Browse: Eastman Studies in Music (series)

Fascinating, detailed, and absorbing. Chris Walton has done a superb job in creating the illusion that this volume was written in English. Detailed footnotes are included as well as a number... — American Record Guide More…

Excellent scholarship; highly recommended for all academic collections — Choice More…

The list of those who owed much to [the Princesse de Polignac] is simply breathtaking. . . . This biography by Sylvia Kahan [now available . . . in paperback] is easy to read as an adventure... — Gramophone Magazine More…

This very interesting book primarily relates the early partnership of Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins. I enjoyed Redfern's...discussion of the staging and choreography of the various shows.... — American Record Guide More…

A rare example of a book devoted entirely to a single, recent composition. . . . Show[s] how Carter manages to create a reliably functioning mechanism more than equal to the demands he makes... — Musical Times More…

Deserves a warm welcome from anybody with an interest in the emergence of 'serious' Broadway shows after the Second World War. Weill's fundamental role in this is explored thoroughly, and the... — Gramophone Magazine More…

Offers informed, trenchant assessments of important Met stagings. . . . Especially insightful about the work of regional companies. . . . Martin's effort combines a critic's eye, a scholar's... — Opera News More…

These wide-ranging essays [are drawn] from a lifetime of thinking and teaching about all music, [including] John Cage, Milton Babbitt, [and] 'the confluence between Western art music and ethnomusicology.'.... — Choice More…