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Believe Your Ears

- Life of a Lyric Composer
Af: Kirke Mechem Engelsk Paperback

Believe Your Ears

- Life of a Lyric Composer
Af: Kirke Mechem Engelsk Paperback
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Believe Your Ears is the memoir of composer Kirke Mechem, whose unorthodox path to music provides a fascinating narrative. He wrote songs and played music by ear as a newspaper reporter, a touring tennis player, and a Stanford creative-writing major before studying composition and conducting at Harvard. He describes his residencies in San Francisco, Vienna, London, and Russia, and gives detailed attention to his choral music, operas, and symphonies. He writes that “the twentieth century gave us much brilliant music” but shows how atonality came to dominate the post-war period. His lyric style belongs to no particular “school,” avoiding the trends, –isms, experiments, fads, and lunacies of the period. He encourages younger composers who are trying to bring back beauty, passion, and humor—even entertainment—to classical music. He asks music lovers to believe their own ears, not the lectures of “experts.”Believe Your Ears is addressed to all who love classical music. Along the way, readers will meet Dimitri Shostakovich, Wallace Stegner, Billie Jean King, the Grateful Dead, Richard Rodgers, Benjamin Britten, Bill Tilden, and Aaron Copland—a who’s who in Mechem’s storied career.
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Believe Your Ears is the memoir of composer Kirke Mechem, whose unorthodox path to music provides a fascinating narrative. He wrote songs and played music by ear as a newspaper reporter, a touring tennis player, and a Stanford creative-writing major before studying composition and conducting at Harvard. He describes his residencies in San Francisco, Vienna, London, and Russia, and gives detailed attention to his choral music, operas, and symphonies. He writes that “the twentieth century gave us much brilliant music” but shows how atonality came to dominate the post-war period. His lyric style belongs to no particular “school,” avoiding the trends, –isms, experiments, fads, and lunacies of the period. He encourages younger composers who are trying to bring back beauty, passion, and humor—even entertainment—to classical music. He asks music lovers to believe their own ears, not the lectures of “experts.”Believe Your Ears is addressed to all who love classical music. Along the way, readers will meet Dimitri Shostakovich, Wallace Stegner, Billie Jean King, the Grateful Dead, Richard Rodgers, Benjamin Britten, Bill Tilden, and Aaron Copland—a who’s who in Mechem’s storied career.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9781538104385
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1538104385
Udg. Dato: 19 jan 2017
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 231mm
Forlag: Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato: 19 jan 2017
Forfatter(e): Kirke Mechem
Forfatter(e) Kirke Mechem


Kategori Klassisk- & orkestermusik


ISBN-13 9781538104385


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 224


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 152mm


Højde 231mm


Udg. Dato 19 jan 2017


Oplagsdato 19 jan 2017


Forlag Rowman & Littlefield

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