Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xvii, 234 pages; 22 cm

Subject

1. United States
2. Music
3. 2000-2099
4. Intellectual life
5. Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
6. United States > Intellectual life > 21st century

Contents

1. Preface -- Foreword. Why high culture matters / by Jay Nordlinger -- part 1. The idea of high culture. Diminuendo: classical music and the academy ; Postscript: A brief modern classical music reading and listening list -- Tarnished gold: classical music in America -- A musing on Gunther Schuller's Musings -- The future of (high) culture in America -- Dear future arts professor -- Front and center: the place for western classical music in the curriculum -- Sacred music: the holy minimalists and James Primosch -- Steinbeck, Sontag, and Boulez -- Summertime musical musings I: George Haas -- Summertime musical musings II: Laurie Anderson -- Summertime musical musings III: sheep and opera -- Breath in a ram's horn: why classical music is like Jewish prayer -- part 2. Music I (mostly) hold dear. Introduction -- György Ligeti -- Steve Reich -- Philip Glass -- Toru Takemitsu -- Earle Brown and Morton Feldman -- Robert Beaser -- John Adams -- Frederic Rzewski -- John Corigliano and David del Tredici -- Robert Dick -- Fred Lerdahl String Quartets 1-3 -- George Rochberg -- Concertos of Stephen Jaffe, Joan Tower, Stephen Albert and Christopher Rouse -- String quartets of George Tsontakis, Donald Wheelock, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, and Daniel Godfrey -- Ned Rorem -- Pierre Jalbert -- Justin Rubin -- Augusta Read Thomas -- part 3. Criticism and review. Herb London's The transformation decade -- David Gelernter: The airhead ascendancy -- A review and commentary on Copland's Music and imagination -- Revolutions: a response to John Borstlap's The classical revolution -- Tumbling down: a review of Bauerlein and Bellow's The state of the American mind -- The comeback of beautiful music: a review of Robert R. Reilly and Jens F. Laurson's Surprised by beauty -- Composing history: a review of The noise of time -- Here, there, and everywhere: a review of the End of college -- To praise the prize? The music of Andrew Norman and Hans Abrahamsen -- A review of Lukas Foss's complete symphonies -- A review of Robert Beaser's album Guitar concerto & other works -- The Scalia sermon: a review of Antonin Scalia's Scalia speaks -- Soul music: a review of Jan Swafford's Language of the spirit -- Can we all just get along? A review of Arthur Brook's Love your enemies -- A tale of two concertos: the piano concertos of Yehudi Wyner and Bernard Rands -- Music in the southwest part I: Tito Muñoz and the Phoenix Symphony -- Music in the southwest part II: The Tucson Symphony Orchestra -- Music in the southwest part III: two concerts in Tucson -- A review of Jan Swafford's Beethoven: anguish and triumph -- Letters, a response to "Games people play" -- part 4. Polemics. The put on of the century, or the Cage Centenary -- The politics of new music -- Carter is dead -- An open letter to a new university president -- The case for Barber and Britten -- Final response on "The put on of the century, or the Cage Centenary."

Call number

1. JND 21-32

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Asia, Daniel, author.

Title

1. Observations on music, culture, and politics / by Daniel Asia.

Publisher

1. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.

Copyright date

1. ©2021

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

ISBN

1. 152756309X hardcover
2. 9781527563094 hardcover

Research call number

1. JND 21-32