Music After Modernism

Contents: Preface : the need for revaluation -- The holy family of Bayreuth -- Wagner on Broadway -- Schoenberg's survival -- The stature of Stravinsky -- Copland as American composer -- The Mahler everyone loves -- And still Rachmaninoff -- Yesterday's new music -- The Lhevinnes : four hands at one piano -- Horowitz : king of pianists -- Menuhin : portrait of a prodigy -- The performer's predicament -- In the matter of interpretation -- Does performance matter? -- The rise of modernist taste : Ezra Pound -- Both sides of the record -- The prodigy in old age -- The dubious art of contests --Summing up : a tour d'horizon.