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Vincent Persichetti: Grazioso, Grit, and Gold is the first critical biography of the esteemed American composer, bringing together scholarly work and short contributed essays of prominent performers. Andrea Olmstead weaves a captivating narrative of the composer from his early life to his musical activities at Juilliard and death in 1987.
List of contents
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: 1915-1939
Chapter 1: Early Life and Musical Training
Chapter 2: The Combs Conservatory
Chapter 3: Persichetti as a Student
Chapter 4: Arch Street Church and the Silent Year
Chapter 5: The Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and Paul Nordoff
Chapter 6: Olga Samaroff
Chapter 7: The Philadelphia Orchestra, Stokowski, Ormandy
Chapter 8: Curtis Institute and Reiner
Chapter 9: The "Silent" Decade
Part II: 1938-1962
Chapter 10: Dorothy from Kansas
Chapter 11: Music in 1939 and 1940
Chapter 12: 1941-1943
Chapter 13: Roy Harris Chapter 14: The Philadelphia Conservatory and a Trial
Chapter 15: William Schuman and Juilliard
Chapter 16: Choral Settings of E. E. Cummings
Chapter 17: The Piano Sonata Period
Chapter 18: Divertimento for Band
Chapter 19: Harmonium
Chapter 20: 1952-1953
Chapter 21: The Schuman Book
Chapter 22: Hymns and Responses for the Church Year
Chapter 23: Symphony for Band
Chapter 24: The Year of the Song
Chapter 25: Seventh Symphony
Chapter 26: Mass
Chapter 27: Twentieth-Century Harmony
Part III: 1962-1987
Chapter 28: Peter Mennin and Lincoln Center
Chapter 29: Religious Music
Chapter 30: Masquerade
Chapter 31: The Choral(e) Years, 1966-1969
Chapter 32: The Creation
Chapter 33: Ninth Symphony
Chapter 34: Parables
Chapter 35: A Lincoln Address
Chapter 36: More Parables
Chapter 37: The Sibyl
Chapter 38: English Horn Concerto
Chapter 39: Mirror Music
Chapter 40: The Harpsichord Period
Chapter 41: 1985-1987
Chapter 42: Death and Posthumous Reputation
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Works
Index
About the Author
About the author
Andrea Olmstead is the author of seven books and five book chapters including four books about the modernist American composer Roger Sessions. She is the author of Juilliard: A History; her Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy? is available as an eBook. Andrea’s most recent book, Vincent Persichetti; Grazioso, Grit, and Gold won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Outstanding Musical Biography. The recipient of three national Endowment for the Humanities Awards, she has been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome ten times and a writing Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts on six occasions. Olmstead was the Christopher Hogwood Research Fellow for the Handel & Hadyn Society Orchestra and Chorus, giving pre-concert lectures for the Handel & Haydn Society, as well as for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, among others. Also a CD producer, she wrote the libretto for and produced the opera Holy Ghosts, music by Larry Bell based on the play by Romulus Linney (www.HolyGhoststheopera.com). She taught Music History at The Juilliard School, the Boston Conservatory, and at the New England Conservatory of Music.
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Vincent Persichetti: Grazioso, Grit, and Gold is the first critical biography of the esteemed American composer, bringing together scholarly work and short contributed essays of prominent performers. Andrea Olmstead weaves a captivating narrative of the composer from his early life to his musical activities at Juilliard and death in 1987.
