Format:
Book
Author(s):
Craft, Robert
Keyword(s):
Music -- History and criticism.
Music
History and criticism
Year:
1974
Pages:
viii, 291, x p. illus. 22 cm.
Publisher:
Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
Publisher location:
New York
Accession number:
749972
Label:
Box 52
Notes:
Prolegomenon : in which I paint myself into a corner -- Letter from Nohant : thoughts, out of season, on Chopin -- Mahler the modern -- Non credo : Mass by Leonard Bernstein -- Pay dirt : notes on the new nudity -- Celestial motions : the city ballet -- The theater : Venice and London -- Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes -- Vera Stravinsky : painter -- Elegy and iambus -- The new music : sound and sense -- A bell for Adorno -- Summer music -- On performing the Bach cantatas -- One man's Mozart -- The true voice of feeling -- Genius into gentleman -- Bellini's boadicea and the boys from Newark -- Glinka's operas -- Pikovaya dama at the Met -- Bizet, Berlioz, and opÈra-comique -- The Ring as houshold ornament -- The Ring : thoughts on the final operas -- Oui, j'aime Brahms -- Brahms : a "reproach to the haste of a superficial generation" -- Toward the flame -- Scriabin centenary -- A Rachmaninoff centenary program -- Virgil Thomson by Virgil Thomson -- Boulez : teacher at the Philharmonic -- Boulez in the lemon and the limelight -- Solti, Chicago, Schoenberg -- Moses and Aaron at the Paris opera -- The boom in Bhoop and other rags -- Music of four African cultures -- Stravinsky's Svadebka : an introduction -- Stravinsky : relevance and problems of biography.
Includes bibliographical references.
Book
Language:
English
Call number:
LC: ML60; Dewey: 780/.8
ISBN:
ISBN: 0394489357; 9780394489353 LCCN: 73-20095
Edition:
[1st ]