Lennox Berkeley and friends : writings, letters and interviews / by Berkeley, Lennox, 1903-1989

Table of Contents: “…Reports from Paris, 1929-34 -- Letters to Nadia Boulanger, 1929-74 -- Selections from Berkeley's later writings and talks, 1943-82 -- Interviews with Berkeley, 1973-8 -- Extracts from Berkeley's diaries, 1966-82 -- Interviews with performers, composers, family, and friends, 1990-91 -- Memorial address by Sir John Manduell.…”
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Composers' voices from Ives to Ellington : an oral history of American music / by Perlis, Vivian

Table of Contents: “…Leo Ornstein ; Edgard Varèse ; Carl Ruggles ; Dane Rudhyar ; Charles Seeger ; Henry Cowell -- On the jazz age and George Gershwin -- With a French accent: Nadia Boulanger -- From the Boulangerie. Virgil Thomson ; Aaron Copland ; Roy Harris -- Exploring the world of Duke Ellington.…”

Composers voices from Ives to Ellington : an oral history of American music / by Perlis, Vivian, Van Cleve, Libby

Table of Contents: “…Leo Ornstein ; Edgard Varèse ; Carl Ruggles ; Dane Rudhyar ; Charles Seeger ; Henry Cowell -- On the jazz age and George Gershwin -- With a French accent : Nadia Boulanger -- From the Boulangerie. Virgil Thomson ; Aaron Copland ; Roy Harris -- Exploring the world of Duke Ellington.…”
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Lennox Berkeley and friends : writings, letters and interviews / by Berkeley, Lennox, 1903-1989

Table of Contents: “…Reports from Paris, 1929-34 -- pt. II. Letters to Nadia Boulanger, 1929-74 -- pt. III. Selections from Berkeley's later writings and talks, 1943-82 -- pt. …”
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Lives of the musicians : good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought) / by Krull, Kathleen

Table of Contents: “…The red priest: Antonio Vivaldi -- Twenty children and 1,200 compositions: Johann Sebastian Bach -- No ordinary baby: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Moodiness and moonlight: Ludwig van Beethoven -- "My dear corpse": Frédéric Chopin -- A successful farmer and opera-composer: Giuseppe Verdi -- A different white dress every night: Clara Schumann -- Dear friends and gentle hearts: Stephen Foster -- The checked cotton underwear of Johannes Brahms -- Pulsing and quivering: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky -- Topsy-turvydom: William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan -- Velvet gentleman: Erik Satie -- The entertainer: Scott Joplin -- He stretched our ears: Charles Ives -- Standing on his head: Igor Stravinsky -- Tender Tyrant: Nadia Boulanger -- Full of splinters: Sergei Prokofiev -- "Great, isn't it?"…”

Ralph Kirkpatrick : letters of the American harpsichordist and scholar / by Kirkpatrick, Ralph

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: "The Glowing of Such Fire"-A Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick / [by Eliot Fisk] -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Family. 1 Selected Letters to Family -- Part Two: Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence; 2 Nadia Boulanger; 3 Alexander Mackay-Smith; 4 Wanda Landowska; 5 John Challis; 6 Serge Koussevitzky; 7 Oliver Strunk; 8 Roger Sessions; 9 Harold Spivacke; 10 Steinway & Sons; 11 New York Times; 12 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge; 13 John Kirkpatrick; 14 Alexander Schneider; 15 Otto Luening; 16 Donald Boalch; 17 John Hamilton; 18 Thornton Wilder; 19 Lincoln Kirstein; 20 Arthur Mendel; 21 Edward Steuremann; 22 Frank Martin; 23 Olin Downes; 24 Albert Fuller; 25 Elliott Carter; 26 Quincy Porter; 27 Vincent Persichetti; 28 Henry Cowell; 29 Mel Powell; 30 Bengt Hambraeus; 31 Alec Hodson; 32 Paul Fromm; 33 Wolfgang Zuckermann; 34 Kenneth Gilbert; 35 Mr. and Mrs. …”
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Ralph Kirkpatrick : letters of the American harpsichordist and scholar / by Kirkpatrick, Ralph

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: "The Glowing of Such Fire"-A Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick / [by Eliot Fisk] -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Family. 1 Selected Letters to Family -- Part Two: Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence; 2 Nadia Boulanger; 3 Alexander Mackay-Smith; 4 Wanda Landowska; 5 John Challis; 6 Serge Koussevitzky; 7 Oliver Strunk; 8 Roger Sessions; 9 Harold Spivacke; 10 Steinway & Sons; 11 New York Times; 12 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge; 13 John Kirkpatrick; 14 Alexander Schneider; 15 Otto Luening; 16 Donald Boalch; 17 John Hamilton; 18 Thornton Wilder; 19 Lincoln Kirstein; 20 Arthur Mendel; 21 Edward Steuremann; 22 Frank Martin; 23 Olin Downes; 24 Albert Fuller; 25 Elliott Carter; 26 Quincy Porter; 27 Vincent Persichetti; 28 Henry Cowell; 29 Mel Powell; 30 Bengt Hambraeus; 31 Alec Hodson; 32 Paul Fromm; 33 Wolfgang Zuckermann; 34 Kenneth Gilbert; 35 Mr. and Mrs. …”
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From Boulanger to Stockhausen : interviews and a memoir / by Varga, Bálint András

Table of Contents: “…Composers : Georges Auric ; Alois Hába ; György Kurtág ; György Ligeti ; Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Conductors : Ernest Bour ; Sir Neville Marriner ; Eugene Ormandy ; Hans Swarowsky ; Iván Fischer and Ádám Fischer -- Instrumentalists : Alfred Brendel ; Yehudi Menuhin ; Isaac Stern ; Tibor Varga -- Singers and a record producer : Cathy Berberian ; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Walter Legge -- A teacher : Nadia Boulanger -- Music administrators : Sir William Glock ; Wolfgang Stresemann -- Snippets : Claudio Abbado ; Sir Neville Cardus ; Aaron Copland ; Antal Doráti ; Géza Frid ; Sylvia Goldstein ; Ralph Kirkpatrick ; Witold Lutosławski ; Vlado Perlemuter ; Arthur Rubinstein ; György Sándor ; Walter Susskind ; Joseph Szigeti.…”
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Jean-Phillipe Rameau [Operatic excerpts] by Rameau, Jean Philippe, 1683-1764

Piano recital.

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Unheard of : memoirs of a Canadian composer / by Beckwith, John, 1927-

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The business of music /

Table of Contents: “…A Venetian operatic contract of 1714 / Michael Talbot -- What choirs also sang : aspects of provincial music publishing in late-nineteenth-century England / Judith Blezzard -- The modernisation of London concert life around 1900 / Simon McVeigh, Cyril Ehrlich -- Debussy, Durand et Cie : a French composer and his publisher (1884-1917) / Robert Orledge -- Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) : the teacher in the marketplace / Caroline Potter -- Copyright as a component of the music industry / Dave Laing -- Illegality and the music industry / Simon Frith -- The tarnished image? …”
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Conversations with Joseph Flummerfelt : thoughts on conducting, music, and musicians / by Flummerfelt, Joseph

Extraordinary women in support of music / by Mender, Mona, 1926-2012

Table of Contents: “…A brief history -- Ladies of the great salons: Aspasia ; Isabella d'Este ; Lucrezia Borgia ; Diane de Poitiers ; Marquise de Rambouillet ; Queen Christina of Sweden ; Ninon de Lenclos ; Claudine de Tencin ; Marie du Deffand ; Misia Sert ; Coco Chanel ; Princesse de Polignac ; Comtesse de Polignac ; Gertrude Stein -- Elegant patronesses of the old world: Eleanor of Acquitaine ; Catherine de Medicis ; Queen Elizabeth I ; Empress Maria Theresa ; Madame de Pompadour ; Nadezhda von Meck ; Queen Elisabeth of Belgium ; Bathsabee de Rothschild -- Wives and lovers: George Sand ; Clara Schumann ; Cosima Wagner ; Sara Bull ; Alma Mahler ; Olga Koussevitzky ; Aniela Rubinstein ; Galina Rostropovich ; Felicia Bernstein ; Martita Casals -- Inspired teachers: Isabella Vengerova ; Rosina Lhevinne ; Estelle Liebling ; Olga Samaroff ; Nadia Boulanger ; Dorothy DeLay ; Helen Coates ; Phillis Curtin.…”

Carter / by Schiff, David

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Music criticism in France, 1918-1939 : authority, advocacy, legacy /

Table of Contents: “…Kelly -- Arthur Honegger: Music Critic for Musique et Théâtre (1925-1926) / Pascal Lécroart -- A Woman's Critical Voice: Nadia Boulanger and Le Monde musical, 1919-1923 / Kimberly Francis -- From a Foreign Correspondent: the Parisian Chronicles of Alejo Carpentier / Caroline Rae -- Debussy's 'Reputational Entrepreneurs': Vuillermoz, Koechlin, Laloy, and Vallas / Marianne Wheeldon -- The Legacy of War: Conceptualising Wartime Musical Life in the Post-War Musical Press, 1919-1920 / Rachel Moore -- Satie, Relâche and the Press: Controversies and Legacy / Jacinthe Harbec -- Creating a Canon: Émile Vuillermoz's Musiques d'aujourd'hui and French Musical Modernity / Danick Trottier.…”
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Elliott Carter / by Wierzbicki, James Eugene

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Rhoda Scott & the Ladies All Star /

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Vistas of American music : essays and compositions in honor of William K. Kearns /

Table of Contents: “…Schmidt: the publisher and his American composers / Wilma Reid Cipolla -- Abigail Stone, Act I, scene one / Randall Shinn -- Community theater, Caliban by the yellow sands, and Arthur Farwell / John Graziano -- The Musical Quarterly and American music / Karl Kroeger -- Musical emissary in America: Nadia Boulanger, Normand Lockwood, and American musical pedagogy / Kay Norton -- Nocturne / Richard Toensing -- Old World origins of the Matachines dance / Brenda M. …”

From Boulanger to Stockhausen : interviews and a memoir / by Varga, Bálint András

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