Howard Pollack
Biographic Data
| ID | 3743626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard Pollack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollack |
| SIGNATURE | POLLACK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aaron Copland in Latin America
Reviewed by: Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics by Carol A. Hess Howard Pollack Aaron Copland in Latin America: Music and Cultural Politics. By Carol A. Hess. (Music in American Life.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023. [344 p. ISBN 978-0-252-04485-4 (hardback). $125; ISBN 978-0-252-05400-6 (e-book). $14.95] In addition to all his other notable accomplishments as composer, pianist, conductor, writer, and concert …
Antonin Dvořák's New World SymphonyDvořák's Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music
Although the subject of voluminous commentary over the years, Antonín Dvořák's sympathetic interest in the lives and music of Black Americans—or at least music that the Czech composer perceived as related to Black Americans—seems all the more worthy of reconsideration in light of our current cultural climate. The two monographs reviewed here, without superseding the scholarship of Michael Beckerman in particular, undertake such a challenge in rat…
The Ballad of John Latouche
Born into a poor Virginian family, John Treville Latouche (1914–1956), in his short life, made a profound mark on America’s musical theater as a lyricist and librettist. The wit and skill of his lyrics elicited comparisons with the likes of Ira Gershwin and Lorenz Hart, but he had too, as Stephen Sondheim noted, “a large vision of what musical theater could be,” and he proved especially venturesome in helping to develop a lyric theater that innov…
The Little Friends
Latouche had friendship with a circle dubbed by Virgil Thomson “The Little Friends,” which included Harry Dunham, Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, and Latouche’s future wife Theodora Griffis, the scion of a distinguished and wealthy family. Latouche introduced Jane and Paul Bowles to each other. Latouche’s romantic relationship with Griffis led to marriage, although both were essentially homosexual. The Little Friends formed part of a larger group that …
To the Congo and into the Navy
Latouche interrupted his Broadway career in order to go to the Belgian Congo (1942-43) to help research and write a documentary with filmmaker André Cauvin for the Belgian government in exile, Congo (1945). The trip also resulted in a travelogue, called Congo as well and released in 1945. After his return from the Congo, Latouche entered the navy, joining the Seabees, and serving in California and in Hawaii (1943–44). On his return to New York, h…
Carlos Chavez and His World
Carlos Chávez (1899–1978) is the central figure in Mexican music of the twentieth century and among the most eminent of all Latin American modernist composers. An enfant terrible in his own country, Chávez was an integral part of the emerging music scene in the United States in the 1920s. His highly individual style—diatonic, dissonant, contrapuntal—addressed both modernity and Mexico's indigenous past. Chávez was also a governmental arts adminis…
Copland, Aaron
Glorious George
Funny, It Doesn’t Sound Jewish
Aaron Copland?s Short Symphony and the Challenge to Human Supervision and Control in Music
In his early works, in particular, the Short Symphony (1931-33), Aaron Copland engaged in various rhythmic innovations that taxed the ability of conventional musical notation to accurately express his thoughts and that challenged orchestral conductors to supervise and control events. Although he accomplished this in the context of the modernist rebellion against the so-called tyranny of the barline, he did so in ways distinguished from that of St…
Piston, Walter
Shapero, Harold
Copland, Aaron
Aaron Copland
The Dean of Gay American Composers
Scholars and commentators are becoming increasingly aware of the contributions homosexual and bisexual composers have made toward the growth and development of serious American music in the twentieth century. In her article on Classical Music and Opera for the St. James Press Gay and Lesbian Almanac, Nadine Hubbs, for instance, discussing in particular the prominence of Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein, speaks of the central r…
German Literature and Music. An Aesthetic Fusion
Ernst Krenek
Harvard Composers
Sonata pour Piano
String Symphony
Nine-Minute Overture
Chamber Music
Conversations with Roger Sessions
Interviews with the American composer discuss orchestral and local music, music theory, sessions' life, and fellow musicians and composers
Scenes from Shir ha-shirim
String Quartets, Nos. 1-5
Carlos Chavez and His World
Carlos Chávez (1899–1978) is the central figure in Mexican music of the twentieth century and among the most eminent of all Latin American modernist composers. An enfant terrible in his own country, Chávez was an integral part of the emerging music scene in the United States in the 1920s. His highly individual style—diatonic, dissonant, contrapuntal—addressed both modernity and Mexico's indigenous past. Chávez was also a governmental arts adminis…
Walter Piston
String Quartets, Nos. 1-5
The Mad Frog
Platinum Spirals
Conversations with Roger Sessions
Interviews with the American composer discuss orchestral and local music, music theory, sessions' life, and fellow musicians and composers
Scenes from Shir ha-shirim
String Symphony
Nine-Minute Overture
Chamber Music
Sonata pour Piano
Harvard Composers
German Literature and Music. An Aesthetic Fusion
Ernst Krenek
Aaron Copland
The Dean of Gay American Composers
Scholars and commentators are becoming increasingly aware of the contributions homosexual and bisexual composers have made toward the growth and development of serious American music in the twentieth century. In her article on Classical Music and Opera for the St. James Press Gay and Lesbian Almanac, Nadine Hubbs, for instance, discussing in particular the prominence of Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein, speaks of the central r…
Piston, Walter
Shapero, Harold
Copland, Aaron
Aaron Copland?s Short Symphony and the Challenge to Human Supervision and Control in Music
In his early works, in particular, the Short Symphony (1931-33), Aaron Copland engaged in various rhythmic innovations that taxed the ability of conventional musical notation to accurately express his thoughts and that challenged orchestral conductors to supervise and control events. Although he accomplished this in the context of the modernist rebellion against the so-called tyranny of the barline, he did so in ways distinguished from that of St…
Funny, It Doesn’t Sound Jewish
Glorious George
Copland, Aaron
Carlos Chavez and His World
Carlos Chávez (1899–1978) is the central figure in Mexican music of the twentieth century and among the most eminent of all Latin American modernist composers. An enfant terrible in his own country, Chávez was an integral part of the emerging music scene in the United States in the 1920s. His highly individual style—diatonic, dissonant, contrapuntal—addressed both modernity and Mexico's indigenous past. Chávez was also a governmental arts adminis…
The Ballad of John Latouche
Born into a poor Virginian family, John Treville Latouche (1914–1956), in his short life, made a profound mark on America’s musical theater as a lyricist and librettist. The wit and skill of his lyrics elicited comparisons with the likes of Ira Gershwin and Lorenz Hart, but he had too, as Stephen Sondheim noted, “a large vision of what musical theater could be,” and he proved especially venturesome in helping to develop a lyric theater that innov…
The Little Friends
Latouche had friendship with a circle dubbed by Virgil Thomson “The Little Friends,” which included Harry Dunham, Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, and Latouche’s future wife Theodora Griffis, the scion of a distinguished and wealthy family. Latouche introduced Jane and Paul Bowles to each other. Latouche’s romantic relationship with Griffis led to marriage, although both were essentially homosexual. The Little Friends formed part of a larger group that …
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