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The New York season, 1937 -- Late winter, New York, 1937 -- The sleeping beauty -- Season's end in New York, 1937 -- More about Balanchine -- Opening notes, New York, 1973 -- In the theatre, 1937 -- With the dancers, 1937 -- Homage to Ravel, 1875-1937 -- Vacation novelties, New York -- With the dancers, 1938 -- Musical reactions, bold and otherwise -- Orchestras and audiences, Winter 1938 -- Recent festival in Rochester, 1938 -- Season's end, New York, Spring, 1938 -- Coolidge Crusade, WPA, New York season, 1938 -- Once again swing, also "American music" -- The case of Mr. Ives -- Further notes on the winter season, 1939/9 -- O fair world of music! -- At the Hall of Music -- Season of Hindemith and Americans, 1939 -- The New York season opens, 1939 -- American music in the New York scene, 1940 -- Stravinsky and other Moderns in 1940 -- The changing scene, New York, 1940 -- Films and theatre, 1943 [Mar.-Apr.] -- American figure, with landscape [Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert] -- Theatre and films, 1943 [May-Jun.] -- Theatre and films, 1943 [Nov.] -- Ives today : his vision and challenge -- Music as a liberal art --Gabriel Fauré -- New publications of music -- Score for Graham : festival at Columbia, 1946 -- Fallacy of the mechanistic approach [The Schillinger System] -- Walter Piston -- The composer's viewpoint [The League of Composers] -- An American destiny [Charles Edward Ives] -- The function fo the composer, 1951 -- Wallingford Riegger -- The rhythmic basis of American music -- Current chronicle : New York, 1959 [Roger Sessions : Violin concerto] -- Current chronicle : Italy [ISCM festival, Rome, 1959] -- A further step (1958) -- The composer's choices -- Sixty staves to read -- Shop talk by an American composer -- Current chronicle : Germany, 1960 [Nicolas Nabokov : Rasputin's end and Dmitri Shostakovich : Lady Macbeth of Mzensk] -- The milieu of the American composer -- Letter from Europe -- Expressionism and American music -- The time dimension in music -- Current chronicle : New York [Edward Steuermann] -- Introduction to a poetry reading session by W.H. Auden -- Charles Ives remembered -- Sonata for cello and piano -- Sonata for lute oboe, cello, and harpsichord [Program notes] -- String quartet no. 2 [Program note] -- String quartets no. 1 and no. 2 [Program notes] -- "The composer is a university commodity" -- The orchestral composer's point of view -- Igor Stravinsky, 1881-1971 [Perspectives of new music] -- Igor Stravinsky, 1882-1971 [Eulogy] -- Variations for orchestra (1955) [Program note] -- Music criticism -- In memoriam : Stefan Wolpe, 1902-1972 -- String quartet no. 3 [Program note] -- Brass quintet -- Double concerto for harpsichord and piano with two chamber orchestras -- Duo for violin and piano [Program notes] -- Documents of a friendship with Ives -- Music and the time screen -- A symphony of three orchestras (1976). |
