Pollack Howard Pollack

Samuel Barber (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A pivotal twentieth-century composer, Samuel Barber earned a long list of honors and accolades that included two Pulitzer Prizes for Music and the public support of conductors like Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitzky, and Leonard Bernstein. Barber's works have since become standard concert repertoire and continue to flourish across high art and popular culture. Acclaimed biographer Howard Pollack (Aaron Copland, George Gershwin) offers a multifaceted account of Barber's life and music while placing the artist in his social and cultural milieu. Born into a musical family, Barber pursued his artistic ambitions from childhood. Pollack follows Barber's path from his precocious youth through a career where, from the start, the composer consistently received prizes, fellowships, and other recognition. Stylistic analyses of works like the Adagio for Strings, the Violin Concerto, Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for voice and orchestra, the Piano Concerto, and the operas Vanessa and Antony and Cleopatra, stand alongside revealing accounts of the music's commissioning, performance, reception, and legacy. Throughout, Pollack weaves in accounts of Barber's encounters with colleagues like Aaron Copland and Francis Poulenc, performers from Eleanor Steber and Leontyne Price to Vladimir Horowitz and Van Cliburn, patrons, admirers, and a wide circle of eminent friends and acquaintances. He also provides an eloquent portrait of the composer's decades-long relationship with the renowned opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti.Informed by new interviews and immense archival research, Samuel Barber is a long-awaited critical and personal biography of a monumental figure in twentieth-century American music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 744
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780252054051
• Artikelnr.: 68954380

Autorenporträt

Howard Pollack is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music at the University of Houston. His books include Aaron Copland: The Life and of an Uncommon Man,George Gershwin: His Life and Work, and Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Samuel Barber and His Family
2. A Musical Education
3. Personal Matters: Early Years
4. Other Formative Experiences
5. Early Works Through 1932
6. More Adventures at Home and Abroad, 1933-1939
7. Music for a Scene from Shelley and One Day of Spring
8. Songs and Choruses, 1934-1940
9. The First Symphony and the String Quartet
10. Adagio for Strings and the First Essay
11. The Violin Concerto and Second Essay
12. In the Army
13. The Second Symphony and Excursions
14. Capricorn Concerto and the Cello Concerto
15. Barber and His Contemporaries
16. Medea
17. Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and “Nuvoletta”
18. The Piano Sonata and Mélodies passagères
19. Personal Matters: Later Years
20. A Composer’s Life
21. Souvenirs and Hermit Songs
22. Prayers of Kierkegaard, Adventure, and Summer Music
23. Vanessa
24. From the Nocturne to Die Natali
25. The Piano Concerto and Andromache’s Farewell
26. The Creation of Antony and Cleopatra
27. Antony and Cleopatra in Performance
28. From Chorale for Ascension Day to The Lovers
29. From Fadograph of a Yestern Scene to the Canzonetta
Epilogue and Conclusion
Notes
Index