Orpheus in Manhattan [electronic resource] : William Schuman and the shaping of America's musical life / Steve Swayne.

Orpheus in Manhattan [electronic resource] : William Schuman and the shaping of America's musical life / Steve Swayne.

9780199792566 (electronic bk.)
9780195388527

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

English

1 online resource (xv, 692 pages) : illustrations

ML410.S386 S93 2011eb

780.92 B

The musical landscape of New York City and the United States of America would look quite different had it not been for William Schuman. Orpheus in Manhattan, a fully objective and comprehensive biography of Schuman, portrays a man who had a profound influence upon the artistic and political institutions of his day and beyond. Steve Swayne draws heavily upon Schuman's letters, writings, and manuscripts as well as unprecedented access to archival recordings and previously unknown correspondence. The winner of the first Pulitzer Prize in Music, Schuman composed music that is rhythmically febrile, harmonically pungent, melodically long-breathed, and timbrally brilliant, and Swayne offers an astute analysis of his work, including many unpublished music scores. Swayne also describes Schuman's role as president of the Juilliard School of Music and of Lincoln Center, tracing how he both expanded the boundaries of music education and championed the performing arts. Filled with new discoveries and revisions of the received historical narrative, Orpheus in Manhattan confirms Schuman as a major figure in America's musical life [Publisher description]

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