Beginning
READING LIST - 2020
MUSIC
1] Great Pianist Speak for Themselves Elyse Mach (204 p.)
2] After the Golden Age Kenneth Hamilton (304 p.)
3] Beethoven Hero Scott Burnham (209 p.)
4] The Tristan Chord, Wagner and Philosophy – Bryan Magee (398 p.)
5] Alban Berg, Master of the Smallest Link – Theodor W. Adorno (156 p.)
6] Marie d’Agoult, The Rebel Countess - Richard Bolster (278 p.)
(Biography of Author, Music Critic, Liszt’s influential mistress)
7] Music in My Time, and Other Reminiscences – Daniel Gregory Mason - (409 p.)
8] Selections from:
A] The Chopin Companion, Profiles of the Man and the Musician
B] The Age of Chopin, Interdisciplinary Inquires (8 A&B –app. 300 p.)
PHILOSOPHY:
Existentialism and Human Emotions - Jean-Paul Sartre
(Sect. 1, 55 p.)
*Above music selections #3 – philosophy based - #5 – philosophically slanted by Berg’s student Adorno - a philosopher/composer.
LITERATURE
Poetry:
1] The Southern Cross Charles Wright (b. 1935) (65 p.) *****star poetry
2] The Other Side of the River Charles Wright (b. 1935) (73 p.)
3] Ethan Benjamin Boldt Roger Weingarten (65 p.)
4] Old News James Broschart (56 p.)
Novels:
1] Innocence in Extremis John Hawkes (92 p.)
2] Straight is the Gate Andre Gide (148 p.)
3] The Collected Novels - Charles Stephenson Wright (b. 1932 – 2008) (387 p.)
(The Messenger / The WIG / Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About)
4] There Are Birds Nearby (work in progress) Chapters 1 & 2 Charles Carter
Short Stories:
1] Boule De Suif (Suet Dumpling) Guy de Maupassant (50 p.)
OTHER TOPICS:
Papermaking with Common Plants Helen Hiebert (107 p.)
Music Magazines & Journals
1] BBC MUSIC – monthly
2] Peabody Conservatory-John Hopkins Magazine - quarterly
3] Early Keyboard Journal, The Historical Keyboard Society of North America – annual (235 p.)
Other Magazines
1] Johns Hopkins Magazine – quarterly
2] Mount Vernon – quarterly
3] Discover, Science that Matters – monthly
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READING LIST – 2021
MUSIC
1] Schoenberg and His Circle, A Viennese Portrait – Joan Allen Smith (319 p.)
2] George Sand (Biographical Study) - Elizabeth Harlen (376 p.)
(Sand – novelist – extensive involvement with Chopin and other musicians.)
3] Music At German Courts, 1715-1760 - Changing Artistic Priorities
Multiple authors (484 p.)
4] The Bach Reader - The Life of J.S.Bach in Letters and Documents (462 p.)
5] Jean-Philippe Rameau, His Life and Work - Cuthbert Girdlestone
Chapters: 1} Life: The First Fifty Years 2} Chamber Music
13} Life: The Last Thirty Years 14} Theories (126 p.)
6] Beethoven and His Nephew
A Psychoanalytical Study of Their Relationship Editha and Richard Sterba
Editors: Hans T. David & Arthur Mendel Revised Ed. (474 p.)
7] Dane Rudhyar - His Music, Thought, and Art Deniz Ertan (275 p.)
LITERATURE
Novels
1] The Secret of Luca Ignazio Silone (124 p.)
2] Whistle Jacket John Hawkes (194 p.)
3] The Adventures of Haji Baba of Ispahan James Morier (456 p.)
(James Morier – British Diplomat, 1782-1849)
SHORT STORIES:
1] Laughable Loves (Collection) Milan Kundera
(242 p.)
OTHER TOPICS:
The Art of Papermaking Bernard Toale (119 p.)
Magazines
BBC Music Magazine – 12 issues
Discover Science Magazine – 12 issues
Johns Hopkins Quarterly Magazine
READING LIST – 2022
MUSIC
1] The Death of Franz Liszt – Based on the Unpublished Diary of His Pupil Lina Schmalhausen Edited by Alan Walker (224 p.)
2] Living With Liszt from The Diary of Carl Lachmund An American Pupil of Liszt 1882-1884 Edited by Alan Walker (421 p.)
3] Jussi Bjorling - Anna-Lisa Bjorling & Andrew Farkas (456 p.)
(A biography of the great Swedish tenor by his wife and collaborator A.F.)
4] The Eigtheenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons
Eva Badura-Skoda (492 p.)
5] Hans von Bulow: A Life and Times Alan Walker (510 p.)
6] The Life of Johannes Brahms Florence May (1905) (304 p.)
7] Remembering Beethoven Franz Wegeler & Ferdinand Ries (1838)
(200 p.)
8] Piano Mastery Harriette Brower (1909) (116 p.)
(Interviews with great pianist regarding technique and teaching.)
9] The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven (329 p.)
New Perspectives in music history and criticism - Cambridge University Press
ART
1] Francis Hodgkins Edited by Kenneth Clark Text Text, 18 p. - Color Plates, 31 - Bl.&Wh. Plates, 32 (81 p.)
The Penguin Modern Painters
2] David Jones Edited by Kenneth Clark Text Text, 18 p. – Color Plates, 31 – Bl.&Wh. Plates, 32 The Penguin Modern Painters
3] Kadinsky Great Modern Masters
Published by Cameo/Abrams Text, 64 p. - Color Plates, 74 – Illustrations, 84
PHILOSOPHY
1] French Humanism 1470-1600 - Edited by Werner L. Gundersheimer (269 p.)
(A collection of essays by 12 different authors)
LITERATURE
Novels:
1] Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
Amy Stanley – finalist for Pulitzer Prize, and other prestigious awards.
Published by Scribner (324 p.)
Short Stories:
1] Voyeurs Dennis James Bartel (223 p.)
Poetry:
1] HOWL and other poems Allen Ginsberg (40 p.)
Published by Woolf Haus - Classics
2] Ovid – Metamorphosis Books 1 & 6 (37 p.)
Magazines
BBC Music Magazine – 12 issues
Discover Science Magazine – 12 issues
Johns Hopkins Quarterly Magazine
READING LIST - 2023
HISTORY
1] Frederic the Great – King of Prussia Tim Blanning (653 p.)
(Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge, retired 2009)
(Fellow of Sidney Sussex and the British Academy)
MUSIC
2] Bolognese Instrumental Music 1660-1710
Spiritual Comfort, Courtly Delight, and Commercial Triumph Gregory Barnett (389 p.)
3] Gustav Mahler Bruno Walter
with a biographical Essay by Ernst Krenek
published by Dover books (236 p.)
ART
1] Judith Godwin – Style and Grace
Catalogue from Exhibit at the Art Museum of Western Virginia 1997-98
(Second generation Abstract Expressionism (63 p. 24 color plates)
LITERATURE
Novels:
1] Castle to Castle Louis-Ferdinand Celine
published by Dalkey Archive Press (p. 359)
(Recommended – Celine’s first novel, Journey to the End of the Night (1932)– New Directions or Dalkey Press. (509 p.)
Reviews: “He writes like a lunging live wire, crackling and wayward, full of hidden danger.” – Alfred Kazin
“It is not reality which Celine paints but the hallucinations which reality provokes. I find here the accents of a remarkable sensibility.” – Andre Gide
(Another first novel to recommend: Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann – winner of a Pulitzer Prize.)
2] Death on the Installment Plan Louis-Ferdinand Celine A New Directions Paperbook
(588 p.)
3] The Setting Sun Robert Steven Habermann
---a short novel about the Roman Emperor Flavius Heraclius --- highly recommended.4]
4] My Music My Drinking & Me - The Memoirs of Jean Sibelius
A novel by Caroline J. Sinclair MAKbooks
(243 p.)
Poetry
The Spirit By The Deep Well Tank Drummond Hadley published by Golliard/Sante Fe Grossman (35 p.)
The History Of Sleep Steven Schutzman pub. by Gallimaufry (46 p.)
BELOW IS JUST A COPY OF ALL OF THE ABOVE
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READING LIST - 2020
MUSIC
1] Great Pianist Speak for Themselves Elyse Mach (204 p.)
2] After the Golden Age Kenneth Hamilton (304 p.)
3] Beethoven Hero Scott Burnham (209 p.)
4] The Tristan Chord, Wagner and Philosophy – Bryan Magee (398 p.)
5] Alban Berg, Master of the Smallest Link – Theodor W. Adorno (156 p.)
6] Marie d’Agoult, The Rebel Countess - Richard Bolster (278 p.)
(Biography of Author, Music Critic, Liszt’s influential mistress)
7] Music in My Time, and Other Reminiscences – Daniel Gregory Mason - (409 p.)
8] Selections from:
A] The Chopin Companion, Profiles of the Man and the Musician
B] The Age of Chopin, Interdisciplinary Inquires (8 A&B –app. 300 p.)
PHILOSOPHY:
Existentialism and Human Emotions - Jean-Paul Sartre
(Sect. 1, 55 p.)
*Above music selections #3 – philosophy based - #5 – philosophically slanted by Berg’s student Adorno - a philosopher/composer.
LITERATURE
Poetry:
1] The Southern Cross Charles Wright (b. 1935) (65 p.) *****star poetry
2] The Other Side of the River Charles Wright (b. 1935) (73 p.)
3] Ethan Benjamin Boldt Roger Weingarten (65 p.)
4] Old News James Broschart (56 p.)
Novels:
1] Innocence in Extremis John Hawkes (92 p.)
2] Straight is the Gate Andre Gide (148 p.)
3] The Collected Novels - Charles Stephenson Wright (b. 1932 – 2008) (387 p.)
(The Messenger / The WIG / Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About)
4] There Are Birds Nearby (work in progress) Chapters 1 & 2 Charles Carter
Short Stories:
1] Boule De Suif (Suet Dumpling) Guy de Maupassant (50 p.)
OTHER TOPICS:
Papermaking with Common Plants Helen Hiebert (107 p.)
Music Magazines & Journals
1] BBC MUSIC – monthly
2] Peabody Conservatory-John Hopkins Magazine - quarterly
3] Early Keyboard Journal, The Historical Keyboard Society of North America – annual (235 p.)
Other Magazines
1] Johns Hopkins Magazine – quarterly
2] Mount Vernon – quarterly
3] Discover, Science that Matters – monthly
_________________________________________________________
READING LIST – 2021
MUSIC
1] Schoenberg and His Circle, A Viennese Portrait – Joan Allen Smith (319 p.)
2] George Sand (Biographical Study) - Elizabeth Harlen (376 p.)
(Sand – novelist – extensive involvement with Chopin and other musicians.)
3] Music At German Courts, 1715-1760 - Changing Artistic Priorities
Multiple authors (484 p.)
4] The Bach Reader - The Life of J.S.Bach in Letters and Documents (462 p.)
5] Jean-Philippe Rameau, His Life and Work - Cuthbert Girdlestone
Chapters: 1} Life: The First Fifty Years 2} Chamber Music
13} Life: The Last Thirty Years 14} Theories (126 p.)
6] Beethoven and His Nephew
A Psychoanalytical Study of Their Relationship Editha and Richard Sterba
Editors: Hans T. David & Arthur Mendel Revised Ed. (474 p.)
7] Dane Rudhyar - His Music, Thought, and Art Deniz Ertan (275 p.)
LITERATURE
Novels
1] The Secret of Luca Ignazio Silone (124 p.)
2] Whistle Jacket John Hawkes (194 p.)
3] The Adventures of Haji Baba of Ispahan James Morier (456 p.)
(James Morier – British Diplomat, 1782-1849)
SHORT STORIES:
1] Laughable Loves (Collection) Milan Kundera
(242 p.)
OTHER TOPICS:
The Art of Papermaking Bernard Toale (119 p.)
Magazines
BBC Music Magazine – 12 issues
Discover Science Magazine – 12 issues
Johns Hopkins Quarterly Magazine
READING LIST – 2022
MUSIC
1] The Death of Franz Liszt – Based on the Unpublished Diary of His Pupil Lina Schmalhausen Edited by Alan Walker (224 p.)
2] Living With Liszt from The Diary of Carl Lachmund An American Pupil of Liszt 1882-1884 Edited by Alan Walker (421 p.)
3] Jussi Bjorling - Anna-Lisa Bjorling & Andrew Farkas (456 p.)
(A biography of the great Swedish tenor by his wife and collaborator A.F.)
4] The Eigtheenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons
Eva Badura-Skoda (492 p.)
5] Hans von Bulow: A Life and Times Alan Walker (510 p.)
6] The Life of Johannes Brahms Florence May (1905) (304 p.)
7] Remembering Beethoven Franz Wegeler & Ferdinand Ries (1838)
(200 p.)
8] Piano Mastery Harriette Brower (1909) (116 p.)
(Interviews with great pianist regarding technique and teaching.)
9] The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven (329 p.)
New Perspectives in music history and criticism - Cambridge University Press
ART
1] Francis Hodgkins Edited by Kenneth Clark Text Text, 18 p. - Color Plates, 31 - Bl.&Wh. Plates, 32 (81 p.)
The Penguin Modern Painters
2] David Jones Edited by Kenneth Clark Text Text, 18 p. – Color Plates, 31 – Bl.&Wh. Plates, 32 The Penguin Modern Painters
3] Kadinsky Great Modern Masters
Published by Cameo/Abrams Text, 64 p. - Color Plates, 74 – Illustrations, 84
PHILOSOPHY
1] French Humanism 1470-1600 - Edited by Werner L. Gundersheimer (269 p.)
(A collection of essays by 12 different authors)
LITERATURE
Novels:
1] Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
Amy Stanley – finalist for Pulitzer Prize, and other prestigious awards.
Published by Scribner (324 p.)
Short Stories:
1] Voyeurs Dennis James Bartel (223 p.)
Poetry:
1] HOWL and other poems Allen Ginsberg (40 p.)
Published by Woolf Haus - Classics
2] Ovid – Metamorphosis Books 1 & 6 (37 p.)
Magazines
BBC Music Magazine – 12 issues
Discover Science Magazine – 12 issues
Johns Hopkins Quarterly Magazine
READING LIST - 2023
HISTORY
1] Frederic the Great – King of Prussia Tim Blanning (653 p.)
(Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge, retired 2009)
(Fellow of Sidney Sussex and the British Academy)
MUSIC
2] Bolognese Instrumental Music 1660-1710
Spiritual Comfort, Courtly Delight, and Commercial Triumph Gregory Barnett (389 p.)
3] Gustav Mahler Bruno Walter
with a biographical Essay by Ernst Krenek
published by Dover books (236 p.)
ART
1] Judith Godwin – Style and Grace
Catalogue from Exhibit at the Art Museum of Western Virginia 1997-98
(Second generation Abstract Expressionism (63 p. 24 color plates)
LITERATURE
Novel:
1] Castle to Castle Louis-Ferdinand Celine
published by Dalkey Archive Press (p. 359)
(Recommended – Celine’s first novel, Journey to the End of the Night (1932)– New Directions or Dalkey Press. (509 p.)
Reviews: “He writes like a lunging live wire, crackling and wayward, full of hidden danger.” – Alfred Kazin
“It is not reality which Celine paints but the hallucinations which reality provokes. I find here the accents of a remarkable sensibility.” – Andre Gide
(Another first novel to recommend: Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann – winner of a Pulitzer Prize.)
2] Death on the Installment Plan Louis-Ferdinand Celine A New Directions Paperbook
(588 p.)
3] The Setting Sun Robert Steven Habermann
---a short novel about the Roman Emperor Flavius Heraclius --- highly recommended.
4] My Music, My Drinking & Me - The Memoirs of Jean Sibelius
A novel by Caroline J Sinclair MAKbooks
(243 p.)
Poetry
The Spirit By The Deep Well Tank Drummond Hadley published by Golliard/Sante Fe Grossman (35 p.)
The History Of Sleep Steven Schutzman pub. by Gallimaufry (46 p.)
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