"Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Prelim. p Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Et in arcadia ego, or, I didn't know I was such a pessimist until I wrote this thing Only time will cover the taint "Nationalism" : colonialism in disguise? Why do they all hate Horowitz? Optimism amid the rubble A survivor from the teutonic train wreck Does nature call the tune? Two stabs at the universe. Away with the Ives myth : the "universe" is here at last ; Out of hibernation : Ives's mythical beast In search of the "good" Hindemith legacy Six times six: a Bach suite selection A Beethoven season? Dispelling the contagious Wagnerian mist How talented composers become useless Making a stand against sterility A sturdy musical bridge to the twenty-first century Calling all pundits : no more predictions! In the Rake's progress, love conquers all, almost Markevitch as Icarus Let's rescue poor Schumann from his rescuers Early music: truly old-fashioned at last? Bartâok and Stravinsky: odd couple reunited? Wagner's antichrist crashes a pagan party A surrealist composer comes to the rescue of modernism Corraling a herd of musical mavericks Can we give poor Orff a pass at last? Music's dangers and the case for control Ezra Pound: a slim sound claim to musical immortality Underneath the dissonance beat a Brahmsian heart Enter Boris Goudenow, just 295 years late For the New Republic, mostly The first modernist The dark side of the moon Of kings and divas The golden age of kitsch No ear for music: the scary purity of John Cage Sacred entertainments The poietic fallacy The musical mystique: defending classical music against its devotees Revising revision Back to whom? Neoclassicism as ideology She do the ring in different voices Stravinsky and us Setting limits
