Award-winning music historian Howard Pollack's new biography of Marc Blitzstein deftly captures the fascinating life and career of an American composer who was openly gay and ...

Walter Piston (1894-1976) taught for over thirty years (1926-1960) at Harvard, where he taught such well-known composers as Harold Shapiro and Leonard Bernstein. The ...

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This text reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment - as his life and work shift from the realm of personal memory to that of history ...

A mine of information for both general and specialist readers about the life and work of one of America's greatest composers.

This comprehensive biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937) unravels the myths surrounding one of America's most celebrated composers and establishes the enduring value of his ...

This is the first single-volume publication of the out-of-print original and revised versions of a unique jazz pantomime, arranged for piano. Based on the comic strip Krazy Kat ...

Born into a poor Virginian family, John Treville Latouche (1914-56), in his short life, made a profound mark on America's musical theater as a lyricist, book writer, and ...

Appendix (p. 97-116): I. List of works.-II. List of records.-III. Articles and books by Aaron Copland.-IV. Selected bibliogrphy of articles on and references to Aaron Copland.