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A choral work by Morton Lauridsen uses the same text as this composer’s song “Sure on this Shining Night.” This composer wrote the aria “Must the winter come so soon?” for an opera whose title role was premiered (20[1])by Eleanor Steber, (20[1])who commissioned this composer (20[1])to adapt a nostalgic prose poem narrated by a boy. (20[2])This composer arranged a B-flat minor work of his into a choral Agnus (20[2])Dei. This composer (20[1])set texts by his partner (*) Gian Carlo Menotti (10[2])and (10[1])the poet (10[2])James Agee, (10[1])such as Knoxville: (10[2])Summer (10[1])of 1915. (10[2])This man adapted (10[1])the second (10[1])movement of his (10[1])Opus 11 string quartet (10[1])into (10[1])a piece for string orchestra that was broadcast for the deaths of FDR (10[1])and (10[1])JFK. For 10 points, name this composer of Vanessa and Adagio for Strings. (10[3])■END■ (10[4])

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