The Great American Symphony: Music, the Depression, and War

Contents Preface 1. Preliminaries Attitudes The Times Symphonism Ascendant The Symphony's Public Role 2. Symphonies of the Mid- to Late Thirties The Romantic Symphony: Barber The Spiritual Symphony: Hanson The All-American Symphony: Harris The Muscular Symphony: Schuman The Civil Symphony: Carpenter Afterthought: Thomson and Cowell 3. Symphonies of the War Years Wartime Attitudes The Commemorative Symphony: Antheil The Aesthetic Symphony: Diamond The Dramatic Symphony: Bernstein The Masterly Symphony: Piston The Ambivalent Symphony: Barber The Theatrical Symphony: Blitzstein 4. Symphonies of the Immediate Postwar Years The Conservatorial Symphony: Moore The Dynamic Symphony: Mennin The Plain-Spoken Symphony: Thompson The August Symphony: Copland The Self-Reliant Symphony: Creston The Knotty Symphony: Sessions 5. American Symphonies after 1950 The Symphony in the Leanest Years The Symphony after 1990 Notes Selected Bibliography Index