Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Lourié
- Editor: Móricz, Klára
- Editor: Morrison, Simon
Elegantly organized and written, and thoroughly researched, this volume is an invaluable contribution to scholarship on twentiethcentury music and twentieth-century Russian culture in general,... — More…
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Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction:
- End Games and Funeral Games
- By Klara Moricz
- Chapter 1
- Arthur Lourie: A Biographical Sketch
- By Olesya Bobrik, translated by Klara Moricz and Simon Morrison
- Chapter 2:
- Turania Revisited, with Lourie My Guide
- By Richard Taruskin
- Chapter 3:
- Koussevitzky's Ghostwriter
- By Simon Morrison
- Chapter 4:
- Retrieving What Time Destroys: The Palimpsest of Lourie's The Blackamoor of Peter the Great
- Appendix A: Excerpt from Scene 1, Gossip
- Appendix B: Scene 3, Les Adieux
- By Klara Moricz
- Chapter 5:
- Jacques Maritain and the Catholic Muse in Lourie's Post-Petersburg Worlds
- By Caryl Emerson
- Epilogue:
- The Silver Age and Tinseltown
- By Simon Morrison