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The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
$39.95 U.S. per copy |
Edited by Don Michael Randel An incomparable guide brings together all the pertinent biographical information about composers, performers, music theorists, and instrument makers from the days of praise chants to the bop and pop of today. This biographical dictionary emphasizes classical and art music, but also gives ample attention to jazz, blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages, with unusual care devoted to coverage of the twentieth century. This volume summarizes the lives and careers behind the music enjoyed in every era, enlivened with illustrations, some revelations in themselves. |
| Conducting demands profound musical sense,
exhaustive study, and unbending integrity. Almost
more important, a conductor's overriding concern must be
to present a composer's full work faithfully, accurately
and with the utmost respect and care. Schuller compares hundreds of recordings and performances with the original scores of these eight majors compositions: Beethoven - Symphonies 5 & 7 THE COMPLEAT CONDUCTOR throws down the gauntlet to conductors worldwide, and is a controversial look at the music world that will be the focus of debate for years to come. |
The Compleat ConductorGunther Schuller THE COMPLEAT CONDUCTOR by Gunther Schuller is a highly provocative critique of modern conducting - " the most demanding, musically all embracing and complex" task in the field of musical performance.
$49.95 U.S. per copy |
Who Killed Classical Music?Norman Lebrecht WHO KILLED CLASSICAL MUSIC is a start-to-finish history of the classical music business, its heroes, villains, lions and legends.
$24.95 U.S. per copy |
Controversial, polemical, and rich with inside
information, this is the successor to the author's widely
acclaimed volume, THE MAESTRO MYTH, in which the author
illuminated the hidden crisis in the conducting
profession. In the past classical music and opera were developed by family firms and small entrepreneurs. However, in the closing years of the 20th century commercialism has radically transformed these arts, effectively destroying a structure that dates back as far as Bach and Handel. The author details the past and current situation with classical music, highlighting the forces behind the careers of Pavarotti, Bernstein, record producer Walter Legge and many other key players in the classical music industry. |
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