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Understanding Toscanini: A Social History of American Concert Life

Joseph Horowitz - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 532 pages
As America's symbol of Great Music, Arturo Toscanini and the "masterpieces" he served were regarded with religious awe. As a celebrity personality, he was heralded for ...
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An Intimate Portrait of Sidney Foster: Pianist... Mentor

Imelda Delgado - Biography & Autobiography - 2013 - 162 pages
The great American pianist Sidney Foster is remembered here by a former student for his outstanding ability and generous character. This book includes commentary by numerous ...
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Classical Music In America: A History Of Its Rise And Fall

Joseph Horowitz - History - 2005 - 664 pages
An award-winning scholar and leading authority on American symphonic culture argues that classical music in the United States is peculiarly performance-driven, and he traces a ...
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Liszt: A Listener's Guide to His Piano Works

John Bell Young, Claudio Arrau - Music - 2009 - 172 pages
Franz Liszt was one of the most awe-inspiring figures in all of music history. As a composer, he was experimental and inventive, pushing the boundaries of form and harmony. As ...
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Wagner Nights: An American History

Joseph Horowitz - Music - 1998 - 420 pages
As never before or since, Richard Wagner's name dominated American music-making at the close of the nineteenth century. Europe, too, was obsessed with Wagner, but--as Joseph ...
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Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution ...

Joseph Horowitz - History - 2009 - 480 pages
During the first half of the twentieth century—decades of war and revolution in Europe—an "intellectual migration" relocated thousands of artists and thinkers to the United ...
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Moral Fire: Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle

Joseph Horowitz - Music - 2012 - 270 pages
Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met’s screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling ...
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"On My Way": The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and ...

Joseph Horowitz - Music - 2013 - 304 pages
A revelatory history of the operatic masterpiece that both made and destroyed Rouben Mamoulian, its director and unsung hero. "Bring my goat!" Porgy exclaims in the final scene ...
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