"Deems Taylor: Selected Writings serves as a valuable introduction to the work of the composer-critic."--NOTES
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Poems, 1911-1919 -- Chapter 2 -- New York Sunday Tribune Magazine Articles and Some Others, 1914-1919 -- Chapter 3 -- New York World Music Criticisms, 1921-1925 -- Chapter 4 -- Vanity Fair Articles, 1927-1929 -- Intermission — An American in Paris -- Chapter 5 -- New York American “Words and Music” Columns, 1931-1932 Chapter 6 -- Chapters from Taylor’s Books: Of Men and Music (1937), The Well-Tempered Listener (1940), and Music to My Ears (1949); Several New York Philharmonic Intermission Talk Scripts; and His Final Article (1959) -- Bibliography -- Index
James Pegolotti is the author of Deems Taylor: A Biography (2003), an acclaimed account of the composer's life.