Pied Piper: The Many Lives of Noah Greenberg
| Author: | Gollin, James | |
| Year: | 2023 | |
| Pages: | 428 | |
| ISBN: | 1-4955-1123-5 978-1-4955-1123-3 | |
| Price: | $259.95 + shipping | |
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This is a biography of Noah Greenberg. "Before Noah Greenberg, a huge repertoire, indeed more than half of the entirety of Western music, was known only to scholars and was dry, dusty, and abstract even to them: the music of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Baroque. It became Noah's mission to discover, explore and interpret this music and bring it to life. ...In his brief life--he died at age forty-seven, in 1966--Noah Greenberg's greatest service to music was to bring to life a wonderful repertory. But scarcely less important was his impassioned determination to have early music performed as it should be performed. That is, with due care for its sonorities and due respect for historical accuracy, but also--and above all--with expressive richness and fullness." -James Gollin
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The trumpet and the lions (January 1958)
2. Princeling in the Bronx (1919-1932)
3. Music, politics, romance (1933-1936)
4. Joining the Movement (1937-1939)
5. Marriage and world war (1940-1942)
6. The biggest lathe in San Pedro (1943-1944)
7. Eniwetok to Murmansk (1944-1945)
8. "Now that it's over" (1945-1948)
9. Gran piano, "great binge" (1949-1950)
10. Paris and Prades (1950)
11. End of a marriage, start of a career (1951-1952)
12. Toni (1952)
13. Festino and John Blow (1952-1953)
14. Inventing Pro Musica (1953-1954)
15. At the "Y" (1953)
16. Getting on the uptown map (1954-1954)
17. Auden, Kirstein, and baby Anne (1954)
18. First summer (1954)
19. Success and insecurity (1953-1955)
20. On the money trail (1955-56)
21. 865 West End Avenue (1956)
22. Manuscript Egerton 2615 (1953-1958)
23. An 11th-century "smash hit" (1958)
24. Thinking Big (1958)
25. Needed: new voices (1958-1959)
26. A friendly bear at 40 (1959)
27. Scouting out Europe (1959-1960)
28. Pro Musica International (1960)
29. A wolf by the ears (1961-1962)
30. His most powerful patron (1963)
31. "We got it!" (March 1963)
32. Anxieties (February 1964)
33. Moscow to Tblisi (October 1964)
34. Tblisi to Leningrad (November 1964)
35. A hotel room in Rio (July 1965)
36. Two deaths (January 1966)
37. Aftermath (1966-1974)
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Discography
Index
1. The trumpet and the lions (January 1958)
2. Princeling in the Bronx (1919-1932)
3. Music, politics, romance (1933-1936)
4. Joining the Movement (1937-1939)
5. Marriage and world war (1940-1942)
6. The biggest lathe in San Pedro (1943-1944)
7. Eniwetok to Murmansk (1944-1945)
8. "Now that it's over" (1945-1948)
9. Gran piano, "great binge" (1949-1950)
10. Paris and Prades (1950)
11. End of a marriage, start of a career (1951-1952)
12. Toni (1952)
13. Festino and John Blow (1952-1953)
14. Inventing Pro Musica (1953-1954)
15. At the "Y" (1953)
16. Getting on the uptown map (1954-1954)
17. Auden, Kirstein, and baby Anne (1954)
18. First summer (1954)
19. Success and insecurity (1953-1955)
20. On the money trail (1955-56)
21. 865 West End Avenue (1956)
22. Manuscript Egerton 2615 (1953-1958)
23. An 11th-century "smash hit" (1958)
24. Thinking Big (1958)
25. Needed: new voices (1958-1959)
26. A friendly bear at 40 (1959)
27. Scouting out Europe (1959-1960)
28. Pro Musica International (1960)
29. A wolf by the ears (1961-1962)
30. His most powerful patron (1963)
31. "We got it!" (March 1963)
32. Anxieties (February 1964)
33. Moscow to Tblisi (October 1964)
34. Tblisi to Leningrad (November 1964)
35. A hotel room in Rio (July 1965)
36. Two deaths (January 1966)
37. Aftermath (1966-1974)
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Discography
Index