Monarch of the Flute: The Life of Georges BarrèreOxford University Press, 2005 M08 18 - 464 páginas Georges Barrère (1876-1944) holds a preeminent place in the history of American flute playing. Best known for two of the landmark works that were written for him--the Poem of Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Density 21.5 by Edgard Varèse--he was the most prominent early exemplar of the Paris Conservatoire tradition in the United States and set a new standard for American woodwind performance. Barrère's story is a musical tale of two cities, and this book uses his life as a window onto musical life in Belle Epoque Paris and twentieth-century New York. Recurrent themes are the interactions of composers and performers; the promotion of new music; the management, personnel, and repertoire of symphony orchestras; the economic and social status of the orchestral and solo musician, including the increasing power of musicians' unions; the role of patronage, particularly women patrons; and the growth of chamber music as a professional performance medium. A student of Paul Taffanel at the Paris Conservatoire, by age eighteen Barrère played in the premiere of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. He went on to become solo flutist of the Concerts Colonne and to found the Sociètè Moderne d'Instruments á Vent, a pioneering woodwind ensemble that premiered sixty-one works by forty composers in its first ten years. Invited by Walter Damrosch to become principal flute of the New York Symphony in 1905, he founded the woodwind department at the Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard). His many ensembles toured the United States, building new audiences for chamber music and promoting French repertoire as well as new American music. Toff narrates Barrère's relationships with the finest musicians and artists of his day, among them Isadora Duncan, Yvette Guilbert, André Caplet, Paul Hindemith, Albert Roussel, Wallingford Riegger, and Henry Brant. The appendices of the book, which list Barrère's 170 premieres and the 50 works dedicated to him, are a resource for a new generation of performers. Based on extensive archival research and oral histories in both France and the United States, this is the first biography of Barrère. |
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In the Vanguard of Progress | 42 |
6 The New Century 190105 | 59 |
Enter Walter Damrosch | 78 |
14 Pan Himself 192126 | 196 |
15 The Casals of the Flute 192628 | 227 |
16 Jubilee 192830 | 243 |
17 I Heard the Great Barrère 193136 | 258 |
18 The Last Word in Chamber Music 193640 | 280 |
19 The Last Survivor 194044 | 299 |
Monarch of the Flute | 315 |
Works Dedicated to Barrère and His Ensembles | 329 |
8 The World of the Damrosch Brothers 190509 | 88 |
9 A Musical Envoy from France 190912 | 104 |
10 Yankee Entrepreneur 191215 | 120 |
11 Alliances Françaises 191517 | 141 |
12 Over Here 191718 | 156 |
13 The Worlds Greatest Flutist 191821 | 168 |
Works Premiered by Barrère and His Ensembles | 335 |
Notes | 351 |
Bibliography | 399 |
Index | 421 |
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