And they all sang : the great musicians of the 20th century talk about their music / Studs Terkel
2006, First Edition. London : Granta. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #420981
ISBN: 186207898X
Physical description: xxii, 301 p. ; 24 cm. ; 22 cm. Contents: Prelude: An American original: John Jacob Niles --Vox humana: Tito Gobbi: Good and evil, Geraint Evans: The outsider --Leibestod: Jon Vickers, Birgit Nilsson --Salzburg: Josef Krips, Irmgard Seefried; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf --Diva: Rosa Raisa, Edith Mason --American-born: Marian Anderson, Richard Tucker, Catherine Malfitano --The Instrument: Andrés Segovia, Ravi Shankar, Alfred Brendel, Garrick Ohlsson, Nicolas Slonimsky --Composers: Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein --Impresario (1): Sol Hurok --Jazz: Lil Armstrong, Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Dizzy Gillespie, Betty Carter, Henry Threadgill, Keith Jarrett --Impresario (2): John Hammond Sr. --Spirituals, blues, folk, rock: Thomas A Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson, Big Bill Broonzy, Emanual Dunn, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jean Ritchie, Janis Joplin --Impresario (3): Alan Lomax --Variations on the theme: Larry Adler, Richard Dyer-Bennett, Julian Lee Rayford --Postlude: A graceful goodbye: Lotte Lehmann --Biographical notes. Subjects: Musicians ; Interviews; Interview.
Price: €12.95