今回は、バーンスタインとジョン・ケージについてです。 Leonard Bernstein's composing gift has been overshadowed by his brilliance as conductor and pianist. In a sense it would be strange if he could not compose, for his ability in that direc…

新人とはどう扱うべきか、コープランドの金言です。７人の有望株@1949にはバーンスタインやケージの名前もあります。 1949: The New “School” of American Composers 1949年：アメリカ人作曲家の新たな「学派」 WHEN I WAS IN MY TWENTIES I had a consuming…

今回は、あのバーバーが登場します。 A larger number of names will be familiar than would have been true ten years ago. Marc Blitzstein's is probably best known. Blitzstein shows a definite “flair” for composition, although his early works w…

Four of the original seventeen composers － Hammond, Claflin, Maganini, and Steinert － have receded into comparative obscurity (1960: ”Obscurity” cannot in justice describe the busy musical lives of Steinert, Claflin, and Maganini). This …