{"product_id":"music-and-more-essays-19681991-9780810110762","title":"Music and More Essays 19681991","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Lipman's essays passionately defend high culture against what he sees as its growing banalization and politicization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1 Composers: music and Mao; why Kurt Weill?; American music - the years of hope; Lenny on our minds; Hugo Weisgall's six characters; a new look at Prokofiev. Part 2 Pianists: Rubinstein the great entertainer; Bartok at the piano; Keith Jarrett joins the Bach parade; the pupils of Clara Schumann and the uses of tradition; does the piano have a future? Part 3 Conductors: Willem Mengelberg at the Philharmonic; Pierre Monteux's success; Toscanini and the love of great music; Roger Norrington and authentic performance. Part 4 Critics and writers: James William Davison of \"\"The (London) Times\"\"; James Huneker and America's musical coming-of-age; Edward Said, music critic; but if the artist fails? Part 5 Culture and society: Ivy Litvinov - the commissar's wife; the muse under Mussolini; say \"\"no\"\" to trash - Mapplethorpe and the nea; opera and politics; backward and downward with the arts.","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038243520855,"sku":"9780810110762","price":15.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/music-and-more-essays-19681991-9780810110762","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}