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Author:   Philip Ross Bullock
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.653kg
ISBN:  

9780226820743

ISBN 10:   0226820742
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 July 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction             Philip Ross Bullock Permissions and Credits Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Dating   MOSCOW AND MODERNITY Reading the Popular Pessimist: Thought, Feeling, and Dance in Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Narrative             Peter Franklin Sergei Rachmaninoff and Moscow Musical Life             Rebecca Mitchell Love Triumphant: Rachmaninoff’s Eros, the Silver Age, and the Middlebrow             Marina Frolova-Walker Rachmaninoff and the “Vocalise”: Word and Music in the Russian Silver Age             Philip Ross Bullock   THREE OPERAS Tchaikovsky’s Echoes, Chaliapin’s Sobs: Aleko, Rachmaninoff, and the Contemporary             Emily Frey Rachmaninoff’s Miserly Knight (On Money, Honor, and the Means to Create)             Caryl Emerson Burning for You: Rachmaninoff’s Francesca da Rimini             Simon Morrison   NEW WORLDS Rachmaninoff and the Celebrity Interview: A Selection of Documents from the American Press             Selected and Edited by Philip Ross Bullock The Eighteenth Variation             Steve Swayne “One of the Outstanding Musical Events of All Time”: The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 1939 Rachmaninoff Cycle             Christopher H. Gibbs “The Case of Rachmaninoff”: The Music of a White Emigré in the USSR             Marina Raku, translated by Jonathan Walker Aesthetic Ambition and Popular Taste: The Divergent Paths of Paderewski, Busoni, and Rachmaninoff             Leon Botstein   Index Notes on the Contributors

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"""The editor and contributor, Philip Ross Bullock, should be congratulated on producing a collection of articles that adds much detailed substance. .  . . It deserves a place in libraries everywhere and in the collections of those music lovers for whom ‘romantic’ is not a dirty word."" * Slavonic and East European Review *"

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Philip Ross Bullock is professor of Russian literature and music at the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor in Russian at Wadham College, Oxford. He is the author of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and coeditor of Music’s Nordic Breakthrough: Modernity, Aesthetics, and Cultural Exchange, 1890–1930, with Daniel M. Grimley.

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