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Stuart Isacoff is a pianist, composer, and critic; he was the founding editor of Piano Today magazine. A winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music, he is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and other publications. Isacoff gives lectures and performances at numerous venues, which have included the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He currently teaches at the SUNY at Purchase.
List of Illustrations | p. xi |
A Gathering of Traditions | p. 3 |
The Piano Is Born | p. 18 |
The First Piano Superstar | p. 32 |
Piano Fever | p. 51 |
Performers on the Road | p. 65 |
The Four Sounds | p. 85 |
The Combustibles | |
The New Testament | p. 94 |
Still Setting Blazes | p. 113 |
The Alchemists | |
Chemistry | p. 126 |
Shock and Awe | p. 150 |
The Rhythmitizers | |
The American Adventure Begins | p. 162 |
All That Jazz | p. 176 |
Rock Solid or Teetering on the Brink | p. 186 |
The Melodists | |
Straight from the Heart | p. 195 |
Breezy and Unflappable | p. 218 |
The Cultivated and the Vernacular | p. 230 |
The Russians Are Coming | p. 242 |
The Germans and Their Close Relations | p. 263 |
Keys to the World | p. 276 |
On the Cutting Edge | p. 295 |
Everything Old Is New Again | p. 308 |
Appendix: Supplementary Notes | p. 321 |
Contributor Biographies | p. 331 |
Acknowledgments | p. 333 |
Notes on Sources | p. 335 |
Index | p. 347 |
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