Educating American Audiences: Claire Reis and the Development of Modern Music Institutions, 1912-1930
Description:
The creation of institutions devoted to promoting and supporting modern music in the United States during the 1920s made it possible for American composers to develop an identity distinct from that of European modernists. These institutions were thus a critical part of the process of modernization that began in the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century. There is substantial scholarship on these musical institutions of modern music, such as the International Composers’ …
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Date:
August 2013
Creator:
Freeman, Cole