The New York Composers' Forum Concerts, 1935-1940
Melissa J. de Graaf
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Hardback.
The first detailed narrative of the Composers' Forum, documenting the vast array of composers, musical styles, ideologies, and audience responses in New York in the 1930s. The New York Composers' Forum was a weekly series of new-music concerts sponsored by the Federal Music Project and Works Progress Administration. It showcased the music of modern American composers such as Aaron Copland, Amy Beach, Henry Cowell, and Ruth Crawford Seeger, and included question-and-answer sessions between the composers and audiences. These sessions led to discussions, arguments, and sometimes even riots, all documented in nearly complete transcripts. This book is the first ... Read more
The first detailed narrative of the Composers' Forum, documenting the vast array of composers, musical styles, ideologies, and audience responses in New York in the 1930s. The New York Composers' Forum was a weekly series of new-music concerts sponsored by the Federal Music Project and Works Progress Administration. It showcased the music of modern American composers such as Aaron Copland, Amy Beach, Henry Cowell, and Ruth Crawford Seeger, and included question-and-answer sessions between the composers and audiences. These sessions led to discussions, arguments, and sometimes even riots, all documented in nearly complete transcripts. This book is the first ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781580464260
SKU
V9781580464260
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for The New York Composers' Forum Concerts, 1935-1940
Thoroughly grounded in primary source research, including meticulous work with the Composers' Forum archive. Provides a case study of many intersecting strands of U.S. cultural and political life. . . . [De Graaf's] work offers a model for scholarship and teaching that probes into systems of privilege and oppression [and] invites scholars and teachers to construct courses exploring various musical ... Read more