Bibliograph

Harvard composers, Walter Piston and his students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski, by Howard Pollack

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Harvard composers, Walter Piston and his students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski, by Howard Pollack

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Harvard composers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

25026007

Responsibility statement

by Howard Pollack

Sub title

Walter Piston and his students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski

Table Of Contents

Two American classicists : Walter Piston and James Gould Cozzens -- Songs without words : the orchestral miniatures of Leroy Anderson -- Regional voices : John Vincent and Gail Kubik -- Classicism pursued : Everett Helm and Ellis Kohs -- New forms, new meanings : the music of Arthur Berger -- Expanding the modernist tradition : Elliott Carter and Leonard Bernstein -- Adventures in wonderland : Irving Fine and his music -- A midcentury masterwork : Harold Shapero's Symphony for classical orchestra -- A heritage upheld : Daniel Pinkham -- Favored sons : Robert Middleton and Allen Sapp -- In Bartók's wake : John Bavicchi, Nicholas Van Slyck, and Noël Lee -- The center holding : Gordon Binkerd -- A life in music : the symphonies of Samuel Adler -- "Carter and the postwar composers" revisited : Billy Jim Layton, Yehudi Wyner, and Martin Boykan -- Music with new perspectives : Robert Moevs, Karl Kohn, Claudio Spies, Peter Westergaard, and John MacIvor Perkins -- Four women : Eugenia Frothingham, Victoria Glaser, Betsy Warren and Rosamond Brenner --A new age and a new left : David Behrman and Frederic Rzewski -- The elusive balance : John Harbison -- Conclusion : Walter Piston and his students in widening contexts

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