| Variant title |
Title on label of accompanying CD: Music of Priscilla McLean : excerpts from 13 pieces profiled in Section III, "Hanging off the edge" |
| Contents |
Beginnings and endings. "Perhaps I can begin": Saturday, Feb. 20, 1993 ; "My mother used to tell me": Monday, Feb. 23, 1993 ; "I remember my birth": Friday, Feb. 27, 1993 ; "Today a flower bloomed": Wednesday, March 10, 1993 ; "About this time we moved again": March 17 & 18, 1993 ; "To close this section" -- Becoming. "In old Wachusett's shadow": Thursday, April 16, 1981 ; "End of 'observations on a winter's day': Monday, May 4 ; "In June 1965 I graduated": Thursday, May 14, 1981 ; "Indiana University offered" -- The composing life. Credo ; "Variations & mozaics on a theme of Stravinsky" ; "Interplanes for two pianos" ; "Dance of dawn" ; "Beneath the horizon I and III" ; "The inner universe" ; "In wilderness is the preservation of the world" ; "A magic dwells" ; "The dance of Shiva" ; "Rainforest images" ; "In the beginning" ; "Jambori Rimba" ; "The ultimate symphonius 2000" and "MILLing in the ENNIUM" ; "Symphony of seasons" and the future -- Dangling thoughts. Inside the mind of a (woman) composer ; Studio and touring axioms ; Dropping (famous)names. John Cage ; Henry Brant ; Henry Cowell ; Pauline Oliveros ; Vladimir Ussachevsky ; Morton Subotnick ; Vivian Fine ; Carter Harman ; Oliver Daniels ; Moses Asch -- To Borneo, with love ; Conclusion: on being a woman composer -- Listed works of Priscilla McLean. |
| Partial contents |
CD contents. Variations & mozaics on a theme of Stravinsky (Orch.) -- Interplanes (for two pianos) -- Dance of dawn (elec.) -- Beneath the horizon III -- The inner universe, "Flower power" (pno & tape) -- In wilderness is the preservation of the world: "On wings of song", "Invocation", "O Beautiful suburbia!" -- A magic dwells (orch. & tp.) -- The dance of Shiva -- Rainforest images -- In the beginning -- Jambori Rimba -- MILLing in the ENNIUM -- Symphony of seasons: "Jewels of January" -- "July dance." |
| Abstract |
This book is an extraordinary journey into the mind and life of one of America's most creative women, Priscilla McLean. McLean shares her precarious cliff-edge existence as a classical avant-garde troubadour and the day-by-day tour of the world through Europe, Asia, and Australia. She also writes of her touching story, from growing up in a middle-class family fallen on hard times during World War II to her seemingly settled life as a college professor's wife. McLean's quotes from her extensive journals, kept over a twenty-five-year span of time, give an immediacy and poignancy to this book. Mingled with these memories are original short poems, philosophical thoughts on the artist's life, and a whole section where McLean explores how, over the span of thirty-five years, thirteen special musical creations were born and placed before the world. |
| General note | "Tracks 1-13 mirror the pieces in the book, track 14 is July dance from Symphony of seasons"--CD label. |
| Bibliography note | Includes discography (pages 267-268), and bibliographical references (p. 269-271). |
| ISBN | 0595375480 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780595375486 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0595675271 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9780595675272 (cloth) |
