Description |
x, 394 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Eastman studies in music,
1071-9989 ;
v. 104
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Eastman studies in music ; v. 104.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Part One : Interviews. Composers : Georges Auric ; Alois Hába ; György Kurtág ; György Ligeti ; Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Conductors : Ernest Bour ; Sir Neville Marriner ; Eugene Ormandy ; Hans Swarowsky ; Iván Fischer and Ádám Fischer -- Instrumentalists : Alfred Brendel ; Yehudi Menuhin ; Isaac Stern ; Tibor Varga -- Singers and a Record Producer : Cathy Berberian ; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Walter Legge -- A Teacher : Nadia Boulanger -- Music Administrators : Sir William Glock ; Wolfgang Stresemann -- Snippets : Claudio Abbado ; Sir Neville Cardus ; Aaron Copland ; Antal Doráti ; Géza Frid ; Sylvia Goldstein ; Ralph Kirkpatrick ; Witold Lutosławski ; Vlado Perlemuter ; Arthur Rubinstein ; György Sándor ; Walter Susskind ; Joseph Szigeti. |
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Part Two : A Memoir. Introduction ; Ancestors ; On Being Jewish ; Growing Up in Postwar Socialist Hungary ; Margit ; Tapespondence ; Birth and Demise of a (Counter) revolution : A Boy's-Eye View ; Broadcasting 1 ; Broadcasting 2 ; Editio Musica Budapest ; Interviewing : An Obsession ; Ich war ein Berliner. |
Summary |
Bálint András Varga makes available here for the first time in English nineteen extended interviews with some of the most notable figures in music from the past fifty years, as well as lively snippets from interviews Varga conducted with thirteen other equally renowned musicians. Of special interest is an interview with the reclusive composer György Kurtág, here published for the first time in any language. From Boulanger to Stockhausen concludes with a poignant memoir by Varga of his experiences growing up in a Jewish family in Hungary during World War II and the early years of Communist rule. Varga's recollections also include details about his many interviews with some of these remarkable musicians, and about his employment at the Hungarian state radio station and then in the music-publishing industry, which brought him to, among other places, Vienna, where he now lives [Publisher description] |
Subject |
Musicians -- Interviews.
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Musicians. |
Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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Subject |
Composers -- Interviews.
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Composers. |
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Varga, Bálint András.
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Varga, Bálint András. |
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Music publishers -- Biography.
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Music publishers. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Interviews.
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ISBN |
9781580464390 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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1580464394 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
Standard No. |
40022949653 |
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