Book Description
**** One of the most celebrated references on the music of this century, cited in BCL3, Sheehy, and Walford. Beginning with January 1, 1900, it illuminates every significant day in music history, highlighting debuts, deaths, performances, and an abundance of entertaining music trivia. This edition revises and combines the 1971 fourth edition and its 1986 supplement with descriptive chronologies from 1985 through 1991. It retains the now classic preface to the fourth edition, the Letters and Documents section that includes letters to Slonimsky from Schoenberg, Ives, Varese, and George Bernard Shaw, and the Dictionary of Terms. This edition celebrates Slonimsky's 100th birthday (April 27th). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR