American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music
- ISBN-10
- 025320643X
- ISBN-13
- 9780253206435
- Series
- American Composers
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 220
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Author
- Edward Strickland
Description
. . . Strickland's own deep involvement with the works of these composers [is] revealed by the questions and comments he poses in an appreciative, Paterian way. His profound pleasure in these works also leads him to scrutinize and challenge them intimately. --Publishers Weekly This is an indispensable book about American music . . . --Fanfare . . . exhilarating . . . Any of the interviews in American Composers will stimulate your curiosity and appetite. --Hungry Mind Review . . . not only engaging, but also a useful representation of the major compositional styles of the 1980s and their corresponding practitioners. --Notes Philip Glass, Keith Jarrett, Meredith Monk, and eight other active American composers reveal a broad spectrum of musical personalities in these candid, in-depth conversations. Witty and articulate, their remarks convey the great vitality, diversity, and distinctiveness of today's American music.
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