Settling the Score by Rorem, Ned -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page CONTENTS Permission Acknowledgments Introduction ONE: AMERICAN COMPOSERS: TRIBUTES AND REVIEWS

Living with Gershwin Copland’s Birthday (at Seventy) Copland at Eighty-five A Medal for Lenny William Flanagan: In Memoriam Flanagan’s Music Looking for Sam A Note on Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra Lord Byron in Kansas City Smoke without Fire Foss Improvises Cage’s HPSCHD A Paragraph on Crumb Elliott Carter: A Book Review Richard Cumming’s Songs Ezra Pound as Musician The American Composer Speaks

TWO: DEBUSSY, RAVEL, AND POULENC

Notes on Debussy Pelléas and Pierre Notes for Debussy’s En blanc et noir Ravel Ravel and Song Dancing to Ravel Ravel’s House Francis Poulenc: A Souvenir Afterthoughts on Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues Poulenc’s Chamber Music for Winds Bernac and Poulenc

THREE: GERMANS, RUSSIANS, AND OTHER EUROPEANS

The Rosenkavdlier Diary A Strauss Biography Notes on Weill Nabokov’s Bagázh Stravinsky via Craft Variations on Mussorgsky Rubinstein at the Movies About Toscanini Britten’s Death in Venice

FOUR: POPULAR MUSIC

Anita Ellis and Barbra Streisand Afterthoughts on the Beatles Against Rock Great Songs of the Sixties: A Book Review Jesus Christ Superstar Last Thoughts on the Beatles The More Things Change: Notes on French Popular Song

FIVE: THREE LANDSCAPES WITH FIGURES

Where Is Our Music Going? Our Music Now (1974) Our Music Now (1984)

SIX: OF SONGS AND WORDS

Poetry of Music Song Singing in America Anatomy of Two Songs Last Poems of Wallace Stevens: An Album Note A Postscript on Whitman

SEVEN: ODDS AND ENDINGS

Why I Write as I Do Notes on Sacred Music The Well-Dressed Composer Ladies’ Music Charles Rosen’s The Classical Style Homage to Julius Katchen (1926–1969) Robert Jacobson Gone Peter Yates on Twentieth-Century Music On Nearing Sixty Marginalia

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