Malcolm Hamrick Brown

A Shostakovich Casebook

Herausgeber: Brown, Malcolm Hamrick

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A volume of essential reading and scholarship in Russian music studies that brings together 25 essays, interviews, newspaper articles, and reviews.

Produktdetails

• Russian Music Studies
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9780253218230
• ISBN-10: 0253218233
• Artikelnr.: 22398178

Autorenporträt

Malcolm Hamrick Brown, a world-renowned authority on Russian and Soviet music, is the founding editor of the Russian Music Studies series at Indiana University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preliminary Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration and on Translation
Introduction
Part I.
1.        Shostakovich versus Volkov: Whose Testimony? (1980)
                Laurel E. Fay
2.        Volkov's Testimony Reconsidered (2002)
                Laurel E. Fay
Part II.
3.        A Side-By-Side Comparison of Texts from Testimony With Their
Original Sources
4.        A Pitiful Forgery: About the So-Called "Memoirs" of D. D.
Shostakovich (1979)
                (A letter to the editor of the newspaper Literaturnaia
gazeta)
5.        The Bedbug (1979)
                (An editorial published in the newspaper Literaturnaia
gazeta) (1979)
6.        The Official Dossier (1979)
                (A news item published in the newspaper Literaturnaia
gazeta)
7.        Notes from the Soviet Archives on Volkov's Testimony (1995)
                Alla Bogdanova
8.        An Episode in the Life of a Book: An Interview with Henry Orlov
(2000)
                Ludmila Kovnatskaya
9.        An Answer to Those Who Still Abuse Shostakovich (2000)
                Irina Shostakovich
10.        On Solomon Volkov and Testimony (1988; 1997)
                Boris Tishchenko
11.        The Regime and Vulgarity (1999)
                Elena Basner
12.        Shostakovich's World is Our World (1998)
                Mistislav Rostropovich Talks With Manashir Yakubov
13.        Shostakovich Remembered: Interviews With His Soviet Colleagues
(1992)
        Irina Nikolskaya
Part III.
14.        A Link in the Chain: Reflections on Shostakovich and His Times
(1976)
                Henry Orlov
15.        A Perspective on Soviet Musical Culture During the Lifetime of
Shostakovich
        (1998)
                Levon Hakobian
16.        The Latest "New Shostakovich" (2000)
                Levon Hakobian
17.        Dialogues About Shostakovich: From the History of Russian
Studies About Shostakovich (2002)
                Ludmila Kovnatskaya
Part IV.
18.        Ian MacDonald's The New Shostakovich (1993)
                Malcolm Hamrick Brown
19.        Elizabeth Wilson's Shostakovich: A Life Remembered (1996)
                Malcolm Hamrick Brown
20.        A Response to Papers by Allan Ho and Dmitri Feofanov (1998)
                David Fanning
21.        Whose Shostakovich? (2000)
                Gerard McBurney
22.        The Shostakovich Variations (2000)
                Paul Mitchinson
23.        Shostakovich: A Brief Encounter and a Present Perspective (1996;
2002)
                Malcolm Hamrick Brown        
24.        Laurel Fay's Shostakovich: A Life (2000)
                Simon Morrison
25.        When Serious Music Mattered (2001)
                Richard Taruskin
Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors
List of Contributors:
ELENA VENIAMINOVNA BASNER, daughter of composer Veniamin Basner, one of
Shostakovich's most trusted friends
ALLA VLADIMIROVNA BOGDANOVA has published a number of books in Russian on
the music of Shostakovich
MALCOLM HAMRICK BROWN is founding editor of the scholarly series Russian
Music Studies
DAVID FANNING is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Manchester.
LAUREL E. FAY's scholarly biography, Shostakovich: A Life (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2000), received the Otto Kinkeldey Award in 2001 from the
American Musicological Society
LEVON HAKOBIAN (in Russia, LEV OGANESOVICH AKOPIAN) holds a position as
Senior Research Fellow at the Russian State Institute for Art Studies in
Moscow
LUDMILA GRIGORIEVNA KOVNATSKAYA teaches at the Rimsky-Korsakov State
Conservatory in St. Petersburg and holds the title, Senior Research Fellow
at the Russian Institute of Fine Arts History, St. Petersburg
GERARD MCBURNEY composes, arranges, teaches, and writes about music
PAUL MITCHINSON is a Canadian writer and historian
SIMON MORRISON teaches music history at Princeton
IRINA NIKOLAEVNA NIKOLSKAYA specializes in twentieth-century Polish music
HENRY ORLOV (GENRIKH ALEKSANDROVICH ORLOV) formerly served as Senior
Research Fellow at the Leningrad State Scientific Research Institute for
Theater, Music, and Film
IRINA ANTONOVNA SHOSTAKOVICH (née SUPINSKAYA), Shostakovich's third wife
RICHARD TARUSKIN, recognized internationally for his scholarship on Russian
music BORIS IVANOVICH TISHCHENKO, noted Russian composer
MANASHIR ABRAMOVICH YAKUBOV, Curator of the Shostakovich Family Archive in
Moscow