- Summary
- This work gathers two decades of Richard Taruskin's writing on the arts and politics ranging in approach from occasional pieces for major newspapers to full-scale critical essays. It considers contemporary composition and performance, the role of critics and historians in the life of the arts, and much more.
- Other Title
- New York times.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Taruskin, Richard.
- Published
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
©2009
- Contents
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Et in arcadia ego, or, I didn't know I was such a pessimist until I wrote this thing
Only time will cover the taint
"Nationalism" : colonialism in disguise?
Why do they all hate Horowitz?
Optimism amid the rubble
A survivor from the teutonic train wreck
Does nature call the tune?
Two stabs at the universe. Away with the Ives myth : the "universe" is here at last ; Out of hibernation : Ives's mythical beast
In search of the "good" Hindemith legacy
Six times six: a Bach suite selection
A Beethoven season?
Dispelling the contagious Wagnerian mist
How talented composers become useless
Making a stand against sterility
A sturdy musical bridge to the twenty-first century
Calling all pundits : no more predictions!
In the Rake's progress, love conquers all, almost
Markevitch as Icarus
Let's rescue poor Schumann from his rescuers
Early music: truly old-fashioned at last?
Bartók and Stravinsky: odd couple reunited?
Wagner's antichrist crashes a pagan party
A surrealist composer comes to the rescue of modernism
Corraling a herd of musical mavericks
Can we give poor Orff a pass at last?
Music's dangers and the case for control
Ezra Pound: a slim sound claim to musical immortality
Underneath the dissonance beat a Brahmsian heart
Enter Boris Goudenow, just 295 years late
For the New Republic, mostly
The first modernist
The dark side of the moon
Of kings and divas
The golden age of kitsch
No ear for music: the scary purity of John Cage
Sacred entertainments
The poietic fallacy
The musical mystique: defending classical music against its devotees
Revising revision
Back to whom? Neoclassicism as ideology
She do the ring in different voices
Stravinsky and us
Setting limits.
- Notes
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"Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Prelim. p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Et in arcadia ego, or, I didn't know I was such a pessimist until I wrote this thing -- Only time will cover the taint -- "Nationalism" : colonialism in disguise? -- Why do they all hate Horowitz? -- Optimism amid the rubble -- A survivor from the teutonic train wreck -- Does nature call the tune? -- Two stabs at the universe. Away with the Ives myth : the "universe" is here at last ; Out of hibernation : Ives's mythical beast -- In search of the "good" Hindemith legacy -- Six times six: a Bach suite selection -- A Beethoven season? -- Dispelling the contagious Wagnerian mist -- How talented composers become useless -- Making a stand against sterility -- A sturdy musical bridge to the twenty-first century -- Calling all pundits : no more predictions! -- In the Rake's progress, love conquers all, almost -- Markevitch as Icarus -- Let's rescue poor Schumann from his rescuers -- Early music: truly old-fashioned at last? -- Bartók and Stravinsky: odd couple reunited? -- Wagner's antichrist crashes a pagan party -- A surrealist composer comes to the rescue of modernism -- Corraling a herd of musical mavericks -- Can we give poor Orff a pass at last? -- Music's dangers and the case for control -- Ezra Pound: a slim sound claim to musical immortality -- Underneath the dissonance beat a Brahmsian heart -- Enter Boris Goudenow, just 295 years late -- For the New Republic, mostly -- The first modernist -- The dark side of the moon -- Of kings and divas -- The golden age of kitsch -- No ear for music: the scary purity of John Cage -- Sacred entertainments -- The poietic fallacy -- The musical mystique: defending classical music against its devotees -- Revising revision -- Back to whom? Neoclassicism as ideology -- She do the ring in different voices -- Stravinsky and us -- Setting limits.
