TY  - BOOK
AU  - Von Glahn,Denise
TI  - Circle of winners: how the Guggenheim Foundation composition awards shaped American music culture 
T2  - Music in American life
SN  - 0252054415
AV  - ML26 .J644 2023
U1  - 780.797 23/eng/20221130
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Surette, Thomas Whitney,
KW  - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Music
KW  - Endowments
KW  - North America
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Latin America
KW  - MUSIC / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
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