Nancy Toff

Monarch of the Flute

The Life of Georges Barrère

N. Toff: Monarch of the Flute, Fl (Bu) (0)
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flauto
Edizione:
libro (copertina flessibile)
№ dell’articolo:
768946
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Lingua:
inglese
Formato:
464 Pagine; 15,6 × 23,4 cm
Anno di pubblicazione:
2012
Editore / Produttore:
N° del produttore:
OUP 9780199942459
ISBN:
9780199942459

Descrizione

Georges Barrère (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that were written for him—the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varèse—he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States and set a new standard for American woodwind performance.

Barrère's story is a musical tale of two cities, and this book uses his life as a window onto musical life in Belle Epoque Paris and twentieth-century New York. Recurrent themes are the interactions of composers and performers; the promotion of new music; the management, personnel, and repertoire of symphony orchestras; the economic and social status of the orchestral and solo musician, including the increasing power of musicians' unions; the role of patronage, particularly women patrons; and the growth of chamber music as a professional performance medium.

A student of Paul Taffanel at the Paris Conservatoire, by age eighteen Barrère played in the premiere of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. He went on to become solo flutist of the Concerts Colonne and to found the Sociètè Moderne d'Instruments á Vent, a pioneering woodwind ensemble that premiered sixty-one works by forty composers in its first ten years. Invited by Walter Damrosch to become principal flute of the New York Symphony in 1905, he founded the woodwind department at the Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard). His many ensembles toured the United States, building new audiences for chamber music and promoting French repertoire as well as new American music. Toff narrates Barrère's relationships with the finest musicians and artists of his day, among them Isadora Duncan, Yvette Guilbert, Andr'e Caplet, Paul Hindemith, Albert Roussel, Wallingford Riegger, and Henry Brant. The appendices of the book, which list Barrère's 170 premieres and the 50 works dedicated to him, are a resource for a new generation of performers.

Based on extensive archival research and oral histories in both France and the United States, this is the first biography of Barrère.

Contenuto

  • Introduction
  • The Fifer, 1876-93
  • The Faun, 1893-94
  • The Jeune Ecole, 1895-98
  • Fin de Siecle, 1898-99
  • 1900: In the Vanguard of Progress
  • The New Century, 1901-05
  • 1905: Enter Walter Damrosch
  • The World of the Damrosch Brothers, 1905-09
  • "A Musical Envoy from France," 1909-12
  • Yankee Entrepreneur, 1913-15
  • Alliances Francaises, 1915-17
  • Over Here, 1917-18
  • "The World's Greatest Flutist," 1918-21
  • "Pan Himself," 1921-26
  • "The Casals of the Flute," 1926-28
  • Jubilee, 1929-30
  • "I Heard The Great Barrere," 1931-36
  • "The Last Word in Chamber Music," 1936-40
  • "The Last Survivor," 1940-44
  • Epilogue: Monarch of the Flute
  • Appendix 1: Works Dedicated to Barrere and His Ensembles
  • Appendix 2: Works Premiered by Barrere and His Ensembles
  • Notes/ Bibliography
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