Tim Page on music : views and reviews / by Tim Page ; foreword by Anthony Tommasini.
| Author/creator | Page, Tim, 1954- |
| Other author | Tommasini, Anthony, 1948- writer of foreword. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Portland, OR : Amadeus Press, 2002. |
| Description | 363 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Views. Kathleen Battle: a lament -- The Cleveland Orchestra -- Van Clibrun -- Placido Domingo -- Leon Fleisher -- Glenn Gould in retrospect -- Jascha Heifetz -- Philippe Herreweghe -- Michael Hersch -- The High Llamas -- Vladimir Horowitz: a dissent -- Lang Lang -- Mario Lanza -- Otto Leuning: in memoriam -- Ward Marston -- Bobby McFerrin -- The loyal listener: Elizabeth Mensh -- Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields -- Olivier Messiaen: in memoriam -- Midori at 21 -- The National Symphony Orchestra in Europe -- The ordeal of Kevin Oldham -- Samuel Ramey -- Arthur Rubinstein -- Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg -- Esa-Pekka Salonen -- Robert Shaw: the last interview -- The resurrection of Sibelius -- Frank Sinatra -- Michael Tilson Thomas -- Dawn Upshaw -- Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) -- Webern after Webernism -- Reviews. Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio -- Chou Wen-Chung -- Luciano Pavarotti in Central Park -- Georg Solti -- The Deep Listening Band -- Andrew Lloyd Webber -- Labor Day with the National Symphony Orchestra -- The Philadelphia Orchestra plays Bruckner -- A Vietnam Oratorio -- John Cage's Europera 5 -- The Klezmer revival -- David Helfgott -- Alfred Brendel -- Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina -- La Rondine at the Washington Opera -- Paul Dresher -- Ned Rorem's masterpiece -- Andrea Boccelli -- Evgeny Kissin -- A Streetcar Named Desire -- George Gershwin at 100 -- Yo-Yo Ma in contemporary music -- Postscripts. Radical music that will remain that way -- The end of the classical dinosaurs -- Pittsburgh's dumbing down -- The pops perplex -- National anthems I have known -- When good art happens to bad people -- A plea for the solitary cheer -- Boom boxes in Willimantic -- Singing walls. |
| Abstract | "From the beginning, it was my intention to infuse some of the passion, allusiveness, and occasional irreverence found in the best writing about jazz and rock into the realm of classical music criticism," the author writes in the preface to this seminal collection of his music and cultural criticism. In sixty-five perceptive pieces, including some of the work that earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1997, the author offers what he calls "a collection of illumined moments," now gathered in a single volume for the wider audience who will treasure their insight, wit, and wisdom. The author is tremendously versatile, a musical polymath in his interests and understanding. This collection includes both short pieces and longer articles, some about unique souls whom the author knew well and admired, including Glenn Gould and Otto Luening, and others about whom he feels strongly in other ways, among them Vladimir Horowitz. He takes readers along for closeup glimpses at Midori, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Dawn Upshaw, and Bobby McFerrin, as well as Frank Sinatra and Captain Beefheart, to name just a few. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2002066534 |
| ISBN | 157467076X |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML60 .P143 2002 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |