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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents
In Lieu of Dedication: Fine Friends, Presiding Spirits—László
Somfai, Lyudmila Kovnatskaya, Richard L. Crocker
1. The Many Dangers of Music
LACI RESZE (LACI'S PART)
2. Liszt and Bad Taste
3. Goldmark’s Queen: On Signifiers
4. Why You Cannot Leave Bartók Out
5. Liszt’s Problems, Bartók’s Problems, My Problems
6. Kodály’s Pitiful Lament—and Mine
милина часть (MILA'S PART)
7. Russian Responses to Bach
8. So Much More Than a Composer
9. Rimsky-Korsakov Catches Up
10. Prokofieff’s Problems—and Ours
11. Коле посвящается (for Kolya)
12. In from the Cold
13. Flesh and Blood Juke Box
14. Tales of Push and Pull
15. Was Shostakovich a Martyr, or Is That Just Fiction?
16. How to Win a Stalin Prize: Shostakovich and His Quintet
PARS RICARDI PRIMI (RICARDUS PRIMUS'S PART)
17. Shooting a White Elephant
18. Is This a Thing?
19. Exoticism and Authenticity
20. Pathos Is Banned
21. Everybody Gotta Be Someplace: On Context
22. Alluring Failure, Exhilarating Defeat
23. Envoi: All Was Foreseen; Nothing Was Foreseen
Acknowledgments
Index
