Performing music history : musicians speak first-hand about music history and performance /: musicians speak first-hand about music history and performance. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John C. Tibbetts, Michael Saffle, William A. Everett ; forewords by Emanuel Ax and Lawrence Kramer.
• Editors: Tibbetts, John C; Saffle, Michael, 1946-; Everett, William A, 1962-
• Other Names: Ax, Emanuel author of introduction, etc.; Kramer, Lawrence 1946- author of introduction, etc.
• Contents: Intro; Epigraph; Foreword I; Foreword II; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; "Welcome to the Banquet!"; Medieval and Early Modern Music; Introduction; Benjamin Bagby: "We're Making these Songs Heard Again for the First Time in a Thousand Years!"; William P. Mahrt: "Chant Helps Lift the Heart to God"; Emma Kirkby: "The Eye, The Hand, The Word"; Julian Bream: "I Do Feel that My Consort Helped Get the Early Music Movement Underway"; Judith Malafronte: "My Career has Basically Encompassed Music from Monteverdi to Bach and Handel"; Late Baroque Music; Introduction Rosalyn Tureck: "From Bach My Whole Art Has Grown"Samuel Baron: "Bach's Music Is Language Itself"; John Eliot Gardiner: "Handel Had the Misfortune Never to Have Been Forgotten"; Simon Preston: "Handel Was More a Man of the Theater Who Happened to Write Church Music"; A Clutch of Instruments; Introduction; Anne-Sophie Mutter: "The Greatest Compliment You Could Give Me Is to Have a Great Composer Write a Piece for Me"; Steven Isserlis: "Rather a Lot of 'Cellos"; Eugenia Zukerman: "Good Music Is About Good Breathing, the Starting and Stopping, the Tension and Relaxation" Christopher Parkening: "My Life Is a Constant Process of 'Tuning Up'"Barry Tuckwell: "The Most Outstanding Characteristic of the Horn Is that It Is Capable of Producing a Beautiful Sound"; Iona Brown: "I Direct from the Violin"; Classical and Early Romantic Music; Introduction; Claude Frank: "Good Music Is Always Better Than It Can Be Played!"; Richard Goode: "The Music Was Like a Thunderstorm, and the House Shook!"; Malcolm Bilson: "Mozart Wrote, 'Vienna Is Piano Land!'"; Joshua Rifkin: "One of the Great Agendas of the Romantic Era Was to Rediscover and Reclaim the Past" Paul Badura-Skoda: "The Obligation of an Artist Is to Know that What He Plays Really Represents the Composer's Writing"Brian Newbould: "Have I Represented Schubert's Ideas Fairly?"; Elly Ameling: "There Is so Much You Can Sing by Schumann!"; Thomas Hampson: "There Is a Great Mystery About Schumann's Dichterliebe"; John Nelson: "Berlioz: I Want Berlioz!"; The Romantic Piano; Introduction; Charles Rosen: "During the Romantic Period, Piano Music was the Most Important Music Being Written"; Garrick Ohlsson: "Chopin and Schumann Present a very Interesting Comparison/Contrast Here!" Leslie Howard: "I Think We Have to Get Rid of the Liszt Stereotypes"From Romanticism Toward Modernism; Introduction; Russell Sherman: "Liszt Is a Thoroughly Modern Man ... a Highly Speculative, Philosophical, and Religious Figure"; Tony Palmer: "Wagner's Work Grew Out of What He Perceived as Political Shambles in Germany"; Leif Ove Andsnes: "Grieg Was Restless, Wherever He Was!"; Maureen Forrester: "Mahler Was a Man Who Painted Music"; Mark Markham: "The Music of the French Impressionists Is All About Sound!"
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 781.4309; Music -- Performance -- History; Popular Culture; Music; Theater; Actors; Performing arts; Culture; MUSIC / History & Criticism; Music -- General; Performing Arts -- Theater -- General; Performing Arts -- General; Social Science -- General; Music; Theatre: individual actors & directors; Dance & other performing arts; Cultural studies; Social Science -- Popular Culture; Popular culture; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319924717; 3319924710
• Related ISBNs: 9783319924700; 3319924702
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 08, 2018).
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