The Musical Migration And Ernst Toch
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Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
When the shadow of fascism fell across Europe in the 1930s, a generation of brilliant composers, conductors, and musicians were forced to flee their homelands, forever altering the cultural landscape of the United States — and none embodies this upheaval more powerfully than Ernst Toch. The Musical Migration and Ernst Toch chronicles the extraordinary mass exodus of European musicians to America, tracing Toch's remarkable journey from his celebrated beginnings in Vienna to his reinvention as a Hollywood film composer and Pulitzer Prize-winning symphonist in Los Angeles, all while navigating the psychological and artistic dislocations of exile. Diane Peacock Jezic constructs a meticulous and deeply humane portrait that situates Toch's personal odyssey within the broader cultural and political forces reshaping twentieth-century music. Drawing on rich archival research and interviews, she illuminates the tensions between Old World artistic identity and New World commercial pressures, revealing how the migration transformed not only the careers of individual musicians but the very fabric of American musical life. Written with scholarly rigour and a genuine passion for her subject, this biography leaves the reader asking a haunting question: what other masterworks might have existed had history been kinder to those who created them?
Author: Diane Peacock Jezic
Format: Hardback
Published: 1989, Iowa State University Press
Genre: Music
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
When the shadow of fascism fell across Europe in the 1930s, a generation of brilliant composers, conductors, and musicians were forced to flee their homelands, forever altering the cultural landscape of the United States — and none embodies this upheaval more powerfully than Ernst Toch. The Musical Migration and Ernst Toch chronicles the extraordinary mass exodus of European musicians to America, tracing Toch's remarkable journey from his celebrated beginnings in Vienna to his reinvention as a Hollywood film composer and Pulitzer Prize-winning symphonist in Los Angeles, all while navigating the psychological and artistic dislocations of exile. Diane Peacock Jezic constructs a meticulous and deeply humane portrait that situates Toch's personal odyssey within the broader cultural and political forces reshaping twentieth-century music. Drawing on rich archival research and interviews, she illuminates the tensions between Old World artistic identity and New World commercial pressures, revealing how the migration transformed not only the careers of individual musicians but the very fabric of American musical life. Written with scholarly rigour and a genuine passion for her subject, this biography leaves the reader asking a haunting question: what other masterworks might have existed had history been kinder to those who created them?