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Monarch of the Flute
The Life of Georges Barr`ere
Nancy Toff
464 pages
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26 illus.
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234x156mm
978-0-19-994245-9
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Paperback
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27 September 2012
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- First biography of Barrère.
- Based on archival research and oral histories in both France and the United States.
Georges Barr`ere (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 Var`ese—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.
Barr`ere'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 Barr`ere 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 Barr`ere's relationships with the finest musicians and artists of his day, among them Isadora Duncan, Yvette Guilbert, Andr'e Caplet, Paul Hindemith, Albert Roussel, Wallingford Riegger, and Henry Brant. The appendices of the book, which list Barr`ere'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
Barr`ere.Readership: Those interested in the history of the flute, music history in France and the United States in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century
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Nancy Toff Nancy Toff is author of The Flute Book, The Development of the Modern Flute, and Georges Barrère and the Flute in America and is a past president of the New York Flute Club. Toff is the 2012 winner of the National Flute Association's National Service Award.
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Introduction
1.The Fifer, 1876-93
2.The Faun, 1893-94
3.The Jeune Ecole, 1895-98
4.Fin de Siecle, 1898-99
5.1900: In the Vanguard of Progress
6.The New Century, 1901-05
7.1905: Enter Walter Damrosch
8.The World of the Damrosch Brothers, 1905-09
9."A Musical Envoy from France," 1909-12
10.Yankee Entrepreneur, 1913-15
11.Alliances Francaises, 1915-17
12.Over Here, 1917-18
13."The World's Greatest Flutist," 1918-21
14."Pan Himself," 1921-26
15."The Casals of the Flute," 1926-28
16.Jubilee, 1929-30
17."I Heard The Great Barrere," 1931-36
18."The Last Word in Chamber Music," 1936-40
19."The Last Survivor," 1940-44
Epilogue: Monarch of the Flute
Appendix 1: Works Dedicated to Barrere and His Ensembles
Appendix 2: Works Premiered by Barrere and His Ensembles
Notes/ Bibliography
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