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Alexander Tcherepnin: The Saga of a Russian Emigre Composer.(Book review)
Alexander Tcherepnin: The Saga of a Russian Emigre Composer. By Ludmila Korabelnikova. Translated by Anna Winestein. Edited by Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin. (Russian Music Studies.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. [xvi, 264 p. ISBN-13: 9780253349385. $39.95.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references, index, discography.
Although not as well known as some of his contemporaries, Alexander Nikolaevich Tcherepnin (1899-1977) built an impressive life for himself as a composer, pianist, and teacher. His career spanned almost three quarters of a century, spread over three continents, and brought him into contact with some of the most ...
- Justice for Tcherepnin.(On Music)(composer Alexander Tcherepnin)(Biography)
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Simon, Jolm September 1, 2003 700+ words
A FAMILY of composers is a rare and wonderful thing, especially in modern times. Morepower to the Tcherepnins: grandfather Nikolai (1873-1945), composer, conductor and pedagogue; father Alexander (1899-1977), composer and pianist; and composer sons Serge, designer, manufacturer and marketer of the
- Ivan Tcherepnin creates a unique Double Concerto
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff May 28, 1995 700+ words
...1873-1945) and his father was Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977). Tcherepnin's...tradition: The rondo finale of Alexander Tcherepnin's Harmonica Concerto (1956...composed before Ivan came to America. Alexander Tcherepnin was a musician of wide-ranging...
- Concert honors family's musical contributions.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Pfeifer, Ellen August 27, 1999 700+ words
...Society, the occasion highlights the 100th birthday of Alexander Tcherepnin and serves as a memorial for his son, Ivan, who died...Russian-born composer, pianist, conductor and teacher Alexander Tcherepnin is considered the father of contemporary Chinese music...
- Not modern but timely. (On Music).(Alexandre Tansman)
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Simon, John March 1, 2002 700+ words
...as the School of Paris, comprising the Czech Bohuslav Martinu, the Romanian Marcel Mihalovici, the Russian Alexander Tcherepnin, the Hungarian Tibor Harsanyi, and the Swiss Conrad Beck. Only a modest fragment of Tansman's music is available...
- Harvard's Tcherepnin wins top music award
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff April 24, 1996 700+ words
...This is the result of an amazing sequence of events that goes back to my being born! My father, the composer Alexander Tcherepnin, used to say that your pieces are like your children and that you should never abandon them. I haven't done...
- Doubling the mastery of world-class soloists
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff June 5, 1995 700+ words
...John Coltrane; there is family history in references to Tcherepnin's father and grandfather, Nikolai and Alexander Tcherepnin. But the music primarily summarizes the period 1890-1930, and it mediates between the heroic resolve of the...
- The sorrows of Shostakovich. (On Music).(composer Dmitri Shostakovich)
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Simon, John May 1, 2002 700+ words
...or the easy songfulness of the Italians. And Shostakovich, unlike the more cosmopolitan Igor Stravinsky or Alexander Tcherepnin, was as Russian as the vodka he loved. He was also intensely private, elusive, quirky, complex, and frequently...
- Anthology of Impressionistic Piano Music--Intermediate- to Early-Advanced Works...
- Magazine article from: American Music Teacher Hahn, Christopher June 1, 2005 700+ words
...include Maurice Ravel (Sonatine), Charles Griffes (The Vale of Dreams), Cyril Scott (Lotus Land), Alexander Tcherepnin (Flower-Drum), Frederico Mompou (Jeunes filles au jardin), Selim Palmgren (May Night), Alexander Gretchaninoff...
