Settling the score : essays on music / Ned Rorem.

Author: Rorem, Ned, 1923-2022.

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1988]

Descriptionxvii, 366 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note: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. - Notes on Debussy. - Pelléas and Pierre. - Notes on 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. - The Rosenkavalier diary. - A Strauss biography. - Notes on Weill. - Nabokov's Bagázh. - Stravinsky via Craft. - Variations on Mussorgsky. - Rubenstein at the movies. - About Toscanini. - Britten's Death in Venice. - Anita Ellis and Barbra Streisand. - Afterthoughts on the Beatles. - Against rock. - Great Songs of the Sixties: A book review. - Jeses Christ Superstar. - Last thoughts on the Beatles. - The more things change: Notes on French popular song. - Where is our music going? - Our music now (1974). - Our music now (1984). - Poetry of music. - Song singing in America. - Last poems of Wallace Stevens: An album note. - A postscript on Whitman. - 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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