Circle of Winners : How the Guggenheim Foundation Composition Awards Shaped American Music Culture Hardback
by Denise Von Glahn
Part of the Music in American Life series
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An essential high culture institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has both supported and molded American musical culture.
Denise Von Glahn examines the Foundation and its immense influence from the organization's prehistory and origins through the onset of World War II. Funded by the Guggenheim mining fortune, the Foundation took early shape from the efforts of Carroll Wilson, Frank Aydelotte, and Henry Allen Moe--three Rhodes Scholars who initially struggled to envision and implement the organization's ambitious goals.
Von Glahn also examines the career of the longtime musical advisor Thomas Whitney Surette while profiling early awardees Aaron Copland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, William Grant Still, Roger Sessions, George Antheil, and Carlos Chavez.
She examines the processes behind their selection, their values and aesthetics, and their relationships with the insiders and others who championed their work.
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- Pages:316 pages, 7 black & white photographs, 1 chart
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:01/08/2023
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- ISBN:9780252045097
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:316 pages, 7 black & white photographs, 1 chart
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:01/08/2023
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- ISBN:9780252045097