John Mauceri’s For the Love of Music: A Conductor’s Guide to the Art of Listening has been published by Alfred A. Knopf. Richard Crawford Norton’s Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music is out from W.W. Norton. Mark Berry’s Arnold Schoenberg and Pauline Fairclough’s Dmitry Shostakovich have been published in Reaktion Books’ Critical Lives series about leading cultural figures of the modern period. Cabals & Satires: Mozart’s Comic Operas in Vienna, musicologist Ian Woodfield’s exploration of the early reception of Mozart’s operas in Vienna, is now out from Oxford University Press. Metropolitan Books has published historian Orlando Figes’s The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture, centered on the nineteenth-century cultural era through the lives of Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot, and Viardot’s husband, Louis, an art critic, theater manager, and French Republican activist. Kyle Gann’s The Arithmetic of Listening: Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician has been published by University of Illinois Press. Music historian Ted Gioia’s Music: A Subversive History will be published by Basic Books on October 15. Music Lessons: The Collège de France Lectures by Pierre Boulez will be published by University of Chicago Press, for the first time in English translation, on October 29.
Posted October 8, 2019
