Musical Lives and Times Examined

Contents

In Lieu of Dedication: Fine Friends, Presiding Spirits-László
Somfai, Lyudmila Kovnatskaya, Richard L. Crocker

1. The Many Dangers of Music

LACI RESZE (LACI'S PART)
2. Liszt and Bad Taste
3. Goldmark's Queen: On Signifiers
4. Why You Cannot Leave Bartók Out
5. Liszt's Problems, Bartók's Problems, My Problems
6. Kodály's Pitiful Lament-and Mine

милина часть (MILA'S PART)
7. Russian Responses to Bach
8. So Much More Than a Composer
9. Rimsky-Korsakov Catches Up
10. Prokofieff's Problems-and Ours
11. Коле посвящается (for Kolya)
12. In from the Cold
13. Flesh and Blood Juke Box
14. Tales of Push and Pull
15. Was Shostakovich a Martyr, or Is That Just Fiction?
16. How to Win a Stalin Prize: Shostakovich and His Quintet

PARS RICARDI PRIMI (RICARDUS PRIMUS'S PART)
17. Shooting a White Elephant
18. Is This a Thing?
19. Exoticism and Authenticity
20. Pathos Is Banned
21. Everybody Gotta Be Someplace: On Context
22. Alluring Failure, Exhilarating Defeat

23. Envoi: All Was Foreseen; Nothing Was Foreseen
Acknowledgments
Index