Composers who overcame obstacles

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone (7)
  2. 5. Something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted (plural) (9)
  3. 8. Wrongly understood (13)
  4. 9. Style of music with improvisation, born in New Orleans (4)
  5. 10. United States astronaut (9)
  6. 11. A four-stringed instrument usually played with a bow. (6)
  7. 12. People who have severe hearing impairments (4)
  8. 15. The last day before Lent (9)
  9. 16. Producing musical sounds with the voice. (7)

Down

  1. 1. Someone devoted to the promotion of ___ welfare and to social reforms (12)
  2. 2. Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality (6)
  3. 4. People who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group (5)
  4. 6. A port and largest city in Louisiana (10)
  5. 7. The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions (7)
  6. 13. Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest (9)
  7. 14. A musical percussion instrument (plural) (5)