Settling the Score

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480427778

<DIV><DIV><b>Ned Rorem explores the state of contemporary classical music in a magnificent collection of personally selected essays and critiques of masterworks, lesser works, and their legendary creators</b></div><DIV><BR>Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winner Ned Rorem&rsquo;s musical compositions are considered some of the finest produced in the past century. His literary works have been hailed as &ldquo;scintillating&rdquo; (<i>Time </i>magazine) and &ldquo;extraordinary&rdquo; (<i>The Washington Post</i>). Rorem&rsquo;s remarkable twin talents are brilliantly intertwined in <i>Settling the Score</i>, a masterful collection of essays on music, composers, and the state of the art.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>Selected by Rorem himself, these enthralling and provocative pieces examine the works of the great and (in the author&rsquo;s lively, unabashed opinion) the not-so-great masters of twentieth-century classical music&mdash;Debussy, Ravel, Copland, Gershwin, Barber, Cage, Bernstein, Britten, Stravinsky, and others. With keen precision, he dissects the so-called serious music of our time while predicting where the form is bound in the future. Never lacking in intelligence or wit, each essay in <i>Settling the Score</i> sings in a voice that is clear and true.</div></div>