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  • The Disciple

    A Wagnerian Tale of the Gilded Age

    de Joseph Horowitz ...
    Cloaked in mystery, Anton Seidl materialized in the New World as Wagner's personal emissary. A sorcerer, he commanded musical New York and toured widely, everywhere received with awed deference. In Brooklyn, Laura Langford's Seidl Society presented summertime Seidl concerts on Coney Island fourteen times weekly. Working women arrived in special railroad cars; Black orphans were regaled with roast ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Die Mahlers in New York

    de Joseph Horowitz ...
    »Gustav Mahler war für Amerika nicht bestimmt. Fernab seines gewohnten Ambientes wirft Mahlers holprige New Yorker Karriere – an der Metropolitan Opera und bei den New Yorker Philharmonikern (1907–1911) – ein überdeutliches Schlaglicht auf seine Eigenheiten. Über den Menschen Mahler lernt man in Manhattan Dinge, die in Wien oder Budapest nicht so leicht zu beobachten waren. Das ist meine erste ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Propaganda of Freedom

    JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War

    de Joseph Horowitz ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitalityEloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock assumption of the Cold War. That this conviction defied centuries of historical evidence--to say nothing of achievements within the Soviet Union--failed to impact impregnable cultural Cold War doctrine ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Dvorak's Prophecy

    And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music

    de Joseph Horowitz ...
    **A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it.**In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Viaggio in America

    Musica coast to coast

    de Emanuele Arciuli, Carlo Boccadoro, Joseph Horowitz ...
    Series Libro 3 - Correnti
    «Che ne pensi del rock cambogiano?»La domanda suona bizzarra, perché il rock cambogiano non è un vero e proprio argomento di conversazione – un po’ come la musica colta americana, verrebbe da pensare. In questo libro si scopre invece quante sorprese riservino in merito gli Stati Uniti, a volerli esplorare meglio: compositori dissacranti, interpreti estrosi, personaggi, sonorità e atmosfere ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • "On My Way"

    The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess

    de Joseph Horowitz ...
    A revelatory history of the operatic masterpiece that both made and destroyed Rouben Mamoulian, its director and unsung hero."Bring my goat!" Porgy exclaims in the final scene of Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess. Bess, whom he loves, has left for New York City, and he’s determined to find her. When his request is met with astonishment—New York is a great distance from South Carolina’s Catfish Row ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Artists in Exile

    How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts

    de Joseph Horowitz ...

    $7.99 USD

  • Moral Fire

    Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle

    de Joseph Horowitz ...
    Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met’s screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

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  • The Rest Is Noise

    Listening to the Twentieth Century

    de Alex Ross ...
    **Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the YearTime magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007A Washington Post Book World** Best Book of 2007In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its m... ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • The First Four Notes

    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    de Matthew Guerrieri ...
    A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New Yorker Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the YearA unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last two hundred years.Music ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Aaron Copland

    The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man

    de Howard Pollack ...
    A candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer.The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Aaron Copland (1900-1990) became one of America's most beloved and esteemed composers. His work, which includes Fanfare for the Common Man, A Lincoln Portrait, and Appalachian Spring, has been honored by a huge following of devoted listeners.But the full richness of Copland's life and accomplishments ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Music in the Early Twentieth Century

    The Oxford History of Western Music

    de Richard Taruskin ...
    The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a ... Leer más

    $37.79 USD