The Music of My Time: Collected essays and articles by a gited musicologist, on the modern classical scene (Something About the Music : Guide to Contemporary Repertory, Vol 1)

Joan Peyser

ISBN 10: 0912483997 / ISBN 13: 9780912483993

Published by Pro/Am Music Resources, White Plains, NY, 1995

About this Item

Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published White Plains, NY: Pro/Am Music Resources, 1995, first printing. 8vo., xvi+474pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Inscribed by author on half title: "For.This book is really an obituary for the music I've been writing about all my life." Minor dust foxing on top edge, else fine in fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Music of My Time: Collected essays and articles by a gited musicologist, on the modern classical scene (Something About the Music : Guide to Contemporary Repertory, Vol 1)
• Publisher: Pro/Am Music Resources, White Plains, NY
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0912483997
• ISBN 13: 9780912483993
• Binding: Hard
• Edition: 1st
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music

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Synopsis

Music critic and biographer Joan Peyser's articles from the New York Times and other publications trace contemporary music from Schoenberg to Charles Wuorinen and Tod Machover, with pieces about Maria Callas, the Beatles and the New York Philharmonic along the way.

Review

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