Monarch of the flute
Subtitle: the life of Georges Barrère
By: Nancy Toff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Subjects: Barrère, Georges, -- 1876-1944; Flute players
Description: "Georges Barrere (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that were written for him - the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varese - he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States and set a new standard for American woodwind performance."

"Barrere's story is a musical tale of two cities, and this book will use his life as a window onto musical life in Belle Epoque Paris and twentieth-century New York. Recurrent themes are the interactions of composers and performers; the promotion of new music; the management, personnel, and repertoire of symphony orchestras; the economic and social status of the orchestral and solo musician, including the increasing power of musicians' unions; the role of patronage, particularly women patrons; and the growth of chamber music as a professional performance medium."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-420) and index
Table of contents: title: The fifer, 1876-93; title: The faun, 1893-95; title: The jeune école, 1895-98; title: Fin de siècle, 1898-99; title: 1900 : in the vanguard of progress; title: The new century, 1901-05; title: 1905 : enter Walter Damrosch; title: The world of the Damrosch brothers, 1905-09; title: "A musical envoy from France," 1909-12; title: Yankee entrepreneur, 1912-15; title: Alliances Françaises, 1915-17; title: Over here, 1917-18; title: "The world's greatest flutist," 1918-21; title: "Pan himself," 1921-26; title: "The Casals of the flute," 1926-28; title: Jubilee, 1928-30; title: "I heard the great Barrère," 1931-36; title: "The last word in chamber music," 1936-40; title: "The last survivor," 1940-44; title: Epilogue : monarch of the flute