A Tear in the Curtain: The Musical Diplomacy of Erzsébet Szőnyi: Musician, Composer, Teacher of Teachers

ISBN-13: 9781433124464 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 320 str.

Jerry Louis Jaccard

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Why are so few women composers known to the general public and even fewer of their works studied and performed? More than one musicologist told the author that they are not famous enough to be considered So then, can a woman who studied with Boulanger and Messiaen, who won the coveted Paris Conservatory Prize in Composition, who received the highest awards her country can bestow, and who produced some of the finest teaching musicians on the globe qualify as famous? This book is about one who can and does: Erzsebet Szonyi, a Hungarian Renaissance woman, who, in spite of a repressive regime's attempts to contain her, ended up wielding an international artistic and pedagogical influence.
Readers interested in music education, women's and family studies, Kodaly studies, Classical education, theory and composition, musicology, creative processes, educational psychology, and the history and sociology of pre- and postwar Central Europe will find A Tear in the Curtain: The Musical Diplomacy of Erzsebet Szonyi: Musician, Composer, Teacher of Teachers to be a compelling read. One is left to contemplate what society should actually expect from the education of its citizens.
In this book, readers clearly hear Erzsebet Szonyi's own voice as she describes her journey through unimaginable joys, sorrows, and personal challenges to emerge as a muse for our age. More like her are needed; perhaps through her life story we can learn how to raise them. The message is clear: Fame is a life lived in the service of others.

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Jerry L. Jaccard received his Doctor of Education degree in Instructional Leadership at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, his Master of Music Education degree from Holy Names University, and his Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Arizona. He currently coordinates the Elementary Music Education Program and directs the InterMuse Academy for Pedagogy and Musicianship at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He is a frequent keynote speaker and guest lecturer in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The Organization of American Kodály Educators honored him as their Outstanding Educator in 2004. He is the lead editor of the Bulletin of the International Kodály Society, having previously served two terms as vice-president of that organization. He is co-author of Intersections: Music, Tradition and Education, and he is the translator of Edgar Willems's Psychological Foundations of Musical Education.