The 11 chapters in this volume explore major issues surrounding the piano, its performers and music within an expanded geographical context created by the spread of the instrument and the growth of concert touring.
David Tudor is remembered today as an extraordinary pianist of post-war avant-garde music who worked closely with composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and as a founding figure of live-electronic music. His bold reinterpretation of Cage's Variations II and his idios…
"David Tudor is remembered today as an extraordinary pianist of post-war avant-garde music who worked closely with composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and as a founding figure of live-electronic music. His bold reinterpretation of Cage's Variations II and his idio…
"David Tudor is remembered today as an extraordinary pianist of post-war avant-garde music who worked closely with composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and as a founding figure of live-electronic music. His bold reinterpretation of Cage's Variations II and his idio…
"Quoted here is one of over 300 letters in the correspondence between Malcolm Frager and Max Rudolf covering the period from April 1982 to September 1991. This collection reveals the range of musical discourse between two functioning geniuses whose whole lives were devoted to mu…
"Quoted here is one of over 300 letters in the correspondence between Malcolm Frager and Max Rudolf covering the period from April 1982 to September 1991. This collection reveals the range of musical discourse between two functioning geniuses whose whole lives were devoted to mu…
The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life.
"The first full biography of the fearless Maria Yudina, a brilliant pianist who was central to intellectual life in Soviet Russia. Maria Yudina was no ordinary musician. A pianist with an enormous following, she lived on the fringes of Soviet society and developed close friendsh…
The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life.
The author relates the remarkable story of his pianist mother and her sister, child prodigies who escaped certain death when the Nazis invaded Ukraine, adopted new identities, and came under the protection of a Nazi commander who heard them play.
The author relates the remarkable story of his pianist mother and her sister, child prodigies who escaped certain death when the Nazis invaded Ukraine, adopted new identities, and came under the protection of a Nazi commander who heard them play.
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Henry Day, a boy stolen by changelings at the age of seven, and the look-alike hobgoblin sent to replace him, both grow up feeling out of place in their respective worlds--and their search for answers about their pasts puts them on a collision course decades later.
Stolen from his family by changelings, Henry Day is given the name "Aniday" by the ageless and magical beings, who replace him with another child who takes his place with his parents, a young boy who possesses an extraordinary gift of music.
Stolen by changelings from his family and home, Henry Day is given the name Aniday by the ageless and magical beings, who replace him with another child who takes his place with his parents, a young boy who possesses an extraordinary gift of music but whom is haunted by persiste…