Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries A Centennial Symposium

Subjects:

• The Arts » Classical Music
• Multicultural Studies » Slavic Studies

Reviews:

• A classic of this kind, this invigorating book will prove to be a useful tool for all those whose field of scholarship is to be found in Russian music and culture in the second half of the nineteenth century.
  —The Russian Review

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Tchaikovsky as Our Contemporary by Alexandar Mihailovic
• Changing Perspectives on the Composer
• Tchaikovsky: A New View--A Centennial Essay by Richard Taruskin
• Tchaikovsky and His Music in Anglo-American Criticism, 1890s-1950s by Malcolm Hamrick Brown
• The Tchaikovsky Myths: A Critical Reassessment by Alexander Poznansky
• Tchaikovsky and His Musical Contemporaries
• Tchaikovsky and Wagner: A Reassessment by Rosamund Bartlett
• Analysis and Influence: A Comparison of Rhythmic Structures in the Instrumental Music of Schumann and Tchaikovsky by Joseph C. Kraus
• Truth vs. Beauty: Comparative Text Settings by Musorgsky and Tchaikovsky by Leslie Kearney
• The Oprichnik: Tchaikovsky's "Lost" Opera
• Culture and Nationalism: Tchaikovsky's Visions of Russia in The Oprichink by Susan Beam Eggers
• The Intrigue of Love and Illusion in Tchaikovsky's The Oprichink by Anne Swartz
• The Mature Operatic Composer
• Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin: Tatiana and Lensky, the Third Couple by Truman Bullard
• "But Was My Eugene Happy?": Musical and Dramatic Tensions in Eugene Onegin by Byron Nelson
• Musical Historicism in The Queen of Spades by James Parakilas
• Tchaikovsky, Russian Orthodoxy, and Nationalism
• Tchaikovsky's Roots in the Russian Choral Tradition by Olga Dolskaya
• A Stranger in a Strange Land: Tchaikovsky as a Composer of Church Music by Vladimir Morosan
• Tchaikovsky, the Tsars, and the Tsarist National Anthem by William H. Parsons
• Other Perspectives, Contemporary and Modern
• Tchaikovsky: The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name by Samuel Lipman
• The Image of the Composer in Modest Tchaikovsky's Play The Symphony by Stephany Gould
• Exploding the Romantic Myth: Ken Russell's The Music Lovers by James H. Krukones
• Round-Table Discussions
• Biographical Issues in Tchaikovsky Scholarship, Moderated by John Marcus
• Tchaikovsky in American and Russian Musical Education, Moderated by Joel Sachs
• Tchaikovsky's Ballets: Interpretation and Performance, Moderated by Jeanne Fuchs
• Appendix I: Musical Examples
• Appendix II: Conference Program
• Index