Irving Fine: An American Composer in His Time (Lives in Music) [Hardcover]

Phillip Ramey (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 334 pages
• Publisher: Pendragon Pr (December 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576471160
• ISBN-13: 978-1576471166
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,970,166 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The detailed portrait of extraordinary musician and educator, February 7, 2006

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This review is from: Irving Fine: An American Composer in His Time (Lives in Music) (Hardcover)

The latest of the "Lives in Music" series, Irving Fine: An American Composer In His Time is the detailed portrait of extraordinary musician and educator Irving Fine (1914-1962). Covering Fine's early life, his accomplishments as a composer and pianist, his brief teaching career at his alma mater Harvard University, his encounters with veiled anti- semitism, his subsequent success at Brandeis University, and much more. Pulitzer prize-winning composer Richard Wernick provides a foreword describing the growth and change of Fine's compositional style and aesthetic; while author and composer Phillip Ramey draws heavily upon the testimony of those who knew Fine best to craft an eminently readable and insightful study of a creative genius.