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  • Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz

    de Katherine Baber ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    Leonard Bernstein's gifts for drama and connecting with popular audiences made him a central figure in twentieth century American music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from modernism to cartoon ditties, jazz permeated every part of his musical identity as a performer, educator, and intellectual. Katherine Baber investigates how jazz in its many styles served Bernstein as a ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume V

    The Symphony in the Americas

    de Katherine Baber, E. Douglas Bomberger, J. Peter Burkholder, Carol A. Hess, Susan Key, Drew Massey, Matthew Mugmon, Douglas Shadle ...
    Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 1700s, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges.In his series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late A. Peter Brown explored the symphony in Europe from its origins into the 20th century. In Volume V, Brown's former students and colleagues continue his vision by turning to the symphony in the Western ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC

    Works, Politics, Performances

    de Katherine Baber, Lars Helgert, Mari Yoshihara, Paul R. Paul R. Laird, Robert C. Lagueux, Sarah Elaine Sarah Elaine Neill, Alicia Kopfstein-Penk, Andrew H. Weaver0, Barry Seldes1, Carol Oja2, Elissa Harbert3, Professor Elizabeth A. Wells4 ...
    Composer, conductor, activist, and icon of twentieth-century America, Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) had a rich association with Washington, DC. Although he never lived there, the US capital was the site of some of the most importantmoments in his life and work, as he engaged with the nation's struggles and triumphs. By examining Bernstein through the lens of Washington, DC, this book offers new ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • 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

  • 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

  • The Free World

    Art and Thought in the Cold War

    de Louis Menand ...
    "An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one." —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post**"The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a sequel in mind. The bar is set very high." —David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review | Editors' ChoiceOne of The New York Times's 100 best books of 2021 | One of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Naming Names

    de Victor S. Navasky ...
    Winner of the National Book Award: The definitive history of Joe McCarthy, the Hollywood blacklist, and HUAC from a longtime editor of The Nation and former Chair of the Columbia Journalism Review .Drawing on interviews with over one hundred and fifty people who were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee—including Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner Jr., and A... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Classical Music Insights

    Understanding and Enjoying Great Music

    de Betsy Schwarm ...
    If you enjoy great music but want to know more about how it came to be the way it is - without investing time in a graduate degree - here are the background stories of over 200 great compositions. If you're only just coming to experiment with great music, here are guideposts to help you understand and enjoy what you encounter. The stories and sounds behind the scenes: welcome to Classical Music ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • City of Nets

    A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's

    de Otto Friedrich ...
    "With its tough humor, profound cynicism, and unerring nose for corruption and hypocrisy, City of Nets offers a distinctly Brechtian vision of Hollywood." — The Village VoiceIn 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The New York Times Essential Library: Classical Music

    de Allan Kozinn ...
    A dazzling appraisal of the definitive classical music performances available todayFor classical music lovers, there is nothing more beguiling and exciting than the range of technique and emotion that can capture or transform the great works in the hands of a conductor and musicians. But with hundreds of recordings released every year, discovering the jewels is a challenge, for newcomers as well ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • 1959

    The Year Everything Changed

    de Fred Kaplan ...
    Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed AmericaWhile conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, Fred Kaplan argues that it was 1959 that ushered in the wave of tremendous cultural, political, and scientific shifts that would play out in the decades that ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire, Fourth Edition

    de Maurice Hinson, Wesley Roberts ...
    Series series Indiana Repertoire Guides
    Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire continues to be the go-to source for piano performers, teachers, and students. Newly updated and expanded with over 250 new composers, this incomparable resource expertly guides readers to solo piano literature. What did a given composer write? What interesting work have I never heard of? How difficult is it? What are its special musical features? How can I reach ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD