How operas are created by composers and librettists
Subtitle: the life of Jack Beeson, American opera composer
By: Jack Beeson.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780773449473
Subjects: Beeson, Jack, -- 1921-; Composers -- United States -- Biography; Opera -- United States -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Growing up untypical in Middletown (1921-1939); title: At the Eastman School of Music during World War II (1939-1944); title: To New York City, Bela Bartok, and opera at Columbia (1944-1945); title: Britten's Grimes and Virgil Thomson's Mother and Aeneid; title: Living miscellaneously (1945-1948); title: Jonah (1947-1952) : Rome and the Ticino (1948-1950); title: New Yorkers and Ticinesi (1950-1952); title: Hello out there :  the sweet bye and bye : librettoless in Europe (1953-1959); title: Good deeds and the Ditson fund (1960-) : Lizzie Borden (1954-1965); title: My heart's in the highlands (1966-1970) : riots and the bust on campus (1968); title: Tempers and tantrums in the department : Captain Jinks of the horse marines (1968-1975); title: Two jinxed subjects : awards and passings : Dr. Heidegger's fountain of youth (1976-1978); title: Miscellanea and Cyrano (1978-1990); title: More miscellanea : sorry, wrong number : practice in the art of elocution (1990-1999); title: Coda (1999-).