22

Circus City; “Great Wallace Show” wintered there. Porter visited the circus grounds as a youth.

Question 23

Both Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael were encouraged to study _____ and become _____.

Answer 23

law; lawyers

Question 24

Cole Porter was not encouraged by his _______ to pursue music.

Answer 24

father or grandfather

Question 25

Both Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael were encouraged by ________.

Answer 25

their mothers

Question 26

“Bobolink Waltz” was Cole Porter’s 1st published work with 100 printed copies pad for by _______.

Answer 26

his mother

Question 27

In Europe, Cole Porter met and married _____ ________ who was supported of Cole’s music.

Answer 27

Linda Lee Thomas

Question 28

In 1916, Cole Porter had his musical, ______ open on Broadway. Probably his 1st.

Answer 28

“See America First”

Question 29

John Leslie “Wes” Montgomery was an ______.

Answer 29

American jazz guitarist; Genres were Jazz, soul jazz, crossover jazz, mainstream jazz, hard bop

Question 30

Wes Montgomery and his brothers, Monk and Buddy, were performers and released albums under the name ______.

Answer 30

Montgomery Brothers

Question 31

Wes Montgomery played by _____. Because he could learn complex melodies and niffs he was hired to _____.

Answer 31

ear; by Lionel Hampton

Question 32

Wes Montgomery followed the work of _____ and _____.

Answer 32

Charlie Christian, a string guitar player and Django Reinhardt, gypsy jazz guitarist

Question 33

Wes Montgomery turned from hand-bop to pop jazz later in his career, which made him _____________.

Answer 33

wealthy and brought fame

Question 34

Wes Montgomery used the ______ with his chord melody and chord solo playing to play jazz guitar.

Answer 34

chord technique

Question 35

In writing a song, Porter started with _____ and then a _____. He then would _____ beginning near the _____ so the song had a strong finish.

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Cole Porter’s 1st Film assignment was ___________.

Answer 36

The Battle of Paris 1929