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- ISBN
- 9780253348944
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Leo Ornstein : Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 28.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 408 Pages
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Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and critics by decades Leo Ornstein passed away in 2002 at the age of 108. Frequently compared to Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, for a time Ornstein enjoyed a kind a celebrity granted few living musicians. And then he turned his back on it all. This first, full-length biographical study draws upon interviews, journals, and letters from a wide circle of Ornstein's friends and acquaintances to track the Ornstein family as it escaped the horrors of the Russian pogroms, and it situates the Russian-Jewish-American musician as he carved out an identity amidst World War I, the flu pandemic, and the Red Scare. While telling Leo Ornstein's story, the book also illuminates the stories of thousands of immigrants with similar harrowing experiences. It also explores the immeasurable impact of his unexpected marriage in 1918 to Pauline Mallet-Prevost, a Park Avenue debutante. Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices finds Ornstein at the center of several networks that included artists John Marin, William Zorach, Leon Kroll, writers and activists Paul Rosenfeld, Waldo Frank, Edmund Wilson, and Clair Reis, the Stieglitz Circle, and a group of English composers known as the Frankfurt Five. Ornstein's story challenges directly the traditional chronology and narrative regarding musical modernism in America and its close relation to the other arts.
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Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
0253348943
ISBN-13
9780253348944
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57169461
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Publication Name
Leo Ornstein : Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
408 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
28.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ml410.O67
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College Graduate Student
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... this book is a welcome biography of an innovator who has been neglected in America's musical history for too long. Broyles's and Von Glahn's detailed research easily proves their claim that Ornstein should be counted among the innovators of musical modernism and in turn provides a credible answer as to why Ornstein suddenly disappeared from the public eye; but for that answer you will have to read the ending., ... this book is a welcome biography of an innovator who has been neglected in America's musical history for too long. Broyles's and Von Glahn's detailed research easily proves their claim that Ornstein should be counted among the innovators of musical modernism and in turn provides a credible answer as to why Ornstein suddenly disappeared from the public eye; but for that answer you will have to read the ending. --Mark D. Porcaro, University of Dayton"Notes" (01/01/2008), Leo Ornstein's story has for far too long languished in the pending tray of music history. In this lively, thoughtful, and meticulously researched volume, Michael Broyles and Denise Von Glahn finally afford Ornstein the attention he deserves, firmly establishing his importance to early-twentieth-century modernism, before exploring and explaining his descent into, and subsequent return from, historical oblivion. The tale they tell is as fascinating as it is bizarre., The book proceeds on many levels. It is a study of the composer's childhood in Russia and the immigration of his family to the United States, in company with many Russian Jews. It is also a study, in Ornstein's case, of assimilation and Americanization, and its consequences. We learn a great deal about the United States, up through WW I, and about musical life of the time. Finally, Broyles and von Glahn give an overview of Ornstein's music and detailed descriptions of some major pieces, especially the "Quintette" and the early radical piano works., "... this book is a valuable resource on a neglected pianist/composer.... Highly recommended." -Choice, "... this book is a valuable resource on a neglected pianist/composer.... Highly recommended." -- Choice, "... this book is a welcome biography of an innovator who has been neglected in America's musical history for too long. Broyles's and Von Glahn's detailed research easily proves their claim that Ornstein should be counted among the innovators of musical modernism and in turn provides a credible answer as to why Ornstein suddenly disappeared from the public eye; but for that answer you will have to read the ending." -- Mark D. Porcaro, University of Dayton, Notes, Volume 65, Number 1, Sept. 2008, . . . this book is a welcome biography of an innovator who has been neglected in America's musical history for too long. Broyles's and Von Glahn's detailed research easily proves their claim that Ornstein should be counted among the innovators of musical modernism and in turn provides a credible answer as to why Ornstein suddenly disappeared from the public eye; but for that answer you will have to read the ending. Volume 65, Number 1, Sept. 2008, "... this book is a welcome biography of an innovator who has been neglected in America's musical history for too long. Broyles's and Von Glahn's detailed research easily proves their claim that Ornstein should be counted among the innovators of musical modernism and in turn provides a credible answer as to why Ornstein suddenly disappeared from the public eye; but for that answer you will have to read the ending." -Mark D. Porcaro, University of Dayton, Notes, Volume 65, Number 1, Sept. 2008, "Leo Ornstein's story has for far too long languished in the pending tray of music history. In this lively, thoughtful, and meticulously researched volume, Michael Broyles and Denise Von Glahn finally afford Ornstein the attention he deserves, firmly establishing his importance to early-twentieth-century modernism, before exploring and explaining his descent into, and subsequent return from, historical oblivion. The tale they tell is as fascinating as it is bizarre." -- David Nicholls, contributing editor of The Cambridge History of American Music, "Leo Ornstein's story has for far too long languished in the pending tray of music history. In this lively, thoughtful, and meticulously researched volume, Michael Broyles and Denise Von Glahn finally afford Ornstein the attention he deserves, firmly establishing his importance to early-twentieth-century modernism, before exploring and explaining his descent into, and subsequent return from, historical oblivion. The tale they tell is as fascinating as it is bizarre." -David Nicholls, contributing editor of The Cambridge History of American Music, ". . . this book is a valuable resource on a neglected pianist/composer. . . . Highly recommended."-- Choice "Leo Ornstein's story has for far too long languished in the pending tray of music history. In this lively, thoughtful, and meticulously researched volume, Michael Broyles and Denise Von Glahn finally afford Ornstein the attention he deserves, firmly establishing his importance to early-twentieth-century modernism, before exploring and explaining his descent into, and subsequent return from, historical oblivion. The tale they tell is as fascinating as it is bizarre."-- David Nicholls, contributing editor of The Cambridge History of American Music ". . . this book is a welcome biography of an innovator who has been neglected in America's musical history for too long. Broyles's and Von Glahn's detailed research easily proves their claim that Ornstein should be counted among the innovators of musical modernism and in turn provides a credible answer as to why Ornstein suddenly disappeared from the public eye; but for that answer you will have to read the ending. Volume 65, Number 1, Sept. 2008"--Mark D. Porcaro, University of Dayton "The book proceeds on many levels. It is a study of the composer's childhood in Russia and the immigration of his family to the United States, in company with many Russian Jews. It is also a study, in Ornstein's case, of assimilation and Americanization, and its consequences. We learn a great deal about the United States, up through WW I, and about musical life of the time. Finally, Broyles and von Glahn give an overview of Ornstein's music and detailed descriptions of some major pieces, especially the "Quintette" and the early radical piano works."--Robin Friedman, Midwest Book Review
Table of Content
Contents Introduction 1. Jacob Titiev's Story 2. From Institute to Bandbox 3. Circles and Triangle and Networks and Nets 4. The Bandbox and After 5. Identity 6. The Turning Point 7. The Philadelphia Years 8. Return from Oblivion Appendix 1. Table of Ornstein Compositions Bibliography Notes Index
Copyright Date
2007
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard
Lccn
2007-022611
Dewey Decimal
780.92 B
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music
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