Leo Ornstein

Author : Michael Broyles,Denise Von Glahn
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253028662

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Leo Ornstein by Michael Broyles,Denise Von Glahn Pdf

Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and critics by decades Leo Ornstein passed away in 2002 at the age of 108. Frequently compared to Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, for a time Ornstein enjoyed a kind a celebrity granted few living musicians. And then he turned his back on it all. This first, full-length biographical study draws upon interviews, journals, and letters from a wide circle of Ornstein's friends and acquaintances to track the Ornstein family as it escaped the horrors of the Russian pogroms, and it situates the Russian-Jewish-American musician as he carved out an identity amidst World War I, the flu pandemic, and the Red Scare. While telling Leo Ornstein's story, the book also illuminates the stories of thousands of immigrants with similar harrowing experiences. It also explores the immeasurable impact of his unexpected marriage in 1918 to Pauline Mallet-Prevost, a Park Avenue debutante. Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices finds Ornstein at the center of several networks that included artists John Marin, William Zorach, Leon Kroll, writers and activists Paul Rosenfeld, Waldo Frank, Edmund Wilson, and Clair Reis, the Stieglitz Circle, and a group of English composers known as the Frankfurt Five. Ornstein's story challenges directly the traditional chronology and narrative regarding musical modernism in America and its close relation to the other arts.

Author : Leo Ornstein
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780895795700

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Quintette for Piano and Strings, Op. 92 by Leo Ornstein Pdf

xxxix + 244 pp.Performances Parts available:MU13P (vn. 1, vn. 2, va., vc.), $42.00 per set

Author : Frederick Herman Martens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015007891024

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Leo Ornstein by Frederick Herman Martens Pdf

Author : Frederick Herman Martens
Publisher : New York : Breitkopf & Hartel, Incorporated
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Composers
ISBN : HARVARD:32044041096991

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Leo Ornstein, the Man - His Ideas - His Work by Frederick Herman Martens Pdf

Author : Günter Berghaus,Monica Jansen,Luca Somigli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110752380

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2021 by Günter Berghaus,Monica Jansen,Luca Somigli Pdf

This volume explores the fraught relationship between Futurism and the Sacred. Like many fin-de-siècle intellectuals, the Futurists were fascinated by various forms of esotericism such as theosophy and spiritualism and saw art as a privileged means to access states of being beyond the surface of the mundane world. At the same time, they viewed with suspicion organized religions as social institutions hindering modernization and ironically used their symbols. In Italy, the theorization of "Futurist Sacred Art" in the 1930s began a new period of dialogue between Futurism and the Catholic Church. The essays in the volume span the history of Futurism from 1909 to 1944 and consider its different configurations across different disciplines and geographical locations, from Polish and Spanish literature to Italian art and American music.

Author : Vivian Perlis,Libby Van Cleve
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300138375

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Composers Voices from Ives to Ellington by Vivian Perlis,Libby Van Cleve Pdf

The first opportunity to read--and hear--interviews with and about great American composers and musicians of the early twentieth century.

Author : Carol J. Oja
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 019536323X

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Making Music Modern by Carol J. Oja Pdf

New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and modern music, who along with writers, painters, and jazz musicians, were at the heart of early modernism in America. She also illustrates how the aesthetic attitudes and institutional structures from the 1920s left a deep imprint on the arts over the 20th century. Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Virgil Thomson, William Grant Still, Edgar Var?se, Henry Cowell, Leo Ornstein, Marion Bauer, George Antheil-these were the leaders of a talented new generation of American composers whose efforts made New York City the center of new music in the country. They founded composer societies--such as the International Composers' Guild, the League of Composers, the Pan American Association, and the Copland-Sessions Concerts--to promote the performance of their music, and they nimbly negotiated cultural boundaries, aiming for recognition in Western Europe as much as at home. They showed exceptional skill at marketing their work. Drawing on extensive archival material--including interviews, correspondence, popular periodicals, and little-known music manuscripts--Oja provides a new perspective on the period and a compelling collective portrait of the figures, puncturing many longstanding myths. American composers active in New York during the 1920s are explored in relation to the "Machine Age" and American Dada; the impact of spirituality on American dissonance; the crucial, behind-the-scenes role of women as patrons and promoters of modernist music; cross-currents between jazz and concert music; the critical reception of modernist music (especially in the writings of Carl Van Vechten and Paul Rosenfeld); and the international impulse behind neoclassicism. The book also examines the persistent biases of the time, particularly anti-Semitisim, gender stereotyping, and longstanding racial attitudes.

Author : Michael Broyles
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300127898

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Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music by Michael Broyles Pdf

From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts and about American society itself. Broyles starts by examining the careers of three notably unconventional composers: William Billings in the eighteenth century, Anthony Philip Heinrich in the nineteenth, and Charles Ives in the twentieth. All three had unusual lives, wrote music that many considered incomprehensible, and are now recognized as key figures in the development of American music. Broyles goes on to investigate the proliferation of eccentric individualism in all types of American music—classical, popular, and jazz—and how it has come to dominate the image of diverse creative artists from John Cage to Frank Zappa. The history of the maverick tradition, Broyles shows, has much to tell us about the role of music in American culture and the tension between individualism and community in the American consciousness.

Author : Valerie Langfield
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780851158716

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Roger Quilter by Valerie Langfield Pdf

In the remainder of the book, Valerie Langfield discusses and contextualises all his music: songs, chamber, orchestral and theatre music, and his light opera, Julia, performed at Covent Garden in 1936."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Stephen Schloesser
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802807625

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Visions of Amen by Stephen Schloesser Pdf

French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908 1992) is probably best known for his Quartet for the End of Time, premiered in a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1941. However, Messiaen was a remarkably complex, intelligent person with a sometimes tragic domestic life who composed a wide range of music. This book explores the enormous web of influences in the early part of Messiaen's long life. The first section of the book provides an intellectual biography of Messiaen's early life in order to make his (difficult) music more accessible to the general listener. The second section offers an analysis of and thematic commentaries on Messiaen's pivotal work for two pianos, Visions of Amen, composed in 1943. Schloesser's analysis includes timing indications corresponding to a downloadable performance of the work by accomplished pianists Stphane Lemelin and Hyesook Kim.

Author : Martens Frederick H.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0259626317

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Leo Ornstein by Martens Frederick H. Pdf

Author : Michael Maul,Alberto Nones
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781622738656

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Forms of Performance: From J.S. Bach to M. Alunno (1972-) by Michael Maul,Alberto Nones Pdf

Today, Bach is one of the most revered and studied figures of classical music, despite there being a time in which he was almost forgotten. Divided into two sections, this volume explores research on J.S. Bach and more broadly examines the topics of music and performance studies; with the latter focusing on composers active today, such as Marco Alunno, or those from the recent past who are lesser-known and performed, such as Pietro Cimara and Leo Ornstein. Following from Nones’s (ed.) previous publication Music as Communication: Perspectives on Music, Image and Performance (ABE, 2018), this work provides a rather unique contribution as a choral attempt at exploring performance today. The intention of this book and the downloadable audio content, with live recordings of the music explored at the conference from which the volume originated, is to inspire fresh approaches to the study of a monument like Bach, while also encouraging original research of modern composition and performance. Recordings of the performances given over the two days of the conference serve either to clarify arguments made in the papers or to attest to the music explored more generally. This volume is founded on the belief that the history of music is comprised of many figures, some of whom are undeservedly forgotten, and that our understanding of and approach to music is simultaneously shaped by the past and directed by the continual evolution of sounds and attitudes of the present. Examining music styles from baroque (Bach) to contemporary (Alunno), Forms of Performance will be of particular interest to Bach and performance studies scholars, as well as advanced researchers and PhD students in this field.

Author : Frederick Septimus Kelly
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0642107408

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Race Against Time by Frederick Septimus Kelly Pdf

Frederick Septimus Kelly, pianist, composer, Olympic gold medallist, World War I officer, diarist and Australian, was killed during the final battle of the Somme on 13 November 1916. He was 35. An expatriate long forgotten in his own country, he lived an extraordinary life in the company of some of Europe's most influential people. His diaries, covering the period 1907-1915, are held in the National Library of Australia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101078729801

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Music Trades by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Wyatt,John Andrew Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195327113

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The George Gershwin Reader by Robert Wyatt,John Andrew Johnson Pdf

A collection of articles, biographical reminiscences, reviews, musical analyses, and letters relating to the life and music of George Gershwin.