Category: Book Reviews

AN ATROPHY OF MUSICAL CREATION IN OUR TIME? MUSIC AFTER MODERNISM by Samuel Lipman. 256 pp. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1979, $11.95. OPUS EST: Six Composers from Northern Europe by Paul Rapoport. 200 pp. New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1979, $11.95. …

SERENADING THE RELUCTANT EAGLE: American Musical Life, 1925-1945.  By Nicholas Tawa. 261 pp.  New York: Schirmer Books, 1984, $19.95. Few books on the subject of American concert music provide much of either value or interest.  Most tend to fall into one of two …

THE COMPOSER’S ADVOCATE: A Radical Orthodoxy for Musicians.  By Erich Leinsdorf. 216 pp.  New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981. $14.95. Erich Leinsdorf, certainly one of our most intelligent and knowledgeable conductors has written a book of considerable value.  Though its intended reader …