His profound pleasure in these works also leads him to scrutinize and challenge them intimately. --Publishers Weekly This is an indispensable book about American music . . . --Fanfare . . . exhilarating . . .
Includes material on Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Henry Dixon Cowell, Paul Creston, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Stephen Collins Foster, George Gershwin, Morton Gould, Charles Griffes, Ferde Grofe,...
The aim of this biographical dictionary is to treat each composer, and particularly those living, in depth; to provide heart, flesh and sinews to the bare bones of biographical information...
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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