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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Amy Beach; Beach; H H A Beach, Mrs.; Amy Beach; H H A Beach, Mrs. |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Adrienne Fried Block |
ISBN: | 0195074084 9780195074086 0195137841 9780195137842 9786610441501 6610441502 |
OCLC Number: | 36817052 |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of the Irving Lowens Award from the Society for American Music (2000), an Aaron Copland Award (2000), and an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award 1999.. Winner of Winner of the Irving Lowens Award from the Society for American Music (2000), an Aaron Copland Award (2000), and an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award 1999. |
Description: | xiii, 409 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | A Prodigy's New England Upbringing -- The Cheneys and the Marcys -- A Prodigy Despite Her Mother -- The Making of a Composer: I -- Two Ways of Looking at a Marriage -- The Making of a Composer: II -- Becoming Mistress of Her Craft -- Reaching Out to the World -- "One of the Boys" -- Amy Beach's Boston -- The Composer at the Keyboard: Beach Plays Beach -- "A Veritable Autobiography"?: The Piano Concerto -- The Composer's Workshop -- Choral Music -- The Chambered Nautilus -- Europe and a New Life -- "Lion of the Hour" -- My Old New Hampshire Home -- At the MacDowell Colony: "Solitude in Silence" -- Caring -- A Fascinating New York Life -- Beach the Modernist? -- Reckonings -- Harvest Time -- Postlude: The Legacy -- Catalog of Works -- Music's Ten Commandments as Given for Young Composers. |
Responsibility: | Adrienne Fried Block. |
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Amy Beach, passionate Victorian is attractively produced as well as being eminently readable in a homely American style * Andrew Thomson, The Musical Times * most informative * Andrew Thomson, The Musical Times * Block's patient reconstruction of the complex mediations that shaped Beach's career is a refreshing change from the one dimensional revisionism of some recent biographies. * Brian Morton, THES * painstaking reconstruction of a career suspended awkwardly between genius and conventional restraint. * Brian Morton, THES * fastidious new biography of the composer.../ Block reverently and explicitly writes the composer in, giving her credit that is long overdue./ ... not a light read and will interest music scholars most, the accessibly worded score analyses and extensive photo plates help cushion the ride for the lay reader./ Dylan Siegler, Billboard, 03/04/99 There is plenty of information in Block's study. Block's volume is diligently researched and provides much detail for the examination of Beach's early life as both woman and composer. * Peter Dickinson, Music and Letters * Read more...


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- Beach, Amy, -- 1867-1944.
- Composers -- United States -- Biography.
- Women composers -- United States -- Biography.
- Beach, -- Mrs., H. H. A., -- 1867-1944.
- Beach, H. H. A., -- Mrs., -- 1867-1944.
- Compositrices -- États-Unis -- Biographies.
- Beach, Amy, -- 1867-1944
- Composers.
- Women composers.
- United States.
- Beach, H. H. A. -- Mrs.
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