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04260aam a2200373 i 4500 001 AEFE495CCF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210617010040 008 201211t20212021enk b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9781527563094 020 $a 152756309X 035 $a (OCoLC)1226480188 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SUC $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a ML60 $b .A83 2021 082 04 $a 780 $2 23 082 04 $a 973.93 $2 23 100 1 $a Asia, Daniel, $e author. 245 10 $a Observations on music, culture, and politics / $c by Daniel Asia. 264 1 $a Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : $b Cambridge Scholars Publishing, $c 2021. 300 $a xvii, 234 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Preface -- Foreword. Why high culture matters / by Jay Nordlinger -- part 1. The idea of high culture. Diminuendo: classical music and the academy ; Postscript: A brief modern classical music reading and listening list -- Tarnished gold: classical music in America -- A musing on Gunther Schuller's Musings -- The future of (high) culture in America -- Dear future arts professor -- Front and center: the place for western classical music in the curriculum -- Sacred music: the holy minimalists and James Primosch -- Steinbeck, Sontag, and Boulez -- Summertime musical musings I: George Haas -- Summertime musical musings II: Laurie Anderson -- Summertime musical musings III: sheep and opera -- Breath in a ram's horn: why classical music is like Jewish prayer -- part 2. Music I (mostly) hold dear. Introduction -- GyoÂrgy Ligeti -- Steve Reich -- Philip Glass -- Toru Takemitsu -- Earle Brown and Morton Feldman -- Robert Beaser -- John Adams -- Frederic Rzewski -- John Corigliano and David del Tredici -- Robert Dick -- Fred Lerdahl String Quartets 1-3 -- George Rochberg -- Concertos of Stephen Jaffe, Joan Tower, Stephen Albert and Christopher Rouse -- String quartets of George Tsontakis, Donald Wheelock, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, and Daniel Godfrey -- Ned Rorem -- Pierre Jalbert -- Justin Rubin -- Augusta Read Thomas -- part 3. Criticism and review. Herb London's The transformation decade -- David Gelernter: The airhead ascendancy -- A review and commentary on Copland's Music and imagination -- Revolutions: a response to John Borstlap's The classical revolution -- Tumbling down: a review of Bauerlein and Bellow's The state of the American mind -- The comeback of beautiful music: a review of Robert R. Reilly and Jens F. Laurson's Surprised by beauty -- Composing history: a review of The noise of time -- Here, there, and everywhere: a review of the End of college -- To praise the prize? The music of Andrew Norman and Hans Abrahamsen -- A review of Lukas Foss's complete symphonies -- A review of Robert Beaser's album Guitar concerto & other works -- The Scalia sermon: a review of Antonin Scalia's Scalia speaks -- Soul music: a review of Jan Swafford's Language of the spirit -- Can we all just get along? A review of Arthur Brook's Love your enemies -- A tale of two concertos: the piano concertos of Yehudi Wyner and Bernard Rands -- Music in the southwest part I: Tito Munoz and the Phoenix Symphony -- Music in the southwest part II: The Tucson Symphony Orchestra -- Music in the southwest part III: two concerts in Tucson -- A review of Jan Swafford's Beethoven: anguish and triumph -- Letters, a response to "Games people play" -- part 4. Polemics. The put on of the century, or the Cage Centenary -- The politics of new music -- Carter is dead -- An open letter to a new university president -- The case for Barber and Britten -- Final response on "The put on of the century, or the Cage Centenary." 650 0 $a Music. 650 0 $a Music $x Philosophy and aesthetics. 651 0 $a United States $x Intellectual life $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Music. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030269 650 7 $a Music $x Philosophy and aesthetics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030408 650 7 $a Intellectual life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975769 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317023611.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AEFE495CCF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search