Carol J Oja: 2 books
Making Music Modern
New York in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2000
New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and modern music, who along with writers, painters, and jazz musicians, were at the heart of early modernism...
Bernstein Meets Broadway
Collaborative Art in a Time of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Winner of the 2015 Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society When Leonard Bernstein first arrived in New York City, he was an unknown artist working with other brilliant twentysomethings, notably Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green. By the end of the 1940s,...