Question
Name these artists profiled in one-hour specials of the 1957 CBS series The Seven Lively Arts, for 10 points each.
[10e] In the “Sound of Jazz” episode, these two musicians lock eyes as one sings her standard “Fine and Mellow” and the other plays a tenor sax solo. These two lifelong friends gave each other the nicknames “Prez” and “Lady Day.”
ANSWER: Billie Holiday AND Lester Young [accept Eleanora Fagan in place of “Billie Holiday”; accept Lester Willis Young in place of “Lester Young”]
[10m] This choreographer’s two protégés Gemze (“JEM-zee”) de Lappe and James Mitchell starred in the series’s production of the ballet Gold Rush. Scottish step-dancing inspired this dancer’s choreography for the musical Brigadoon.
ANSWER: Agnes de Mille [or Agnes George de Mille] (Gold Rush is a restaging of Lerner and Loewe’s Paint Your Wagon.)
[10h] This Italian-American student of Hindemith won the 1957 Pulitzer in Music. Martha Graham choreographed ballets by this composer of Satiric Dances, who used a tonal, rhythmic style in Variations, Chaconne and Finale for orchestra.
ANSWER: Norman Dello Joio [or Nicodemo DeGioio]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 7.33 | 47% | 27% | 0% |