Catalogue Raisonne As Memoir A Composer's Life |
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Author:
| Argento, Dominick |
ISBN: | 978-0-8166-4505-3 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2004 |
Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $22.95 |
Book Description:
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In a lifetime of compositions that engaged Western culture from Chekhov to Miss Manners, from Don Juan to the Bremen Town musicians, Dominick Arkento has encouraged audiences to focus on the hopes and fears that have defined human existance and their own lives. Now he invites us to share his own, illuminating the nature of musical composition and its hold on the human imagination.
In a lifetime of compositions that engaged Western culture from Chekhov to Miss Manners, from Don Juan to the Bremen Town musicians, Dominick Arkento has encouraged audiences to focus on the hopes and fears that have defined human existance and their own lives. Now he invites us to share his own, illuminating the nature of musical composition and its hold on the human imagination.