{"product_id":"rachmaninoff-and-his-world-the-bard-music-festival-9780226823751","title":"Rachmaninoff and His World The Bard Music","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA biography of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.     One of the most popular classical composers of all time, Sergei Rachmaninoff (18731943) has often been dismissed by critics as a conservative, nostalgic holdover of the nineteenth century and a composer fundamentally hostile to musical modernism. The original essays collected here show how he was more responsive to aspects of contemporary musical life than is often thought, and how his deeply felt sense of Russianness coexisted with an appreciation of American and European culture. In particular, the essays document his involvement with intellectual and artistic circles in prerevolutionary Moscow and how the form of modernity they promoted shaped his early output. This volume represents one of the first serious explorations of Rachmaninoff's successful career as a composer, pianist, and conductor, first in late Imperial Russia, and then after emigration in both the United States an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e             Philip Ross Bullock\u003cbr\u003e Permissions and Credits\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliteration and Dating\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e MOSCOW AND MODERNITY\u003cbr\u003e Reading the Popular Pessimist: Thought, Feeling, and Dance in Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Narrative\u003cbr\u003e             Peter Franklin\u003cbr\u003e Sergei Rachmaninoff and Moscow Musical Life\u003cbr\u003e             Rebecca Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e Love Triumphant: Rachmaninoff’s Eros, the Silver Age, and the Middlebrow\u003cbr\u003e             Marina Frolova-Walker\u003cbr\u003e Rachmaninoff and the “Vocalise”: Word and Music in the Russian Silver Age\u003cbr\u003e             Philip Ross Bullock\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THREE OPERAS\u003cbr\u003e Tchaikovsky’s Echoes, Chaliapin’s Sobs: \u003ci\u003eAleko\u003c\/i\u003e, Rachmaninoff, and the Contemporary\u003cbr\u003e             Emily Frey\u003cbr\u003e Rachmaninoff’s \u003ci\u003eMiserly Knight\u003c\/i\u003e (On Money, Honor, and the Means to Create)\u003cbr\u003e             Caryl Emerson\u003cbr\u003e Burning for You: Rachmaninoff’s \u003ci\u003eFrancesca da Rimini\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e             Simon Morrison\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e NEW WORLDS\u003cbr\u003e Rachmaninoff and the Celebrity Interview: A Selection of Documents from the American Press\u003cbr\u003e             Selected and Edited by Philip Ross Bullock\u003cbr\u003e The Eighteenth Variation\u003cbr\u003e             Steve Swayne\u003cbr\u003e “One of the Outstanding Musical Events of All Time”: The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 1939 Rachmaninoff Cycle\u003cbr\u003e             Christopher H. Gibbs\u003cbr\u003e “The Case of Rachmaninoff”: The Music of a White Emigré in the USSR\u003cbr\u003e             Marina Raku, translated by Jonathan Walker\u003cbr\u003e Aesthetic Ambition and Popular Taste: The Divergent Paths of Paderewski, Busoni, and Rachmaninoff\u003cbr\u003e             Leon Botstein\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Notes on the Contributors","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732929130839,"sku":"9780226823751","price":26.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226823751.jpg?v=1719998990","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rachmaninoff-and-his-world-the-bard-music-festival-9780226823751","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}