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Believe Your Ears - Life of a Lyric Composer (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,168
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Believe Your Ears - Life of a Lyric Composer (Hardcover): Kirke Mechem

Believe Your Ears - Life of a Lyric Composer (Hardcover)

Kirke Mechem

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Believe Your Ears is the memoir of composer Kirke Mechem, whose unorthodox path to music provides a fascinating narrative. He wrote songs and played music by ear as a newspaper reporter, a touring tennis player, and a Stanford creative-writing major before studying composition and conducting at Harvard. He describes his residencies in San Francisco, Vienna, London, and Russia, and gives detailed attention to his choral music, operas, and symphonies. He writes that "the twentieth century gave us much brilliant music" but shows how atonality came to dominate the post-war period. His lyric style belongs to no particular "school," avoiding the trends, -isms, experiments, fads, and lunacies of the period. He encourages younger composers who are trying to bring back beauty, passion, and humor-even entertainment-to classical music. He asks music lovers to believe their own ears, not the lectures of "experts." Believe Your Ears is addressed to all who love classical music. Along the way, readers will meet Dimitri Shostakovich, Wallace Stegner, Billie Jean King, the Grateful Dead, Richard Rodgers, Benjamin Britten, Bill Tilden, and Aaron Copland-a who's who in Mechem's storied career.

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2015
Authors: Kirke Mechem
Dimensions: 235 x 160 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-5076-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
Books > Biography > General
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
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LSN: 1-4422-5076-3
Barcode: 9781442250765

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