James Reese Europe, one of the most successful leaders of New York dance orchestras, highly prized his musicians' flights of improvisation

Jazz performance in the 1920s shows a shift away from

a. collective improvisation to virtuosic individual solos b. collective improvisation to arrangements for big bands c. big-band arrangements to collective improvisation d. individual solos to collective improvisation

All of the following composers continued to compose in the Classical symphonic form except

A. Schumann. B. Mendelssohn. C. Liszt. D. Brahms.