György Kurtág (b. 1926) is a name those interested in contemporary music have often encountered but whose music they have seldom heard, especially in North America....
This book is not about the conductor character from the Seinfeld television show, who insisted everyone call him “Maestro,” though it is written in an entertaining...
There are probably almost as many books about tenors as there are about sopranos, though, like those latter, they tend to hew closely to the biographical....
There is no shortage of biographies of George Gershwin, most recently by William Hyland (2003) and Howard Pollack (2007). Mention must also be made of Isaac...
Nicholas Tawa is a veteran musicologist—one of the founders of the Society for American Music (formerly known as the Sonneck Society)—and the author of countless books...
