[i]Nineteenth-Century Piano Music[/i], edited by R. Larry Todd; [i]Twentieth-Century Piano Music[/i], by David Burge

01 October 1991 and to keep his or her eyes open for Per Nørgård, Akira Miyoshi, Robert Wilson, Ann Silsbee, and many others. authors: Howard Pollack author_ids: 1176 authors: Howard Pollack author_ids: 1176

Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music, by Richard Crawford

20 September 2020 Edward Jablonski, and Deena Rosenberg have contributed to a steadily growing pile of Gershwin monographs. In 2006, Howard Pollack released the longest and most meticulously detailed Gershwin biography to date. Summertime, Richard Crawford’s attempt at...

Robert Schumann's Album for the Young and the Coming of Age of Nineteenth-Century Piano Pedagogy

01 October 2001 Newman's contention that the works of Schumann's late period have "virtually disappeared from the canon" is refuted by Howard Pollack's observation that "hardly a pianist alive has not played 'The Happy Farmer' or some other little piece from The Album...

Bernstein's Senior Thesis At Harvard: The Roots of a Lifelong Search to Discover an American Identity

01 October 2008 Sometime in March 1939 Leonard Bernstein, then a Harvard University senior, wrote a letter to his former piano teacher and future secretarial assistant Helen Coates on Stillman Infirmary letterhead.2 After a day which found him prostrate as a "victime...

Space, Time, and Memory: Examining the Disconnect between Looking at Contemporary Art and Listening to Contemporary Music

20 September 2020 Abstract This article considers the paradox of why lay people can appreciate modern visual art yet regard contemporary music as noise. Why do art lovers look at Picasso’s Guernica (1937), for instance, and proclaim it a masterpiece and yet when they...