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  • The Disciple

    A Wagnerian Tale of the Gilded Age

    by Joseph Horowitz ...
    Cloaked in mystery, Anton Seidl materialized in the New World as Wagner's personal emissary. A sorcerer, he commanded musical New York and toured widely, everywhere received with awed deference. In Brooklyn, Laura Langford's Seidl Society presented summertime Seidl concerts on Coney Island fourteen times weekly. Working women arrived in special railroad cars; Black orphans were regaled with roast ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Propaganda of Freedom

    JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War

    by Joseph Horowitz ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitalityEloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock assumption of the Cold War. That this conviction defied centuries of historical evidence--to say nothing of achievements within the Soviet Union--failed to impact impregnable cultural Cold War doctrine ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Dvorak's Prophecy

    And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music

    by Joseph Horowitz ...
    **A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it.**In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvorák prophesied a “great and noble school” of American classical music based on the “negro melodies” he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • "On My Way"

    The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess

    by Joseph Horowitz ...
    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 of Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess. Bess, whom he loves, has left for New York City, and he’s determined to find her. When his request is met with astonishment—New York is a great distance from South Carolina’s Catfish Row ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • Artists in Exile

    How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts

    by Joseph Horowitz ...
    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 States, including some of Europe's supreme performing artists, filmmakers, playwrights, and choreographers. For them, America proved to be both a strange and opportune destination. A "foreign homeland" (Thomas Mann), it would ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Moral Fire

    Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle

    by Joseph Horowitz ...
    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. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • For The Love of Music

    Invitations to Listening

    by Michael Steinberg, Larry Rothe ...
    The power of music, the way it works on the mind and heart, remains an enticing mystery. Now two noted writers on classical music, Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe, explore the allure of this melodious art--not in the clinical terms of social scientists--but through stories drawn from their own experience. In For the Love of Music, Steinberg and Rothe draw on a lifetime of listening to, living ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Rest Is Noise

    Listening to the Twentieth Century

    by Alex Ross ...
    **Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the YearTime magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007A Washington Post Book World** Best Book of 2007In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its m... ... Read more

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  • The Ninth

    Beethoven and the World in 1824

    by Harvey Sachs ...
    The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and joy was so unorthodox that it amazed and confused listeners at its ... Read more

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  • The First Four Notes

    Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination

    by Matthew Guerrieri ...
    A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012A New Yorker Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the YearA unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last two hundred years.Music ... Read more

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  • A Natural History of the Piano

    The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between

    by Stuart Isacoff ...
    A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own.With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad ... Read more

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  • Reinventing Bach

    The Search for Transcendence in Sound

    by Paul Elie ...
    The story of a revolution in music and technology, told through a century of recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian BachIn Reinventing Bach, his remarkable second book, Paul Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives ... Read more

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