Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 624 pages
- Published by: W. W. Norton October 22, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0393330559
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0393330557
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
- Weighs: 2.1 pounds
Product Description
"A splendid read, at once disturbing and illuminating."-Gramophone"An opinionated, stimulating account of how classical music failed to establish fruitful roots in America,"
Classical Music in America chronicles "a cultural attitude that has produced many fine artists and striking moments-but no institutional or intellectual support to sustain them" (
Kirkus Reviews, starred review). "An admirable, scholarly volume" (
Times Literary Supplement), this "formidable bookshows how American classical music became a 'performance culture,' an ersatz-European showplace for celebrity virtuosos, rather than a native-born genre" (
The New Yorker). "As a comprehensive, convincing analysis of the contemporary dilemma" of reconciling European heritage with American vision "and a riveting portrait of the century and a half of events and personalities which brought it about, Horowitz's account would be hard to beat" (
The Economist). "Anyone seeking to understand why American classical music has come to so dead an end-and wondering how it might yet escape a final descent into cultural irrelevance-should read
Classical Music in America with close attention" (
Commentary). With a new afterword.
About The Author
Joseph Horowitz is the award-winning author of books on the American musical experience and is widely regarded as the leading historian of American concert life. He lives in
New York City and currently serves as an artistic adviser for half a dozen American orchestras.
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