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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe essays herein should appeal to a wide range of readers from the informed concert-goer who enjoys vocal music to conservatory students to the professoriate who will appreciate the exemplary scholarly apparatus. The editors are to be commended for a fine compilation that will pique interest in discovering or re-visiting the wide range of German song repertoire and the acclaimed artists who presented these cultural offerings to the world.
-- Barry Zaslow * Music Reference Services Quarterly *
This volume offers a multifaceted overview of the rich history of German song, and challenges contemporary performers and audiences, like Janus with a wide angle lens, to look at the totality oflieder's history to determine performance practice. It is highly recommended.
-- Debra Greschner * Journal of Singing *
The editors are to be commended for a fine compilation that will pique interest in discovering or re-visiting the wide range of German song repertoire and the acclaimed artists who presented these cultural offerings to the world.
-- Barry Zaslow - Miami University * Music Reference Services Quarterly *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Restaging German Song / Laura Tunbridge
1. "Eine wahre Olla Patrida [sic]:" Anna Milder-Hauptmann, Schubert, and Programming the Orient / Susan Youens
2. Song in Concert as Observed by the Schumanns: Toward the Personalization of the Public Stage / Benjamin Binder
3. From Miscellanies to Musical Works: Julius Stockhausen, Clara Schumann and Dichterliebe / Natasha Loges
4. Natalia Macfarren and the English German Lied / Katy Hamilton
5. "For Any Ordinary Performer It Would Be Absurd, Ridiculous or Offensive": Performing Lieder Cycles on the American Stage / Heather Platt
6. The Concert Hall as a Gender-Neutral Space: The Case of Amalie Joachim, née Schneeweiss / Beatrix Borchard, Translated by Jeremy Coleman
7. Nikolai Medtner: Championing the German Lied and Russian Spirit / Maria Razumovskaya
8. From the Benefit Concert to the Solo Song Recital in London, 1870–1914 / Simon McVeigh and William Weber
9. German Song and the Working Classes in Berlin, 1890–1914 / Wiebke Rademacher
10. Lilli Lehmann's Dedicated Lieder Recitals / Rosamund Cole
11. "Eine Reihe bunter Zauberbilder": Thomas Mann, Hans Pfitzner, and the Politics of Song Accompaniment / Nicholas Attfield
12. Performers' Reflections / Natasha Loges and Laura Tunbridge
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