Bartók's [i]Bluebeard[/i]: The Sources of Its "Modernism"

01 October 1990 Bartók's Bluebeard: The Sources of Its "Modernism"1 Historical Background More than three quarters of a century after its composition, Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1911) is still categorized as "modern" music. Its status as a "contemporary"...

The Lessons of Faustus

01 October 1981 Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus1 spotlights one of the most critical interfaces between traditional and new music as seen by the community of German intellectuals living in southern California in the early 1940s. Its composer/hero Adrian Leverkn,...