Music of My Time: Collected Essays and Articles (Something About the Music : Guide to Contemporary Repertory, Vol 1) - Hardcover

Peyser, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0912483997 ISBN 13: 9780912483993

Publisher: Pro Am Music Resources, 1995

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Joan Peyser's The Music Of My Time profiles major 20th Century composers, performers and institutions in 50 incisive musical studies. From Schoenberg, Stravin-sky, Varese, Cowell and Bartok to new productions currently premiering on the stage of the New York City Opera, The Music Of My Time encompasses a colorful variety of musical styles and personalities including atonality and 12-tone writing; the Boulanger proteges Thomson, Carter, Diamond and Rorem; the vernacular idiom of Gershwin, Blitzstein, Bernstein, Morton Gould and the Beatles; the influence of American academic and independent musicians such as Babbitt, Sessions, Wolpe, Wyuorinen, Kirchner and Harbison; contemporary European composers Boulez, Berio, Henze, Stockhausen and Britten; and (throughout the period) the rise and fortunes of such institutions as the New York Philharmonic, the Lincoln Center, and the Santa Fe Opera; as well as memorable arts like Maria Callas, Richard Tucker, and Jose Quintero. The Music Of My Time is a magnificent, wide-ranging compendium of contemporary music history. Informative, challenging, entertaining, and fascinating reading. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Pro Am Music Resources
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0912483997
• ISBN 13: 9780912483993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480