Catalogue Raisonne As Memoir: A Composers Life
By (Author) Dominick Argento
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
15th September 2004
United States
Hardback
256
Width 152mm, Height 203mm, Spine 23mm
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.