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244 Pages
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Routledge
244 Pages
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Routledge
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Deems Taylor (1885-1966) was a composer, music critic, author, commentator, translator, and artist. He was the first American composer commissioned to write an opera by New York’s Metropolitan Opera, and composed orchestral and solo works that remain part of the repertoire. He gained fame initially introducing the regular radio broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic in the mid-‘30s; his fame was... Read more
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Poems, 1911-1919 -- Chapter 2 -- New York Sunday Tribune Magazine Articles and Some Others, 1914-1919 -- Chapter 3 -- New York World Music Criticisms, 1921-1925 -- Chapter 4 -- Vanity Fair Articles, 1927-1929 -- Intermission — An American in Paris -- Chapter 5 -- New York American “Words and Music” Columns, 1931-1932 Chapter 6 -- Chapters from Taylor’s Books: Of Men and Music (1937), The Well-Tempered Listener (1940), and Music to My Ears (1949); Several New York Philharmonic Intermission Talk Scripts; and His Final Article (1959) -- Bibliography -- Index
Biography
James Pegolotti is the author of Deems Taylor: A Biography (2003), an acclaimed account of the composer's life.
