From Boulanger to Stockhausen
Subtitle: interviews and a memoir
By: Bálint András Varga
Series: Eastman studies in music; Eastman studies in music -- v. 104.
Publisher: University of Rochester Press; Boydell & Brewer Limited
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781580464390
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Composers; Music publishers; Interviews; Musicians; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one, Interviews. Composers. Georges Auric ; Alois Hába ; György Kurtág ; György Ligeti ; Karlheinz Stockhausen; title: Conductors. Ernest Bour ; Sir Neville Marriner ; Eugene Ormandy ; Hans Swarowsky ; Iván Fischer and Ádám Fischer; title: Instrumentalists. Alfred Brendel ; Yehudi Menuhin ; Isaac Stern ; Tibor Varga; title: Singers and a record producer. Cathy Berberian ; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Walter Legge; title: A teacher. Nadia Boulanger; title: Music administrators. Sir William Glock ; Wolfgang Stresemann; title: 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; title: Part two, A memoir.  Introduction; title: Ancestors; title: On being Jewish; title: Growing up in postwar socialist Hungary; title: Margit; title: Tapespondence; title: Birth and demise of a (counter) revolution : a boy's-eye view; title: Broadcasting 1; title: Broadcasting 2; title: Editio Musica Budapest; title: Interviewing : an obsession; title: Ich war ein Berliner; title: Moving to Vienna; title: Universal Edition; title: Back catalogue; title: The psychology of promotion; title: Farewell and after; title: Notes in retrospect.