Prejudices in disguise : articles, essays, reviews / Robert Craft.

Author/creator Craft, Robert
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Alfred A. Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, 1974.
Descriptionviii, 291, x pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Prolegomenon : in which I paint myself into a corner -- Letter from Nohant : thoughts, out of season, on Chopin -- Mahler the modern -- Non credo : Mass by Leonard Bernstein -- Pay dirt : notes on the new nudity -- Celestial motions : the city ballet -- The theater : Venice and London -- Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes -- Vera Stravinsky : painter -- Elegy and iambus -- The new music : sound and sense -- A bell for Adorno -- Summer music -- On performing the Bach cantatas -- One man's Mozart -- The true voice of feeling -- Genius into gentleman -- Bellini's Boadicea and the boys from Newark -- Glinka's operas -- Pikovaya dama at the Met -- Bizet, Berlioz, and opéra-comique -- The Ring as household ornament -- The Ring : thoughts on the final operas -- Oui, j'aime Brahms -- Brahms : a "reproach to the haste of a superficial generation" -- Toward the flame -- Scriabin centenary -- A Rachmaninoff centenary program -- Virgil Thomson by Virgil Thomson -- Boulez : teacher at the Philharmonic -- Boulez in the lemon and the limelight -- Solti, Chicago, Schoenberg -- Moses and Aaron at the Paris opera -- The boom in Bhoop and other rags -- Music of four African cultures -- Stravinsky's Svadebka : an introduction -- Stravinsky : relevance and problems of biography.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 73020095
ISBN0394489357
ISBN9780394489353