Believe Your Ears

Life of a Lyric Composer

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Music Styles, Classical & Opera, Classical, Biography & Memoir, Composers & Musicians
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Author: Kirke Mechem ISBN: 9781442250772
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Publication: July 9, 2015
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Language: English
Author: Kirke Mechem
ISBN: 9781442250772
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication: July 9, 2015
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English

Believe Your Ears: Life of a Lyric Composer is the memoir of composer Kirke Mechem, whose unorthodox path to music provides a fascinating narrative. He worked as a newspaper reporter, a touring tennis player and a Stanford creative writing major before studying composition and conducting at Harvard. His lyric style belongs to no particular “school,” avoiding the trends, isms, experiments, fads and lunacies of the period. He asks music lovers to believe their own ears, not the lectures of “experts.” Along the way, readers will meet Dimitri Shostakovich, Wallace Stegner, Billie Jean King, The Grateful Dead, Benjamin Britten, Bill Tilden and Aaron Copland—a who’s who of talent in Mechem’s storied career.

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Believe Your Ears: Life of a Lyric Composer is the memoir of composer Kirke Mechem, whose unorthodox path to music provides a fascinating narrative. He worked as a newspaper reporter, a touring tennis player and a Stanford creative writing major before studying composition and conducting at Harvard. His lyric style belongs to no particular “school,” avoiding the trends, isms, experiments, fads and lunacies of the period. He asks music lovers to believe their own ears, not the lectures of “experts.” Along the way, readers will meet Dimitri Shostakovich, Wallace Stegner, Billie Jean King, The Grateful Dead, Benjamin Britten, Bill Tilden and Aaron Copland—a who’s who of talent in Mechem’s storied career.

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