The Classical Music Book

259 See also: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune 228–231 ■ Parade 256–257 ■ Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima 310–311 tried t ...

260 RAGTIME AND JAZZ INFLUENCES You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with secon ...

MODERN 1900 –1950 261 Insistence on a black cast for Porgy and Bess—seen here on Broadway in 1942—made Gershwin the subject of c ...

262 See also: The Nutcracker 190 ■ Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune 228–231 ■ Le Sacre du printemps 246–251 ■ Parade 256–257 ■ ...

263 See also: The Bartered Bride 206 ■ Dvorˇ ák’s Symphony No. 9 212–215 ■ Bartók’s String Quartet No. 5 270–271 ■ Spartacus 309 ...

264 MUSICALLY, THERE IS NOT A SINGLE CENTER OF GRAVITY IN THIS PIECE SYMPHONIE, OP. 21 ( 1927 –19 28 ), ANTON VON WEBERN S ince ...

265 See also: Canticum Canticorum 46–51 ■ The Art of Fugue 10 8 –111 ■ Pierrot lunaire 240–245 ■ Gruppen 306–307 MODERN 1900 –19 ...

266 THE ONLY LOVE AFFAIR I HAVE EVER HAD WAS WITH MUSIC PIANO CONCERTO FOR THE LEFT HAND (1929 –1930), MAURICE RAVEL D uring the ...

267 Louis Schwizgebel performs Ravel’s Piano Concerto for Left Hand, accompanied by the New York Youth Symphony led by Joshua Ge ...

268 SCIENCE ALONE CAN INFUSE MUSIC WITH YOUTHFUL VIGOR IONISATION (1929–1931), EDGARD VARÈSE T he machine age of the early 20th ...

269 Dame Evelyn Glennie, the world’s most celebrated percussionist, counts Ionisation alongside the works of John Cage and Steve ...

270 A lthough heavily influenced by German music, Béla Bartók’s individual voice became increasingly evident after he began to c ...

271 See also: Also sprach Zarathustra 192–194 ■ The Bartered Bride 206 ■ Dvorˇ á k’s Symphony No. 9 212–215 ■ Finlandia 220–221 ...

272 See also: Le Sacre du printemps 246–251 ■ Spartacus 309 F ollowing Russia’s October Revolution of 1917, when the cold realit ...

273 See also: Parade 256–257 ■ Quartet for the End of Time 282–283 ■ 4 ́33 ̋ 302–305 ■ November Steps 314–315 G amelan is an orc ...

REAL MUSIC IS ALWAYS REVOLUTIONARY SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN D MINOR, OP. 47 ( 1937 ), DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH US_274-279_Shostakovich.indd ...

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276 C omposers in the Soviet Union worked under severe restrictions during the 1930s. They, like all artists, were expected to s ...

277 A campaign began against artists and writers who were not following the party line. Over the next few years, this would resu ...

278 The new work was a resounding success, its triumph at the premiere on November 21, 1937, in Leningrad confirmed by a 40-minu ...