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Winner of the ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography The musical landscape of New York City and the United States of America would look quite different had it not been for William Schuman. Orpheus in Manhattan, a fully objective and comprehensive biography of Schuman, portrays a man who had a profound influence upon the artistic and political institutions of his day and beyond. Steve Swayne draws heavily upon Schuman's letters, writings, and manuscripts as well as unprecedented access to archival recordings and previously unknown correspondence. The winner of the first Pulitzer Prize in Music, Schuman composed music that is rhythmically febrile, harmonically pungent, melodically long-breathed, and timbrally brilliant, and Swayne offers an astute analysis of his work, including many unpublished music scores. Swayne also describes Schuman's role as president of the Juilliard School of Music and of Lincoln Center, tracing how he both expanded the boundaries of music education and championed the performing arts. Filled with new discoveries
and revisions of the received historical narrative, Orpheus in Manhattan confirms Schuman as a major figure in America's musical life.

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Title Orpheus in Manhattan: William Schuman and the Shaping of America's Musical Life
Author Steve Swayne
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 712
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Date 2011-02
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780195388527 / 0195388526
Weight 2.45 lbs (1.11 kg)
Dimensions 9.48 x 6.41 x 1.72 in (24.08 x 16.28 x 4.37 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Composers - United States, Schuman, William
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010013551
Dewey Decimal Code B

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Library Journal, 01/01/2011, Page 100

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Steve Swayne is Jacob H. Strauss 1922 Professor of Music, and Music Department Chair at Dartmouth College. He is also an accomplished concert pianist and an award-winning composer.

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