Circle of winners : how the Guggenheim Foundation composition awards shaped American music culture /
Von Glahn, Denise, 1950-
Circle of winners : how the Guggenheim Foundation composition awards shaped American music culture / How the Guggenheim Foundation composition awards shaped American music culture Denise Von Glahn. - 1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : illustrations. - Music in American life . - Music in American life. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"An essential high culture institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has both supported and molded American musical culture. Denise Von Glahn examines the Foundation and its immense influence from the organization's prehistory and origins through the onset of World War II. Funded by the Guggenheim mining fortune, the Foundation took early shape from the efforts of Carroll Wilson, Frank Aydelotte, and Henry Allen Moe--three Rhodes Scholars who initially struggled to envision and implement the organization's ambitious goals. Von Glahn also examines the career of the longtime musical advisor Thomas Whitney Surette while profiling early awardees Aaron Copland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, William Grant Still, Roger Sessions, George Antheil, and Carlos Ch�avez. She examines the processes behind their selection, their values and aesthetics, and their relationships with the insiders and others who championed their work"--
0252054415 9780252054419
22573/cats5070512 JSTOR
2022056909
Surette, Thomas Whitney, 1861-1941.
Surette, Thomas Whitney, 1861-1941.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation--History.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
1900-1999
Music--Endowments.
Music--History and criticism.--North America--20th century
Music--History and criticism.--Latin America--20th century
MUSIC / General
Music.
Music--Endowments.
Latin America.
North America.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
ML26 / .J644 2023
780.797
Circle of winners : how the Guggenheim Foundation composition awards shaped American music culture / How the Guggenheim Foundation composition awards shaped American music culture Denise Von Glahn. - 1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : illustrations. - Music in American life . - Music in American life. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"An essential high culture institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has both supported and molded American musical culture. Denise Von Glahn examines the Foundation and its immense influence from the organization's prehistory and origins through the onset of World War II. Funded by the Guggenheim mining fortune, the Foundation took early shape from the efforts of Carroll Wilson, Frank Aydelotte, and Henry Allen Moe--three Rhodes Scholars who initially struggled to envision and implement the organization's ambitious goals. Von Glahn also examines the career of the longtime musical advisor Thomas Whitney Surette while profiling early awardees Aaron Copland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, William Grant Still, Roger Sessions, George Antheil, and Carlos Ch�avez. She examines the processes behind their selection, their values and aesthetics, and their relationships with the insiders and others who championed their work"--
0252054415 9780252054419
22573/cats5070512 JSTOR
2022056909
Surette, Thomas Whitney, 1861-1941.
Surette, Thomas Whitney, 1861-1941.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation--History.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
1900-1999
Music--Endowments.
Music--History and criticism.--North America--20th century
Music--History and criticism.--Latin America--20th century
MUSIC / General
Music.
Music--Endowments.
Latin America.
North America.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
ML26 / .J644 2023
780.797