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Author Broyles, Michael, 1939- author.

Title Leo Ornstein : modernist dilemmas, personal choices / Michael Broyles and Denise Von Glahn
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 392 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits, music
Contents Introduction : Virtuoso on the fringe -- Jacob Titiev's story -- From institute to bandbox -- Circles and triangles and networks and nets -- The bandbox and after -- Identity -- The turning point -- The Philadelphia years -- Return from oblivion -- Modernist dilemmas, personal choices
Summary This biography of Ornstein examines the life of an American import who shook up the music scene. It tries to answer the questions of why he suddenly abandoned a successful concert career and why it took so long for his music to reemerge
Bibliography Includes list of Ornstein's works (pages 297-318), bibliographical references (pages 365-373) , and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Ornstein, Leo, 1892-2002.
SUBJECT Ornstein, Leo, 1892-2002 fast
Ornstein, Leo. swd
Subject Composers -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Composers
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Von Glahn, Denise, 1950- author.
ISBN 9780253028662
0253028663