San Antonio College Library

Although Russian music has been immensely popular with the Western World, music lovers and collectors have had few sources of information on the subject. Here is the first comprehensive guide devoted to the whole fascinating history of Russian music, from the chant of the medieval Russian Church to the regimented art of the present Communist State. The great figures of the nineteenth century - Glinka, Dargomyjsky, Balakirev, Musorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov,...

"The October Revolution of 1917 tore the fabric of Russian musical life: institutions collapsed, and leading composers emigrated or fell into silence. But in 1932, at the outset of the 'socialist realist' period, a new Stalinist music culture was emerging. Between these two dates lies a turbulent period of change which this book charts year by year. It sheds light on the vicious power struggles and ideological wars, the birth of new aesthetic credos,...

When Béla Bartók fled to New York in 1940, he carried his love of folk melodies to Columbia University, where he became a research fellow studying Serbo-Croatian music. In this timeless program, friends and associates--including Yehudi Menuhin and the late Sir Georg Solti--join Bartók's sons Peter and Béla, Jr., to reflect on the Hungarian composer's last five years, in which he wrote the Concerto for Orchestra, one of his greatest compositions....