Rudolf Serkin
Rudolf Serkin

Author: Stephen Lehmann

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003-01-16

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 019028482X

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This book is the first biography of 20th-century pianist Rudolf Serkin, providing a narrative of Serkin's life with emphasis on his European roots and the impact of his move to America. Based on his personal papers and correspondence, as well as extensive interviews with friends, family, and colleagues, the authors focus on three key aspects of Serkin's work, particularly as it unfolded in America: his art and career as a pianist, his activities as a pedagogue, including his long association with the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, and his key role in institutionalizing a redefinition of musical values in America through his work as artistic director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival in Vermont. A candid and colorful blend of narrative and interviews, it offers a probing look into the life and character of this very private man and powerful musical personality.

Music in Chopin's Warsaw
Music in Chopin's Warsaw

Author: Halina Goldberg

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2008-03-04

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0195130731

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"Warsaw was aware of and in tune with the most recent European styles and fashions in music, but it was also the cradle of a vernacular musical language that was initiated by the generation of Polish composers before Chopin and which found its full realization in his work. Had Chopin been born a decade earlier or a decade later, Goldberg argues, the capital - devastated by warfare and stripped of all cultural institutions - could not have provided support for his talent. The young composer would have been compelled to seek musical education abroad and thus would have been deprived of the specifically Polish experience so central to his musical style."--BOOK JACKET.

A Chronicle of First Broadcast Performances of Musical Works in the United Kingdom, 1923-1996
A Chronicle of First Broadcast Performances of Musical Works in the United Kingdom, 1923-1996

Author: Alastair Mitchell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 798

ISBN-13: 1351791257

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First published in 2001, this work provides detailed information taken from the ’Programmes-as-Broadcast’ daily log of output held at the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham. Arranged in chronological order, entries are given for broadcasts of first performances of musical works in the United Kingdom, and include details of: the date of the broadcast, the composer, the title of the work, performers and conductor. In addition to its usefulness as a reference tool, the Chronicle enables us to gauge the trends in twentieth-century British musical life, and the role of the BBC in their promotion.

New York Magazine
New York Magazine

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1991-03-04

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

The New Beethoven
The New Beethoven

Author: Jeremy Yudkin

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 573

ISBN-13: 1580469930

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Marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, this volume presents twenty-one completely new essays on aspects of Beethoven's personal life, his composing process, his manuscripts, and his greatest works.