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Bernstein: A Biography
Book Title Author(s) : Joan Peyser
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Published in nine countries and widely praised for its candid approach, the acclaimed biography of revered and controversial conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein is now revised to include a new chapter focusing on the artist's death and subsequent tributes. 36 illustrations....Read More

The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin
Book Title Author(s) : Joan Peyser
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This is a startlingly fresh account of the life of one of the greatest 20th-century Americans, composer and songwriter George Gershwin. Joan Peyser examines Gershwin's character, his complex relationship with brother and collaborator Ira, and his several romantic affairs. This 2007 edition includes ...Read More

To Boulez and Beyond
Book Title Author(s) : Joan Peyser
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Joan Peyser offers a history of twentieth century music through the lives and works of its greatest composers in To Boulez and Beyond. Peyser provides historical context and suggests psychological insight for these masters, including Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern of the Second Viennese School;...Read More

Twentieth-Century Music: The Sense Behind the Sound
Book Title Author(s) : Joan Peyser
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To Boulez and Beyond: Music in Europe Since the Rite of Spring
Book Title Author(s) : Joan Peyser, Joan
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Beginning with Stravinsky and "The Rite of Spring," this book traces the course of classical music from the early twentieth century to the present day and beyond, as it moves into the twenty-first century. This elucidating text covers the major figures in music of the past hundred years, from Schoen...Read More

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)
Book Title Author(s) : Joan Peyser
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The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought
Book Title Author(s) : William R. Everdell
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A lively and accessible history of Modernism, The First Moderns is filled with portraits of genius, and intellectual breakthroughs, that richly evoke the fin-de-siècle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St. Louis, and St. Petersburg. William Everdell offers readers an invigorating look at t...Read More

Conversing with Cage
Book Title Author(s) : Richard Kostelanetz
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Conversing with Cage draws on over 150 interviews with John Cage conducted over four decades to draw a full picture of his life and art. Filled with the witty aphorisms that have made Cage as famous as an esthetic philosopher as a composer, the book offers both an introduction to Cage's way of think...Read More

 

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