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Reflections of an American Composer.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
by Arthur Berger. University of California Press (2000 Center Ct., #303, Berkeley, CA 94704), 2002. 277pp., $44.95.
For those of us who did some graduate study in music theory three or four decades ago but desire to pursue our knowledge in theory education to meet our students' needs, Reflections of an American Composer by Arthur Berger could serve as a source of ideas and information about what has been happening.
Berger, born in New York City in 1912, was educated in the New York and Boston areas and has spent all his life living and working in the Northeast. A few years teaching at Mills College and working there with Darius Milhaud and a couple years studying in Paris with Boulanger are the exceptions. Apparently, his compositional tastes have grown from neo-classic style (Although he dislikes the label.) of Stravinsky (fostered by Boulanger) to the new music style of Milton Babbit.
To read this book is like visiting my one-time music history and composition teacher from my alma mater. The book is not written in the usual first person, auto-biographic style. (I had to look up Berger's birth date in my Baker's.) Berger has had a very full life as a composer, scholar, philosopher, musicologist, teacher, theorist-analyst, music critic, journalist and publisher. According to the author, all of these have been necessary to make his life successful. As a result of his areas of activity, he can, and does, speak well ...
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