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Music after modernism / Samuel Lipman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lipman, Samuel
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Basic Books, ©1979.
Subjects:	Music > 20th century > History and criticism. Music. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Preface : the need for revaluation
The holy family of Bayreuth
Wagner on Broadway
Schoenberg's survival
The stature of Stravinsky
Copland as American composer
The Mahler everyone loves
And still Rachmaninoff
Yesterday's new music
The Lhevinnes : four hands at one piano
Horowitz : king of pianists
Menuhin : portrait of a prodigy
The performer's predicament
In the matter of interpretation
Does performance matter?
The rise of modernist taste : Ezra Pound
Both sides of the record
The prodigy in old age
The dubious art of contests
Summing up : a tour d'horizon.