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Zajaczkowski provides historical background and discusses the composer's uncertain beginnings, influences on his work, and the impetus from Pushkin, providing a fresh and insightful examination... — Choice More…

it does not dramatize Shostakovich's problems with the bureaucracy but makes clear how those problems affected the composer's life and the creation of his music. . . . Recommended. Upper-division... — Choice More…

Feldman (1926-87) is an indisputably important composer in a radical American empirical tradition extending back through Edgard Varese and Charles Ives... The heart of this collection consists... — Choice More…

The first third of this book provides an overview of the cultural struggles of the Finns to become a nation linguistically and politically separate from the domination of the Russians and the... — Choice More…

Still (1895-1978), 'dean of Afro American composers' and the first African American to conduct a major orchestra in the US, created a distinctive American style in his music by studying the... — Choice More…

Ned Rorem is surely among the most significant writers of music and prose of this age. His work is well served by this welcome addition to Greenwood Press's Bio-Bibliographies in Music' series.... — Choice More…

These volumes should arouse interest in the publication of comprehensive biographies for these and other American composers. They belong in every music library and on the shelves of anyone interested... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…