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xxxi, 473 pages 22 cm Part I. How I became a music critic ; Debussy's La Mer reaches Boston -- "And epoch-making rondo": Till Eulenspiegel -- Who can succeed Dr. Muck -- Ein Heldenleben and the Tchaikovsky concerto -- The Sibelius second -- The young Elman plays Tchaikovsky -- Pelleas et Melisande makes history -- Rachmaninoff conducts and plays -- A symphony by Halm, a tone poem by Strauss -- Two new Americans' compositions are heard -- Der Rosenkavalier: two years before it reached the U.S. -- Mme Calve in recital with her husband -- Dr. Muck conducts the Sibelius first -- Harvard Musical Review -- Kreisler plays the Beethoven concerto -- The Boston opera opens with Offenbach -- Mary Garden is seen as Tosca -- A Rameau-Debussy concert -- Boston Premiere of the Sibelius fourth -- Schoenberg's five pieces for orchestra in Boston -- The Russian ballet invades Boston and conquers it -- A romantic program: Berlioz, Liszt, Schumann -- Three Boston Premieres for Sibelius -- Three Boston Premieres for Bloch -- Debussy's Images and Schubert's C major -- Boston Premiere of the Mahler second -- Monteux conducts Griffes and Chausson -- Petrouchka: "the certainty and recklessness of genius" -

Author

Irene Downes, with a pref. by Howard Taubman

Publisher

New York, Simon and Schuster

Published

1957

Language

EN

Subjects

Music, Arts

Updated

2026-03-24