Title:
For the love of music : invitations to listening / Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe.
Author:
Steinberg, Michael, 1928-2009.
Rothe, Larry.
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Call Number:
ML160 .S84 2006
Abstract:
Presents a personal celebration of the power and appeal of classical music, based on a lifetime of listening to and writing about music, and reflects on the meaning of music for both those who make it and those who enjoy it.
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ISBN:
9780195162165
9780195370201
Physical Description:
xiii, 251 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Beginnings. How I fell in love with music ; Preliminary : the professor's legacy -- Creators. Another word for Mozart ; Thinking of Robert Schumann ; The sacred, the profane, and the gritty affirmations of music ; Franz Schubert, a rich possession ; Encountering Brahms ; Schoenberg, Brahms, and the great tradition ; First-rate second-class composer ; Sibelius and Mahler : what more could there be? ; Remembering Rachmaninoff ; Erich Wolfgang Korngold : a meditation ; Tchaikovsky's Mozart (and others) ; On the trail of W.A. Mozart ; What they saw ; A short life of J.S. Bach ; Stravinsky's ear-stretching, joy-giving legacy -- The recent scene. A visit with Lou Harrison ; George Perle : composing a way of life ; A quintet for American music ; Three American composers in pursuit of the white whale ; A century set to music -- Missionaries. Making America musical : a salute to Theodore Thomas ; Sigmund Spaeth, someone you should know ; Isaac Stern on music and life ; B.H. Haggin the contrarian -- Affairs to remember. Loving memories of movie music ; Vienna trilogy : vignettes from the city of music ; Music, true or false ; Why we are here -- Postlude. The sounds we make.
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