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Samuel Barber
His Life and Legacy
Buch von Howard Pollack
Sprache: Englisch

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"A pivotal twentieth-century composer, Samuel Barber earned a long list of honors and accolades that included two Pulitzer Prizes for Music and the public support of figures like Serge Koussevitzky and Marian Anderson. Barber's works have since became standard in concert repertoire and continue to flourish across high art and popular culture. Acclaimed biographer Howard Pollack (George Gershwin, Aaron Copland) offers a multifaceted account of Barber's life and music while placing the artist in his social and cultural milieu. Born into a musical extended family, Barber pursued his ambitions from childhood. Pollack follows Barber's path from his precocious youth and training through a career where, from the start, the composer consistently received prizes, fellowships, and other recognition. Stylistic analyses of works like Adagio for Strings, the Second Symphony, the opera Vanessa, and Piano Concerto No. 1 stand alongside revealing accounts of the music's commissioning, performance, reception, and legacy. Throughout, Pollack weaves in accounts of Barber's encounters with musical contemporaries like Leonard Bernstein and Dmitri Mitropoulos, performers from Eleanor Steber and Leontyne Price to Vladimir Horowitz, patrons, admirers, and a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in and out of the arts. He also provides an eloquent portrait of the composer's decades-long relationship with, and break from, Gian Carlo Menotti. Informed by new interviews and immense archival research, Samuel Barber is the long-awaited critical and personal biography of a monumental figure in twentieth-century American music"--
"A pivotal twentieth-century composer, Samuel Barber earned a long list of honors and accolades that included two Pulitzer Prizes for Music and the public support of figures like Serge Koussevitzky and Marian Anderson. Barber's works have since became standard in concert repertoire and continue to flourish across high art and popular culture. Acclaimed biographer Howard Pollack (George Gershwin, Aaron Copland) offers a multifaceted account of Barber's life and music while placing the artist in his social and cultural milieu. Born into a musical extended family, Barber pursued his ambitions from childhood. Pollack follows Barber's path from his precocious youth and training through a career where, from the start, the composer consistently received prizes, fellowships, and other recognition. Stylistic analyses of works like Adagio for Strings, the Second Symphony, the opera Vanessa, and Piano Concerto No. 1 stand alongside revealing accounts of the music's commissioning, performance, reception, and legacy. Throughout, Pollack weaves in accounts of Barber's encounters with musical contemporaries like Leonard Bernstein and Dmitri Mitropoulos, performers from Eleanor Steber and Leontyne Price to Vladimir Horowitz, patrons, admirers, and a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in and out of the arts. He also provides an eloquent portrait of the composer's decades-long relationship with, and break from, Gian Carlo Menotti. Informed by new interviews and immense archival research, Samuel Barber is the long-awaited critical and personal biography of a monumental figure in twentieth-century American music"--
Über den Autor
Howard Pollack is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music at the University of Houston. His books include Aaron Copland: The Life and of an Uncommon Man,George Gershwin: His Life and Work, and Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
  1. Samuel Barber and His Family
  2. A Musical Education
  3. Personal Matters: Early Years
  4. Other Formative Experiences
  5. Early Works Through 1932
  6. More Adventures at Home and Abroad, 1933-1939
  7. Music for a Scene from Shelley and One Day of Spring
  8. Songs and Choruses, 1934-1940
  9. The First Symphony and the String Quartet
  10. Adagio for Strings and the First Essay
  11. The Violin Concerto and Second Essay
  12. In the Army
  13. The Second Symphony and Excursions
  14. Capricorn Concerto and the Cello Concerto
  15. Barber and His Contemporaries
  16. Medea
  17. Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and “Nuvoletta”
  18. The Piano Sonata and Mélodies passagères
  19. Personal Matters: Later Years
  20. A Composer’s Life
  21. Souvenirs and Hermit Songs
  22. Prayers of Kierkegaard, Adventure, and Summer Music
  23. Vanessa
  24. From the Nocturne to Die Natali
  25. The Piano Concerto and Andromache’s Farewell
  26. The Creation of Antony and Cleopatra
  27. Antony and Cleopatra in Performance
  28. From Chorale for Ascension Day to The Lovers
  29. From Fadograph of a Yestern Scene to the Canzonetta
Epilogue and Conclusion

Notes

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Allg. Handbücher & Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780252044908
ISBN-10: 0252044908
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Pollack, Howard
Hersteller: University of Illinois Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 238 x 161 x 52 mm
Von/Mit: Howard Pollack
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.04.2023
Gewicht: 1,418 kg
Artikel-ID: 125008263
Über den Autor
Howard Pollack is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music at the University of Houston. His books include Aaron Copland: The Life and of an Uncommon Man,George Gershwin: His Life and Work, and Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
  1. Samuel Barber and His Family
  2. A Musical Education
  3. Personal Matters: Early Years
  4. Other Formative Experiences
  5. Early Works Through 1932
  6. More Adventures at Home and Abroad, 1933-1939
  7. Music for a Scene from Shelley and One Day of Spring
  8. Songs and Choruses, 1934-1940
  9. The First Symphony and the String Quartet
  10. Adagio for Strings and the First Essay
  11. The Violin Concerto and Second Essay
  12. In the Army
  13. The Second Symphony and Excursions
  14. Capricorn Concerto and the Cello Concerto
  15. Barber and His Contemporaries
  16. Medea
  17. Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and “Nuvoletta”
  18. The Piano Sonata and Mélodies passagères
  19. Personal Matters: Later Years
  20. A Composer’s Life
  21. Souvenirs and Hermit Songs
  22. Prayers of Kierkegaard, Adventure, and Summer Music
  23. Vanessa
  24. From the Nocturne to Die Natali
  25. The Piano Concerto and Andromache’s Farewell
  26. The Creation of Antony and Cleopatra
  27. Antony and Cleopatra in Performance
  28. From Chorale for Ascension Day to The Lovers
  29. From Fadograph of a Yestern Scene to the Canzonetta
Epilogue and Conclusion

Notes

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Allg. Handbücher & Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780252044908
ISBN-10: 0252044908
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Pollack, Howard
Hersteller: University of Illinois Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 238 x 161 x 52 mm
Von/Mit: Howard Pollack
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.04.2023
Gewicht: 1,418 kg
Artikel-ID: 125008263
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