American mavericks / edited by Susan Key and Larry Rothe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Key, Susan.

Rothe, Larry.

Tilson Thomas, Michael, 1944-2026.

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--United States--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Composers--United States.

Composers.

Music--United States--20th century.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

ix, 150 pages : illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 31 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

American mavericks : visionaries, pioneers, iconoclasts

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif. : San Francisco Symphony ; Berkeley, Calif. : Published in cooperation with the University of California Press, [2001]

System Details:

1.4 m/s

digital recording

Summary:

In American Mavericks: Visionaries, Pioneers, Iconoclasts, some of this country's foremost commentators offer viewpoints on the spectrum of 20th-century music in the United States. Based on the San Francisco Symphony's American Mavericks festival, conceived by Michael Tilson Thomas and presented under his direction in June 2000, this book offers perspectives on the lives and works of composers featured in that groundbreaking celebration of the American avant-garde.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The American Maverick Tradition / Alan Rich 1

Chapter 2 The Maverick and the Public / Michael Broyles 9

Chapter 3 Search for the Modern: Early 20th-Century Mavericks 17

Chapter 4 Finding an American Sound: Two Contemporaries 37

Chapter 5 New Sources of Musical Sound: Technology and the Junkyard 51

Chapter 6 Control and Beyond: The Postwar Avant-Garde 71

Chapter 7 Mixed Voices: The '60s Generation 89

Postscript: Music for an Evolving World / Michael Tilson Thomas 117

American Mavericks at the San Francisco Symphony: The Programs 120.

Notes:

Essays by Alan Rich, Michael Broyles, and Michael Tilson Thomas, and chapters on individual composers, chiefly based on program notes from The San Franciso Symphony's American Mavericks festival held June 7-24, 2000.

Accompanying sound disc contains excerpts from works by Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, George Antheil, Lou Harrison, John Cage, Morton Feldman, David Del Tredici, and Steve Mackey from the festival performances, and includes spoken introductions and conversations between Michael Tilson Thomas and several of the represented composers. Titles, timing and credits on p. 150.

Includes bibliobgraphic references (pages 128-130) and index.

Discography: pages 130-133.

ISBN:

0520233050

0520233042 :

OCLC:

48236317