A windfall of musicians : Hitler's émigrés and exiles in southern California / by Crawford, Dorothy L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Otto Klemperer and the Los Angeles Philharmonic -- Performers, and Klemperer's return -- Innovative teachers in the performing arts -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Ernst Toch -- European composers in the "picture business" -- Issues of identity: Ernst Krenek, Eric Zeisl, and Ingolf Dahl -- Stravinsky in Hollywood.…”
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Twelve-tone music in America / by Straus, Joseph Nathan

Table of Contents: “…"Ultramodern" composers : Adolph Weiss, Wallingford Riegger, Carl Ruggles, and Ruth Crawford Seeger ; European immigrants : Arnold Schoenberg, Ernst Krenek, Igor Stavinsky, and Stefan Wolpe ; Postwar pioneers : Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, George Perle, Aaron Copland, and Roger Sessions ; An older generation : composers born before 1920 : Ben Weber, George Rochberg, Ross Lee Finney, Barbara Pentland, and Roque Cordero ; Some serial neoclassicists, tonalists, jazzers, and minimalists : Arthur Berger, Irving Fine, Louise Talma, Samuel Barber, Gunther Schuller, Hale Smith, and Michael Torke ; A middle generation : composers born between 1920 and 1940 : Charles Wuorinen, Donald Martino, Ralph Shapey, Ursula Mamlok, Peter Westergaard, leonard Rosenman, and Mel Powell ; A younger generation : composers born after 1940 : Joseph Schwantner, Robert Morris, Peter Lieberson, Andrew Mead, and Jeff Nichols -- Part two. …”

Begin again : a biography of John Cage / by Silverman, Kenneth

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The roaring silence : John Cage, a life / by Revill, David, 1965-

Lou Harrison / by Miller, Leta E.

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I Sang the Unsingable : My Life in Twentieth-Century Music. by Beardslee, Bethany

Table of Contents: “…18 1955 and Pierrot lunaire: A Tumultuous Year19 Camera Concerts with Stanley Seeger; Part Three: Godfrey (1956-62); 20 A Season of Change: Summer 1956; 21 Godfrey Winham; 22 London; 23 New York Pro Musica: 1958; 24 The Fromm Music Foundation; 25 Earl Kim and Russell Sherman; 26 Working with Martha Graham; 27 Threni and the Altenberg Lieder; 28 Princeton and Saskatoon; 29 The Russian Delegation; 30 Recordings with Robert Craft; 31 To Prove My Love; 32 Baird and Christopher Winham: Life in Princeton; 33 Das Buch der hängenden Gärten: Opus 15 by Arnold Schoenberg; Part Four: New Music (1963-75).…”
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Marc Blitzstein : his life, his work, his world / by Pollack, Howard

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Lou Harrison : American musical maverick / by Alves, Bill, Campbell, Brett, 1967-

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Music in the USA : a documentary companion /

Table of Contents: “…The American period of Arnold Schoenberg / (Sessions, Newlin) -- 95. Uncle Dave Macon, banjo trickster at the Grand Ole Opry -- 96. …”

Music in the USA : a documentary companion /

Table of Contents: “…The American period of Arnold Schoenberg / (Sessions, Newlin) -- 95. Uncle Dave Macon, banjo trickster at the Grand Ole Opry -- 96. …”
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