Dreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music 1929-42

Dreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music 1929-42 By Leon Botstein Written for the concert Dreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music performed on March 12, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. In his classic 1983 study Music in the New World, Charles Hamm characterizes the period from 1894 to the outbreak of the second…

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Rissolty Rossolty (1939)

Rissolty Rossolty (1939) By Judith Tick, Author, Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer’s Search for American Music Written for the concert Dreams & Realities: Reinventing American Music performed on March 12, 1997 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. After the concert on April 6, 1938, Ruth Crawford Seeger took questions from an audience which had…

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