Ernest Bloch Studies

ISBN-13: 9781107039094 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 310 str.

Alexander Knapp

Opis

This comprehensive study of Bloch's life and works draws on recollections of those who knew and worked with the composer.

Spis treści

Foreword: reminiscences of my grandfather Ernest Bloch, II; Chronology; Alphabetical list of Bloch's published and unpublished works Alexander Knapp; Bloch resources: recordings in the age of the Internet Stanley Henig; Introduction Norman Solomon; 1. From Geneva to New York: radical changes in Ernest Bloch's view of himself as a 'Jewish composer' during his twenties and thirties Alexander Knapp; 2. The 'suffering and greatness' of Ernest Bloch: concepts of the composer as genius Klára Móricz; 3. Bloch, Wagner and creativity: refutation and vindication Malcolm Miller; 4. Sacred service: the mass Bloch never wrote, the two that Leonard Bernstein did write, and Shulamit Ran's Credo/Ani Ma'Amin David Schiller; 5. Oregon years: the man and his music David Z. Kushner; 6. 'The future alone will be the judge': Ernest Bloch's epic journeys between Utopia and Dystopia Philip V. Bohlman; 7. The reception of Bloch's music in Palestine/Israel to 1948 Jehoash Hirshberg; 8. Bloch's reception and his standing in Israel since 1954 Zecharia Plavin; 9. A performance history of Bloch's opera Macbeth: Paris 1910-Manhattan 2014 Stanley Henig; 10. King Solomon and the Baal Shem Tov: traditional elements in Bloch's musical representation of two iconic personalities from Jewish history Alexander Knapp; 11. Postscript: the legacy Norman Solomon.