Virgil Thomson : A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924-1984

ISBN-13: 9780415937955 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 304 str.

Virgil; Richard Kostelanetz

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Fifty years after his death many consider Dylan Thomas to have been the best lyric poet of his age. Andrew Sinclair in this book, explains how Thomas attracted a new mass audience and discusses the influences on his work that stemmed from the divisions and tensions of the poet's Welsh heritage. He attempts to capture the tragic and exuberant story of Thomas's personal life, his vision of Wales and the writing of his masterpeice Under Milk Wood, the brawling and boozing in Fitzrovia during the 1930s and 40s and the last American tour of the 50s, that ended with his death.

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Preface Introduction Autobiography (1971) 1. The Life of Music Life Among the Natives (1939) How Composers Eat (1939) Why Composers Write How (1939) Age Without Honor (1940) Masterpieces (1944) Conducting Modern Music (1942) The Intellectual Audience (1942) Bigger than Baseball (1953) The Burning Question (1966) On Writing Opera and Staging Them (1982) The New Grove. (1981) II. Precursors Mozart's Leftism (1940) The Official Stravinsky (1936) Acquaintance with Wagner (1943) Fairy Tale about Music (1945) The Tradition of Sensability [Claude Debussy] (1965) French Music Here [Erik Satie] (1941) [Edward MacDowell's Music (1944) Carl Ruggles (1971) Ernest Bloch, Robert Nathaniel Dett, Arthur Farwell, Horatio parker, Wallingford Riegger, Deems Taylor (1971) Reactionary Critic (1951) III. Contemporaries-Performers Great Music [Artur Rubenstein] (1940) Pipe-Organ Obsessions [Leopold Stokowski] (1940) Master of Distortion and Exaggeration [Vladimir Horowitz] (1942) Silk-Underwear Music [Jascha Heifitz] (1940) The Toscanini Case (1942) Violence and Charm [Rudolf Firkunsky] (1944) The Koussevitzky Case (1947) In Spite of Conducting [Dimitri Mitropolos] (1953) Jazz (1924) Swing Music (1936) Sacred Swing [Gospel Music] (1941) La Môme Piaf (1947) IV. Contemporaries-Composers George Gershwin (1935) [Charlie] Chaplin Scores (1940) Star Dust and Spun Steel [Anton Webern (1950) Most Melodious Tears [Kurt Weill] (1933) Oliview Messiaen (1945) Music Now (1961) Edgard Varése (1966) Aaron Copland (1932, 1949, 1957, 1971) George Anthiel, Theodore Chanler, Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington, Ross Lee Finney, George Gershwin, Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, Otto Luening, Colin MCPhee, Harry Partch, Alexander Tcherepnin, Randall Thompson (1971) V> Contemporaries: Publishers, Artists, Writers, and a Museum Director The Paper [New York Herald Tribune (1966) A War's End [Modern Music] (1947) Eugene Bergman (1974) Gertrude Stein (1953, 1982, 1989) On, Donald Sutherland (1978) Edwin Denby (1984) The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music [Everett Chick Austin] (1958) VI. Successors Expressive Percussion [John Cage] (1945) Gian-Carlo Menotti (1947, 1950) The Genius Type [Pierre Boulez] (1968) Milton Babbitt, Samuel Berber, Arthur Berger, William Bergsma, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Paul Bowles, Henry Brant, Elliott Carter, David Diamond, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Vivian Fine, William Flanagan, Lukas Foss, Kenneth Gaburo, Morton Gould, Alan Hovhaness, Hershy Kay, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Eric Salzman, Elie Siegmeister, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Christian Wolff (1971) VII. Autobiography A Personal Statement (c. 1981) The Music Reviewer and His Assignment (1953) Europe in America (1966) All Roads Lead to Paris (1966) Eugene Berman 1899-1972 (1974) Leonid Berman 1896-1976 (1978) Possibilities: V.T. questioned by 8 Composers (1947) VIII. His Own Works On Portraits and Operas About Four Saints and Synopsis Sea Piece with Birds (1952) The Feast of Love The Seine at Night Bibliography

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Richard Kostelanetz has edited and authored over forty volumes on contemporary music and culture, including A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, also published by Routledge.