And they all sang
Subtitle: the great musicians of the 20th century talk about their music
By: Studs Terkel
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781862078987; 9781862079897
Subjects: Musicians; Interviews; Musici; Interviewen; Muziek; Musiker
Notes: Originally published: New York: New Press, 2005.
Table of contents: title: Prelude : an American original. John Jacob Niles; title: Vox humana. Tito Gobbi : good and evil ; Geraint Evans : the outsider; title: Liebestod. Jon Vickers ; Birgit Nilsson; title: Salzburg. Josef Krips ; Irmgard Seefried ; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; title: Diva. Rosa Raisa ; Edith Mason; title: American-born. Marian Anderson ; Richard Tucker ; Catherine Malfitano; title: The instrument. Andres Segovia ; Ravi Shankar ; Alfred Brendel ; Garrick Ohlsson ; Nicolas Slonimsky; title: Composers. Virgil Thompson ; Aaron Copland ; Leonard Bernstein; title: Impresario (1). Sol Hurok; title: Jazz. Lil Armstrong ; Louis Armstrong ; Earl Hines ; Dizzy Gillespie ; Betty Carter ; Henry Threadgill ; Keith Jarrett; title: Impresario (2). John Hammond, Sr.; title: Spirituals, blues, folk, rock. Thomas A. Dorsey ; Mahalia Jackson ; Big Bill Broonzy ; Emanuel Dunn ; Bob Dylan ; Woody Guthrie ; Pete Seeger ; Jean Ritchie ; Janis Joplin; title: Impresario (3). Alan Lomax; title: Variations on the theme. Larry Adler ; Richard Dyer-Bennett ; Julian Lee Rayford; title: Postlude : a graceful goodbye. Lotte Lehmann.