Maestros of the Pen: A History of Classical Music Criticism in America - Couverture souple

Grant, Mark N.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1555534708 ISBN 13 : 9781555534707

Editeur : Northeastern University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Among the reviewers of the arts, classical music critics are perhaps the least esteemed by those they write about. Yet these often despised beings are also, for better or worse, key players in the world of classical music. This history, in which Mark N. Grant traces the development of music criticism in the United States from the early 19th century to the present, is both a comprehensive portrait gallery of our significant music critics and a study of the evolving role of classical music in American cultural life. Grant's informative overview compares the critics' prose styles, evaluates them as taste makers who helped codify the canon, and shows critics in action as movers and shakers who persuaded community leaders to build concert halls, got conductors hired and fired, explained classical music to the masses on the radio, championed difficult new music, and rescued unjustly neglected repertoire.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mark N. Grant is a composer and writer. His concert music and theater pieces have been performed in the United States and Europe. He also has been a critic and reviewer for such publications as Opera and Ovation. He lives in New York City. Eric Friedheim endowed the annual Friedheim Awards for American composers at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Joumalism Library at the National Press Club. He is the son of pianist Arthur Friedheim (1859-1932), the personal secretary of Franz Liszt. Winner of the ASCAP - Deems Taylor Award

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northeastern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1555534708
• ISBN 13: 9781555534707
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Éditeur: Friedheim Eric
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