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Schumann - A Chorus of Voices is a significant contribution to Schumann's 200th-birthday year, 2010. In these hitherto unpublished interviews and conversations, more than thirty biographers, musicians, critics, and commentators offer their own unique perspectives on Schumann's life, work, controversies, and place in the history of Romantic music. Gathered by Schumann scholar John C. Tibbetts during more than thirty years of travel and research, these intimate and informal talks take the reader ""backstage"" to the rehearsal hall, scholar's study, archive, and music festival. Included are musicians Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Erich Leinsdorf, Jorg Demus, Emanuel Ax, Elly Ameling, Thomas Hampson, Steven Isserlis, Marin Alsop; scholars and biographers Jacques Barzun, Nancy B. Reich, Peter Ostwald, Leon Plantinga, and Larry Todd; critics and commentators Martin Bookspan, Eugenia Zuckerman, and Maurice Sendak; and archivists Gerd Nauhaus, Ute Baer, and Joachim Draheim.

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John C. Tibbetts (Lawrence, KS) is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Kansas, where he teaches courses in film history and media studies. As a broadcaster, journalist, and scholar he has worked as a news reporter for CBS Television and National Public Radio; produced classical music programming for Kansas Public Radio; and written (and illustrated) 14 books, more than 200 articles, and several short stories. His most recent book is Composers in the Movies: Studies in Musical Biography (Yale University Press, 2005). He is also a pianist and a 2008 recipient of the Kansas Governor's Arts in Education Award.

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