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The John Adams Reader Essential Writings on an American Composer by Thomas May Amadeus Press $27.95 (£15.17 equivalent) 352 pp ISBN: 1574671324 To purchase this book from Amazon, click here now. 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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Boosey & Hawkes: The Publishing Story by Helen Wallace RRP £12.99 ISBN 978-0-85162-514-0 Click here to purchase this book Rather than wage a price war, Leslie Boosey and Ralph Hawkes chose to |
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Elgar the Music Maker by Diana McVeagh Boydell & Brewer £16.99 (hardcover) 978 1 184383 295 9 Click here to purchase this book from Amazon 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.
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Musiktheater im Exil der NS-Zeit Bericht über die internationale Konferenz am Musikwissenschaftlichen Institut der Universität Hamburg 3. bis 5. Februar 2005. Peter Petersen & Claudia Maurer Zenck ed. ISBN 978-3-932696-68-8, 424pp, 48 EUR contains article by Barbara Busch: "Kurt Jooss und Berthold Goldschmidt im englischen Exil. Auf den Spuren eines verloren geglaubten Werkes: Chronika" Available from www.bockelverlag.de > Further information on Berthold Goldschmidt |
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Écrits d'André Jolivet ed. Christine Jolivet-Erlih en 2 Volumes Éditions Delatour France 52,00 EUR 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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Sergey Prokofiev Diaries 1907-1914 by Sergey Prokofieff transl. Anthony Phillips Faber & Faber £25.00 To purchase this book from Amazon, click here now 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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Sergej Rachmaninow Leben und Werk (1873–1943) by Ewald Reder (Triga Verlag) 3rd enlarged ed. 2007, 602 pp., EUR 26.00 To purchase this book from Amazon, click here now > Further information on Sergei Rachmaninoff |
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GÜNTER STEINKE. Texte und Essays ed. Stefan Drees 978-3-89727-363-4, 102 pp, Pb, EUR 15.00 Available at www.pfau-verlag.de > Further information on Günter Steinke |
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Picasso and the Theater ed. Olivier Berggruen / Max Hollein Hatje Cantz EUR 39.80 To purchase this book from Amazon, click here now Picasso's involvement with the performing arts is like a thread running through nearly his entire oeuvre. This books documents the exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and concentrates on the period from 1900 to 1926, focussing the artist's collaboration with Diaghilev's "Ballets Russes" and with composers like Stravinsky and others. > Further information on Igor Stravinsky |
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These landmark vocal publications, for high voice and medium/low voice, collect together 61 of Britten's folksong arrangements. There are suitable transpositions to fit the voice ranges, and piano transcriptions of the songs with guitar.
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