On Russian music /
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Some thoughts on the history and historiography of Russian music
- For Ukraine, he's a native son, regardless
- "Classicism" à la russe
- A wonderful beginning
- Dargomïzhsky and his Stone guest
- Pathetic symphonist : Chaikovsky, Russia, sexuality and the study of music
- Chaikovsky and the literary folk : a study in misplaced derision
- The great symbolist opera
- Chaikovsky as symphonist
- Russian originals, de- and re-edited
- A new, new Boris?
- Christian themes in Russian opera
- The case for Rimsky-Korsakov
- Kitezh : religious art of an atheist
- Sex and race, Russian style
- Yevreyi and Zhidy : a memoir, a survey, and a plea
- The antiliterary man : diaghilev and music
- From fairy tale to opera in four moves
- To cross that sacred edge : notes on a fiery angel
- Prokofieff's return
- Tone, style, and form in Prokofieff's Soviet operas
- Great artists serving Stalin like a dog
- Stalin lives on in the concert hall, but why?
- The last symphony?
- For Russian music mavens, a fabled beast is bagged
- Restoring comrade roslavets
- When serious music mattered
- Casting a great composer as a fictional hero
- Shostakovich's Bach: a pill to purge Stalinism
- Five operas and a symphony
- Hearing cycles
- Of mice and Mendelssohn
- Current chronicle : Molchanov's The dawns are quiet here
- The rising Soviet mists yield up another voice
- Where is Russia's new music? Iowa, that's where
- North (Europe) by northwest (America).