Andrea Olmstead

Vincent Persichetti

Grazioso, Grit, and Gold

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Vincent Persichetti: Grazioso, Grit, and Gold is the first critical biography of the esteemed American composer, bringing together scholarly work and short contributed essays of prominent performers. Andrea Olmstead weaves a captivating narrative of the composer from his early life to his musical activities at Juilliard and death in 1987.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 836g
• ISBN-13: 9781538158241
• ISBN-10: 1538158248
• Artikelnr.: 62597607

Autorenporträt

By Andrea Olmstead

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: 1915-1939
Chapter 1: Early Life and Musical Training
Chapter 2: The Combs Conservatory
Chapter 3: Persichetti as a Student
Chapter 4: Arch Street Church and the Silent Year
Chapter 5: The Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and Paul Nordoff
Chapter 6: Olga Samaroff
Chapter 7: The Philadelphia Orchestra, Stokowski, Ormandy
Chapter 8: Curtis Institute and Reiner
Chapter 9: The "Silent" Decade
Part II: 1938-1962
Chapter 10: Dorothy from Kansas
Chapter 11: Music in 1939 and 1940
Chapter 12: 1941-1943
Chapter 13: Roy Harris Chapter 14: The Philadelphia Conservatory and a
Trial
Chapter 15: William Schuman and Juilliard
Chapter 16: Choral Settings of E. E. Cummings
Chapter 17: The Piano Sonata Period
Chapter 18: Divertimento for Band
Chapter 19: Harmonium
Chapter 20: 1952-1953
Chapter 21: The Schuman Book
Chapter 22: Hymns and Responses for the Church Year
Chapter 23: Symphony for Band
Chapter 24: The Year of the Song
Chapter 25: Seventh Symphony
Chapter 26: Mass
Chapter 27: Twentieth-Century Harmony
Part III: 1962-1987
Chapter 28: Peter Mennin and Lincoln Center
Chapter 29: Religious Music
Chapter 30: Masquerade
Chapter 31: The Choral(e) Years, 1966-1969
Chapter 32: The Creation
Chapter 33: Ninth Symphony
Chapter 34: Parables
Chapter 35: A Lincoln Address
Chapter 36: More Parables
Chapter 37: The Sibyl
Chapter 38: English Horn Concerto
Chapter 39: Mirror Music
Chapter 40: The Harpsichord Period
Chapter 41: 1985-1987
Chapter 42: Death and Posthumous Reputation
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Works
Index
About the Author