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