Influencing musical life from the 1880s through the First World War and remaining productive into the 1940s, Richard Strauss enjoyed a remarkable career in a constantly changing artistic and political climate. This volume presents essays on Strauss' musical works and brings together letters and memoirs from various periods of the composer's life.
The story of Arthur Farwell (1872-1952) reveals the human side of a composer caught up in a passionate love for his country and its 'common people' and shows how he made music a community experience.
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Focusing on the works of J. S. Bach, this invaluable guide surveys the choral-orchestral repertoire.
For this new edition, Edward Berger has brought the unparalleled Carter saga into the new millennium, adding insider accounts of tours, major concerts, recordings, and other special events. The accompanying annotated discography, one of the most comprehensive ever devoted to the work of a single musician, has been thoroughly revised and updated.
The author sheds some much-needed light on one of the most interesting anomalies in American musical history_Septimus Winner a.k.a. Alice Hawthorne.
This entire volume is organized in a clear, readable format, resulting in a book that will help to make productions of The Cunning Little Vixen in the original Czech much easier a task than ever before.