Music from the road : views and reviews, 1978-1992 / Tim Page.

Author/creator Page, Tim, 1954-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Descriptionxviii, 268 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Music--20th century. --History and criticism.
Musicians--Interviews.
Music--Reviews.

Contents Views. -- Marin Alsop -- A Conversation with Milton Babbitt -- Maria Bachmann: The Making of a Musician -- Leonard Bernstein at 70 -- Leonard Bernstein: In Memoriam -- A Conversation with John Cage -- Van Cliburn -- Christoph von Dohnanyi -- Matthew Epstein -- Geraldine Farrar -- A Conversation with Philip Glass and Steve Reich -- Philip Glass -- Glenn Gould: A Reminiscence -- Glenn Gould: The Piano Quarterly Interview -- Mieczyslaw Horszowski -- Christopher Keene -- Maurizio Pollini -- Steve Reich -- Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg -- Leonard Slatkin -- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich -- Reviews. -- The Complete Works of Anton Webern Conducted by Pierre Boulez -- Tunnel Hum -- A Suzuki Orchestra -- "Postcard" from Juilliard -- A Visit to California -- John Cage at Barnard -- Bach and the Rodents -- The Return of Conlon Nancarrow -- Robert Taub Plays Babbitt -- "Bleecker Street" in Charleston -- Pavarotti at the Garden.
Abstract Since his debut fourteen years ago, Tim Page has established himself as one of our most original and perceptive music critics, and one of the very few to maintain a serious involvement with the music of our own time. Gathering many of Page's liveliest articles and interviews, Music from the Road introduces a remarkable critical sensibility to a wider audience while offering thought-provoking new perspectives on composers, performers, and trends that dominate the current scene. Page covers a characteristically wide range of topics, from Irving Berlin's complex sweetness to Milton Babbitt's elegant ferocity, from Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg's wild-woman glamour to Mitsuko Uchida's infinitely articulated restraint, from Pavarotti at the Garden to Sweeney Todd in the opera house. Special highlights are two moving profiles of Leonard Bernstein, a revealing survey of musical prodigies, a trenchant discussion of opera fanatics, and Page's famous Piano Quarterly interview with Glenn Gould. Other interviews offer surprising insights into the thought and works of Babbitt, John Gage, and, in a remarkable joint interview, Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Balancing an intimate knowledge of the music with an eternal capacity for being surprised, Page is an ideal guide to the new, the old, and the radically unexpected.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 91024134
ISBN0195073150 (acid-free paper) :

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML60 .P142 1992 ✔ Available Place Hold