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Book Serge Koussevitzky

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hugo Leichtentritt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-04
  • ISBN : 9780674181106
  • Pages : 199 pages

Download or read book Serge Koussevitzky written by Hugo Leichtentritt and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Serge Koussevitzky  the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New American Music

Download or read book Serge Koussevitzky the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New American Music written by Hugo Leichtentritt and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Serge Koussevitsky  the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New American Music

Download or read book Serge Koussevitsky the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New American Music written by Hugo Leichentritt and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding

Book Serge Kousevitzky  the Boston Symphony Orchesta  and the New American music

Download or read book Serge Kousevitzky the Boston Symphony Orchesta and the New American music written by Hugo Leichtentritt and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Koussevitzky

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  • Author : Moses Smith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1947
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Koussevitzky written by Moses Smith and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces in detail the career and achievements of the musician.

Book The Symphonic Repertoire  Volume V

Download or read book The Symphonic Repertoire Volume V written by Brian Hart and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 987 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 1700s, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges. In his series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late A. Peter Brown explored the symphony in Europe from its origins into the 20th century. In Volume V, Brown's former students and colleagues continue his vision by turning to the symphony in the Western Hemisphere. It examines the work of numerous symphonists active from the early 1800s to the present day and the unique challenges they faced in contributing to the European symphonic tradition. The research adds to an unmatched compendium of knowledge for the student, teacher, performer, and sophisticated amateur. This much-anticipated fifth volume of The Symphonic Repertoire: The Symphony in the Americas offers a user-friendly, comprehensive history of the symphony genre in the United States and Latin America.

Book    The    Boston Symphony Orchestra  Serge Koussevitzky and the Cultivating of French Music in America During the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Download or read book The Boston Symphony Orchestra Serge Koussevitzky and the Cultivating of French Music in America During the First Half of the Twentieth Century written by Pei Chao and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classical Music In America

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  • Author : Joseph Horowitz
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2005-03-15
  • ISBN : 9780393057171
  • Pages : 664 pages

Download or read book Classical Music In America written by Joseph Horowitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scholar and leading authority on American symphonic culture argues that classical music in the United States is peculiarly performance-driven, and he traces a musical trajectory rising to its peak at the close of the 19th century and receding after World War I.

Book Music for the Common Man

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  • Author : Elizabeth B. Crist
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2009-01-12
  • ISBN : 0199724296
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Music for the Common Man written by Elizabeth B. Crist and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, Aaron Copland began to write in an accessible style he described as "imposed simplicity." Works like El Salón México, Billy the Kid, Lincoln Portrait, and Appalachian Spring feature a tuneful idiom that brought the composer unprecedented popular success and came to define an American sound. Yet the cultural substance of that sound--the social and political perspective that might be heard within these familiar pieces--has until now been largely overlooked. While it has long been acknowledged that Copland subscribed to leftwing ideals, Music for the Common Man is the first sustained attempt to understand some of Copland's best-known music in the context of leftwing social, political, and cultural currents of the Great Depression and Second World War. Musicologist Elizabeth Crist argues that Copland's politics never merely accorded with mainstream New Deal liberalism, wartime patriotism, and Communist Party aesthetic policy, but advanced a progressive vision of American society and culture. Copland's music can be heard to accord with the political tenets of progressivism in the 1930s and '40s, including a fundamental sensitivity toward those less fortunate, support of multiethnic pluralism, belief in social democracy, and faith that America's past could be put in service of a better future. Crist explores how his works wrestle with the political complexities and cultural contradictions of the era by investing symbols of America--the West, folk song, patriotism, or the people--with progressive social ideals. Much as been written on the relationship between politics and art in the 1930s and '40s, but very little on concert music of the era. Music for the Common Man offers fresh insights on familiar pieces and the political context in which they emerged.

Book From Psalm to Symphony

Download or read book From Psalm to Symphony written by Nicholas E. Tawa and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines for the first time New England's rich heritage of music making over a span of 350 years

Book Virgil Thomson

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  • Author : Richard Kostelanetz
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-11
  • ISBN : 1135360839
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Virgil Thomson written by Richard Kostelanetz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential reader includes Thomson's essays on making a living as a musician; his articles on classic composers; his relation to his contemporaries; his articles on newcomers in the music world, including John Cage and Pierre Boulez; his autobiographical writings and commentary on his own works.

Book Koussevitzky

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  • Author : Moses Smith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1947
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Koussevitzky written by Moses Smith and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Crimson Letter

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  • Author : Douglass Shand-Tucci
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2004-06
  • ISBN : 9780312330903
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book The Crimson Letter written by Douglass Shand-Tucci and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book deeply impressive in its reach while also deeply embedded in its storied setting, bestselling historian Douglass Shand-Tucci explores the nature and expression of sexual identity at America's oldest university during the years of its greatest influence. The Crimson Letter follows the gay experience at Harvard in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing upon students, faculty, alumni, and hangers-on who struggled to find their place within the confines of Harvard Yard and in the society outside. Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde were the two dominant archetypes for gay undergraduates of the later nineteenth century. One was the robust praise-singer of American democracy, embraced at the start of his career by Ralph Waldo Emerson; the other was the Oxbridge aesthete whose visit to Harvard in 1882 became part of the university's legend and lore, and whose eventual martyrdom was a cautionary tale. Shand-Tucci explores the dramatic and creative oppositions and tensions between the Whitmanic and the Wildean, the warrior poet and the salon dazzler, and demonstrates how they framed the gay experience at Harvard and in the country as a whole. The core of this book, however, is a portrait of a great university and its community struggling with the full implications of free inquiry. Harvard took very seriously its mission to shape the minds and bodies of its charges, who came from and were expected to perpetuate the nation's elite, yet struggled with the open expression of their sexual identities, which it alternately accepted and anathematized. Harvard believed it could live up to the Oxbridge model, offering a sanctuary worthy of the classical Greek ideals of male association, yet somehow remain true to its legacy of respectable austerity and Puritan self-denial. The Crimson Letter therefore tells stories of great unhappiness and manacled minds, as well as stories of triumphant activism and fulfilled promise. Shand-Tucci brilliantly exposes the secrecy and codes that attended the gay experience, showing how their effects could simultaneously thwart and spark creativity. He explores in particular the question of gay sensibility and its effect upon everything from symphonic music to football, set design to statecraft, poetic theory to skyscrapers. The Crimson Letter combines the learned and the lurid, tragedy and farce, scandal and vindication, and figures of world renown as well as those whose influence extended little farther than Harvard Square. Here is an engrossing account of a university transforming and transformed by those passing through its gates, and of their enduring impact upon American culture.

Book America s Music  from the Pilgrims to the Present

Download or read book America s Music from the Pilgrims to the Present written by Gilbert Chase and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of American music, its diversity, and the cultural influences that helped it develop.