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In the Lions’ Den
In the Lions’ Den
This chapter details Edna Phillips' appointment as a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Phillips entered the Philadelphia Orchestra as its only woman in 1930. Having chosen the ...
William Grant Still
William Grant Still
Presenting the life and professional career of The Dean of Afro-American Composers, this is the first comprehensive book on the writings by and about Still, the compositions with m...
Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and Max Reinhardt’s Concept of Massenregie
Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and Max Reinhardt’s Concept of Massenregie
Two weeks after the premiere of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, Max Reinhardt produced Hofmannsthal’s adaption of Sophocles’ King Ödipus (in some respects an aesthetic counterpart to Mah...
Mahler and the Myth of the Total Symphony
Mahler and the Myth of the Total Symphony
French film critic Bazin takes the ‘myth of total cinema’ to reveal a picture of its real history and sketches phases of a dialectical history based on it. Bazin’s conceptual frame...
Die Meistersinger in Mahler’s Seventh Symphony
Die Meistersinger in Mahler’s Seventh Symphony
The Seventh Symphony has a particular way of alluding to the past, and the reminiscence of Wagner’s Meistersinger in its Finale—noted by many commentators—is the clearest sign of t...
The British symphony orchestra and the Arts Council of Great Britain
The British symphony orchestra and the Arts Council of Great Britain
This chapter explores the relationship between British symphony orchestras and the Arts Council of Great Britain. Combining archival research with institutional sociology and cultu...
Golden Years of the National Symphony Orchestra
Golden Years of the National Symphony Orchestra
Golden Years of the National Symphony Orchestra: Stories and Photographs of Musicians and Maestros presents a rich and intimate perspective of the orchestra as it evolved in promin...