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Contents |
Promising beginnings (1890-1901) -- St. Petersburg proving-ground (1901-1902) -- Classroom and palace (1902) -- Student life and Rimsky-Korsakov (1903-1906) -- Prizewinning graduate (1906-1907) -- Luftpause in Alt Wien (Summer 1907) -- Promise fulfilled: Berlin (Fall 1907) -- European kudos (Fall-Winter 1907) -- London and Joseph Fels (1907-1908) -- A temporary base (1908-1909) -- Return to Russia (1909-1911) -- America and Alma: love at first sight (Fall 1911) -- Trying the New World on for size (Winter 1911-Spring 1912) -- Marriage and a changing world (1912-1914) -- Manhattan family hearth (1914-1920) -- High living (1920-1932) -- Discovering the Orient (1922-1928) -- A new career: globetrotting professor (1928-1933) -- Soviet invitation-- and personal tragedy (1933-1938) -- Mary Louise Curtis Bok and the C.I.M. (1938-1947) -- Winding down (1947-1968) -- Productive retirement (1970-1978) -- Coming to terms with Bach-- and mortality (1978-1985). |
Bibliography note | Includes discography (p. [339]-351), bibliographical references (p. [353]-355) and index. |
LCCN | 2003025107 |
ISBN | 1574670913 (hardcover) |