Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music
- Author: Sachs, Joel
gorgeously written ... each page seemingly revealing a nugget of information that history was hitherto reluctant to divulge —
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Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I -- Child to Man
- Chapter 1: Clarissa and Harry
- Chapter 2: Henry
- Chapter 3: Years of Voyage
- Chapter 4: The Turning Point
- Chapter 5: The Expanding Circle
- Chapter 6: Bi-Coastal Life
- Chapter 6: Genesis of a Theoretical System
- Chapter 8: War
- Chapter 9: The Selling of Henry
- Part II -- International Ultramodernist Virtuoso
- Chapter 10: Henry at 25
- Olive
- Chapter 11: Conquering Europe, First Attempt (1923)
- Chapter 12: Attacking the American Market
- Chapter 13: Theories, Rationales, Defenses
- Chapter 14: Europe Again (1926)
- Chapter 15: Making It in America, II
- Chapter 16: Europe, Third Act (1929)
- Chapter 17: Delivering the Baby -- New Musical Resources
- Chapter 18: New Projects and old, 1929-1931
- Part III -- The Frenetic Years
- Chapter 19: Europe, IV
- Chapter 20: American Interlude
- Chapter 21: Europe, V
- Chapter 22: The End of Virtuosity
- Chapter 23: The New Technology -- the Rhythmicon
- Chapter 24: The New Technology -- Recording
- Chapter 25: The New Technology -- Radio
- Chapter 26: The New Technology -- Film
- Chapter 27: International Exchange Concerts
- Chapter 28: Death of the PAAC
- Chapter 29: Surveying American Music
- Chapter 30: Surveying the Larger Musical World
- Chapter 31: Dance
- Chapter 32: Propagating World Music
- Chapter 33: Music and Politics
- Chapter 34: Henry and his Colleagues
- Chapter 35: New Friends, Character Studies
- Chapter 36: Old Friends and a Doomed Romance
- Chapter 37: Fincancing a Life
- Chapter 38: Compositions
- Chapter 39: Henry at Thirty-Nine
- Part IV -- Four Endless Years
- Chapter 40: Life Stops
- Chapter 41: The Hearing
- Chapter 42: Arriving and Adjusting
- Chapter 43: Waiting
- Chapter 44: The Second Day of Reckoning
- Chapter 45: Living With It
- Chapter 46: Living With It (continued)
- Chapter 47: The Melody Book
- Chapter 48: More Ideas
- Chapter 49: Toward the Exit
- Part V - Life Resumes
- Chapter 50: The First Six Months
- Chapter 51: Turning Point
- Chapter 52: Problem Solved
- Chapter 53: A Job at Last
- Chapter 54: End of an Era
- Chapter 55: The War Effort
- Chapter 56: Old Friendships Renewed
- Chapter 57: Simplicity and Commentary
- Chapter 58: Figs
- Chapter 59: A Settled Life
- Chapter 60: Creations and Collaboration
- Chapter 61: Europe, VI
- Part VI -- World Traveler
- Chapter 62: The Big Trip, I
- Chapter 63: The Big Trip, II
- Chapter 64: Iran, I
- Chapter 65: India, I
- Chapter 66: Iran, II
- Chapter 67: Change of Plans
- Chapter 68: A New Radicalism
- Chapter 69: Asia Again
- Chapter 70: 1961-63
- Chapter 71: The Honored Citizen
- Chapter 72: The Cold War
- Chapter 73: Last Ideas
- Chapter 74: 1963-4
- Chapter 75: The Final Chapter
- Chapter 76: Who Was Henry?
- Postlude
- Notes
- Bibliography