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This volume gathers together a wide-ranging collection of pieces from leading musical commentators and critics. Included are candid and revealing interviews with the composer himself, as well as eloquent essays by Alex Ross - music critic for the "New Yorker". The author has grouped this collection into four sections: profiles of the composer, including a fascinating study of his early years; detailed essays on his major works; interviews with Adams's leading collaborators and interpreters; and critical receptions of his works.

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Rather than wage a price war, Leslie Boosey and Ralph Hawkes chose to
merge their rival businesses in 1930, expanding from their London base
to build a worldwide operation. Signing Bartók and Strauss and investing
in young composers like Britten and Copland, the company fully came of
age with the acquisition of Serge Koussevitzky’s Russian catalogue with
its masterpieces by Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff and Prokofieff. Journalist and broadcaster Helen Wallace charts the company’s progress through boom years and unexpected financial threats, drawing on archive correspondence, press reports and interviews with composers and employees, past and present.

"Rivalry, romance, jealousy, generational change: the Boosey story is a ripping yarn worthy of a novel, if not a grand opera… Wallace's racy digest shows us how backroom businessmen continue to shape musical history."
Financial Times Magazine

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In 1955 Diana McVeagh published a pioneering study of Edward Elgar. In Elgar the Music Maker she harvests five decades of thoughts about his music, scrutinizing the biographical details that have since been discovered. Each of Elgar's works is discussed, balancing information and appraisal, from his juvenilia to his unfinished Third Symphony.

L’Association des amis d’André Jolivet vous informe de la parution des écrits du compositeur. Les textes, rédigés entre 1921 et 1974, ont été transcrits, présentés et annotés par Christine Jolivet-Erlih.

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The second volume of Sergey Prokofiev’s recently uncovered Diaries extends from 1915 to 1922 - a momentous epoch in European history, in the personal story of Prokofiev’s life, and in the development of his art. The Diaries describe in detail the genesis and, all too often, the problematical path to performance, of major works in the canon. A period of sustained creative endeavour, therefore, interspersed with the life of a touring virtuoso pianist, all the more remarkable considering the life-changing experiences of living, working and travelling in war-torn and revolutionary Russia, his decision to leave Russia and embark on the precarious life of an artist in the mythic America.

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The book, written with a deep appreciation of Prokofiev’s style and creativity, looks at the sonatas within the context of Prokofiev’s complete oeuvre.  For each sonata, Berman provides general information about the work and a discussion of the composition’s details and features, and in a section entitled “Master Class” he offers suggestions for interpretation and specific advice for performing. Berman also corrects for the first time various misprints in published scores and includes a helpful glossary of musical terms.

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When he left Russia following the 1917 Revolution, his diaries were recovered from the family flat in Petrograd and later hidden. The later diaries, written in the West, were brought back by legal decree after the composer’s death, to be kept in a special, closed section of the Russian State Archive. Eventually Prokofiev’s son Sviatoslav was allowed to transcribe the voluminous contents. Volume 1 covers the bulk of Prokofiev’s years at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire ending with his triumphant graduation. Taken as a whole, the Diaries constitute both an indispensable and an entertaining source of reference for all scholars and lovers of Prokofiev’s music.

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Stephanie Jordan's ground-breaking survey and close examination of a range of Stravinsky dances - some familiar, others less so - sheds new, unexpected light upon a composer central to Western artistic tradition and increasingly important to an emerging world culture. Her book, is essential reading for scholars and students in the fields of dance, music and interdisciplinary studies, as well as lay readers interested in the work of one of the twentieth-century's greatest composers.