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Title: First Nights: Five Musical Premiers by Thomas Forrest Kelly ISBN: 0-300-09105-2 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Coffee Table Book You Should Actually Read
Comment: It's easy as a listener to get caught up in the impact of great music on us today and to ignore the people who brought it about in the first place. Kelly has done a wonderful job of enlightening and enlivening my experience of these five works, four of which I've spent a lot of time with over the years. He brings together stories on the composition, the cultural setting, and the nuts and bolts of putting on the first performances in a way that both academics and popular readers will appreciate.
Rating: 5
Summary: New Insights into Old Favorites
Comment: This book brings together an extraordinary amount of interesting information about 5 of the greatest works of Western music, in the context of trying to recreate their first performances. Kelly writes with the interest of an enthusiast, but the scholarly background is immense, as befits a university press book. Plenty of interesting illustrations and diagrams, and interesting pull-quotes in boxes, break up the text, enhancing readability. I had not previously been aware that the version heard at the first concert of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique was subjected to significant rewriting before being published in the form performed today -- this is typical of the interesting insights the book adds to common knowledge. Also, that Berlioz changed the selection of wind instruments, but that one can hear many of the originals on some recent recordings. My only disappointment was that Kelly stopped at 5 works - I would love a similar work-up of first performances of the Wagner Ring Cycle, Mozart's Figaro, and a major work of Mahler - perhaps the first performance of the 8th Symphony. I guess that just means that Kelly might profitably prepare a sequel!
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Title: Dvorak in America: In Search of the World by Joseph Horowitz ISBN: 0812626818 Publisher: Cricket Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Classical Music Without Fear: A Guide for General Audiences by Marianne Williams Tobias ISBN: 0253216184 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination by Maynard Solomon ISBN: 0520237463 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith ISBN: 0471078646 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 17 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff ISBN: 0393322564 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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