by Alex Ross
Jones, A. M.
Jones, Sissieretta
Jonny spielt auf (Krenek)
Jonson, Ben: Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman
Joplin, Scott: “The Entertainer,” “Maple Leaf Rag,” Treemonisha
Joseph, Charles
Joyce, James Ulysses
Judd, Donald
Juilliard School
Juilliard String Quartet
Junod, Henri-Alexandre
Kagel, Mauricio Anagrama Ludwig van Sur scène
Kahan, Sylvia
Kahn, Otto
Kaiser, Georg
Kajanus, Robert
Kalevala
Kalhor, Kayhan
Kallman, Chester
Kandinsky, Vassily
Karajan, Herbert von
Karmen, Roman
Karpath, Ludwig
Kasenkina, Oksana
Kater, Michael
Kaufman, Isidor
Keaton, Buster
Kennan, George
Kennedy, Jacqueline
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Michael
Kerensky, Alexander
Kern, Jerome “Ol’ Man River,” Show Boat
Kerr, Alfred
Kerr, Harrison
Kerzhentsev, Platon
Kessler, Harry
Kestenberg, Leo
Khachaturian, Aram
Khrennikov, Tikhon
Khrushchev, Nikita
Khubov, Georgiy
Kielmannsegg, Count von
Kilar, Wojciech
Kilenyi, Edward
Kirchner, Leon
Kirkpatrick, John
Kirstein, Lincoln
Kirtley, Karen
Klangfarbenmelodie (tone-color melody)
Klein, Gideon
Klemperer, Otto
Klenau, Paul von: Michael Kohlhaas
Klimt, Gustav
Kline, Franz
Knapp, Raymond
Knappertsbusch, Hans
Knipper, Lev
Knussen, Oliver: Horn Concerto
Kodály, Zoltán
Köhler, Joachim
Kokoschka, Oskar
Kolisch, Rudolf
Kolisch Quartet
Konstantinovskaya, Elena
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang Captain Blood Symphony in F-sharp Die tote Stadt
Korngold, Julius
Korot, Beryl
Koussevitzky, Serge
Kovnatskaya, Lyudmila
Kozintsev, Grigori
Kramers, John
Krása, Hans: Brundibár
Kraus, Karl
Krauss, Clemens
Kreisler, Fritz
Krenek, Ernst Charles V Jonny spielt auf
Kroll Opera
Kronberger, Maximilian
Kruger, Charles W.
Krupp, firm of
Kubizek, August
Kubrick, Stanley
Küchelbecker, Wilhelm
Kundera, Milan
Kunitz, Joshua
Kurosawa, Akira
Kurtág, György: Stele
Kürten, Peter
La Barbara, Joan
Lachenmann, Helmut The Little Match Girl,
Lachmann, Hedwig
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Shostakovich)
Lagarde, Paul de
La Grange, Henry-Louis de
La Guardia, Fiorello
Lambert, Constant
Landauer, Gustav
Lang, David
Lang, Fritz
Langston, John Mercer
La Scala, Milan
Laughton, Charles
Laura (Preminger)
Lauze, François de: Apologie de la danse
League of Composers
Lebedinsky, Lev
Le Corbusier, Charles
Lee, Gypsy Rose
Leeuw, Reinbert de
Léger, Fernand
Lehár, Franz The Merry Widow
Lehmann, Lotte
Leibowitz, René
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Lenau, Nikolaus
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Leningrad Conservatory, see St. Petersburg Conservatory
Leningrad Philharmonic
Leningrad Radio Orchestra
Leningrad Symphony (No. 7) (Shostakovich)
Lennon, John
Lenya, Lotte
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero: Pagliacci
Lerdahl, Fred
Lesh, Phil
Leskov, Nikolai
Leverkühn, Adrian (char.)
Lewis, David Levering
Lewis, John
LeWitt, Sol
Lezhnev, Abram
Library of Congress
Libre Parole, La
Lichtenstein, Roy
Liebknecht, Karl
Liebstöckl, Hans
Life Ligeti, György, Apparitions, Atmosphères Aventures, background of, The, Future of Music, Horn Trio, Lontano, Lux aeterna, Musica ricercata, Poème Symphonique for 100 Metronomes, Requiem, Three, Pieces for Two Pianos, Violin Concerto,
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lindberg, Magnus: Kraft
Lindbergh, Charles
Linyova, Yevgeniya
List, Kurt
Liszt, Franz, atonality and, Bagatelle sans tonalité, twelve-note theme in Faust Symphony
Locke, Alain
Lomax, Alan
Lomax, John
“long-tone” works
Lönnrot, Elias
Loos, Adolf
Lopes, Paul
Lorentz, Pare
Loring, Eugene
Loriod, Yvonne
Lorre, Peter
Los Angeles, European exiles in
Los Angeles City College
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Times
Losey, Joseph
Lourié, Arthur
Loussier, Jacques
Lowry, Vance
Lubitsch, Ernst
Luce, Henry
Lucier, Alvin, I am sitting in a room Music for Solo Performer
Ludwig II, King of Bavaria
Luening, Otto
Lukács, Georg
Lulu, (Berg)
Lunacharsky, Anatol
Lutosławski, Witold: Cello Concerto, Paroles tissées, Second Symphony, Third, Symphony, Three Poems of Henri Michaux, Venetian Games
Lynch, David
M (Lang)
Ma, Yo-Yo
Macdonald, Dwight
MacDowell, Edward
Mackay, John Henry
MacLise, Angus
Mac Low, Jackson
Maconie, Robin
Maeterlinck, Maurice, Pelléas et Mélisande,
Magnard, Albéric
Magnificent Ambersons, The, (Welles)
Mahler, Alma, in California, and Salome
Mahler, Anna
Mahler, Gustav, in America, background of, Bernstein on, Britten influenced by, as conductor, death of, desire for recognition, Hitler’s apparent admiration for, Kindertotenlieder, meeting with, Sibelius, positive response to music of, on Salome, Schoenberg and, Shostakovich influenced by, Strauss and, Symphony No. 1, Symphony, No. 2, Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 4, Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 6, Symphony No. 8, Symphony, No. 9, Symphony No. 10
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Mandelstam, Nadezhda
Mandelstam, Osip
Manhattan Opera House
Mann, Golo
Mann, Klaus
Mann, Thomas, “At the Prophet’s,”, Death in Venice, Doctor Faustus “Gladius Dei,”, The Magic Mountain, Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, “Tonio Kröger,”
Manson, Charles
Mao Zedong
Mariinsky Theatre
Maritain, Jacques
Martin, Frank
Maria-Triptychon
Martino, Donald
Martinu
°, Bohuslav
Marx, Harpo
Mascagni, Pietro: Cavalleria rusticana
Matisse, Henri, Blue Nude
Maupassant, Guy de
Maxfield, Richard, Amazing Grace
Mayakovsky, Vladimir
The Bedbug
Mayer, Louis B.
Mayer, William
McBride, Robert: Strawberry Jam Overture
McCarthy, Joseph R.
McCartney, Paul
McClure, Robert
McCullers, Carson
McKinzie, Richard
McLean, Evalyn Walsh
McPhee, Colin
Meck, Nadezhda von
Melchior, Lauritz
Mellers, Wilfrid
Melville, Herman: Billy Budd, Moby-Dick
Melvin, Sheila
Mendelson, Mira
Mendelssohn, Felix, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mengele, Josef, Menotti, Gian Carlo, Menuhin, Yehudi, Merman, Ethel, Messiaen, Olivier, Apparition of the Eternal Church, L’Ascension, birdsong used by, and Boulez, Catalogue d’oiseaux Chronochromie, Cinq rechants, Colors of the Celestial City, Diptyque, Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, Exotic, Birds, Fêtes des belles eaux, Four, Rhythm Études, From the Canyons to the, Stars…, Harawi, Livre d’orgue, Mode de valeurs et d’intensités, (Scale of Durations and Dynamics), as prisoner of war, Quartet for the End of Time, Réveil des oiseaux( Awakening of the Birds), Saint Francis of Assisi, Seven Haikus, Technique of My Musical Language, Three Small Liturgies of the Divine Presence, The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Turangalîla Symphony Twenty Aspects of the Infant Jesus, Visions of the Amen
Metropolitan Opera
Meyer-Eppler, Werner
Meyerhold, Vsevolod
Meyerovich, Mikhail
Miaskovsky, Nikolai
Michaux, Henri
micropolyphony
Mikhoels, Solomon
Mikoyan, Anastas
Milestone, Lewis
Miley, Bubber
Milhaud, Darius, Le Boeuf sur le toit, The Creation of the World, jazz influence on, Man and His Desire, My Happy Life (memoir), Saudades do Brasil, Le Train bleu
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Glenn
Mills, Florence
Mingus, Charles, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
minimalism, and bebop, New York, rock music, West Coast
Mitchell, Donald
Mitchell, Louis
Modern Music
modes of limited transpositions
Molotov, Vyacheslav
Monet, Claude
Monk, Meredith
Monk, Thelonious
Monod, David
Montefiore, Simon Sebag
Monteux, Pierre
Monteverdi, Claudio
Moog synthesizer
Moor, Paul
Moore, Thurston
Morgan, J. P.
Morris, Harry
Morrison, Bill
Morrison, Sterling
Morros, Boris
Morton, Jelly Roll
Moscow Art Theatre
Moscow Conservatory
Moscow Jewish Theatre
Moseley, Carlos
Moses und Aron (Schoenberg)
Mosolov, Alexander: The Iron Foundry
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mravinsky, Yevgeny
Muck, Karl
“Muddle Instead of Music” (Pravda)
Mühlfeld, Jeanne
Muhly, Nico
Mumford, Lewis
Mumma, Gordon
Muradeli, Vano: The Great Friendship
Murail, Tristan, Gondwana
Murray, Albert: Stomping the Blues
Musica Elettronica Viva
Musical America
Musica Viva concerts, Munich
Music for 18 Musicians (Reich)
“music for use” (Gebrauchsmusik)
Musikverein, Vienna
Musin, Ilya
musique concrète
Mussolini, Benito
Mussorgsky, Modest: Boris Godunov
Nabokov, Nicolas, as festival organizer, and Prokofiev, and Shostakovich,
Nachod, Pauline
Nagano, Kent
Nancarrow, Conlon, Study No. 33
National Conservatory, New York
National Endowment for the Arts
natural harmonic series
Nazism, and music in, Hitler’s Germany, Weimar Republic and
NBC
NBC Symphony
Negro Grand Opera Company
Negro Theatre Project
Nelson, Robert
neoclassicism
Neumann, Paula
New Babylon, (Kozintsev and Trauberg)
New Complexity
New Deal art projects
Newlin, Dika
Newman, Barnett
Newman, Richard
New Masses
New School for Social Research
Newsom, Joanna
New York City: Strauss, Puccini, and Mahler in, ultra-modernism of 1920s, downtown scene of 1950s and ’60s, minimalism in, contemporary scene,
New York City Ballet
New York City Opera
New Yorker
New York Herald
New York Herald Tribune
New York Philharmonic
New York Symphony
New York Times
New York World’s Fair (1939)
Niblock, Phill
Nice, David
Nico
Nielsen, Carl, Living Music
Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Case of Wagner, Thus Spake Zarathustra
Nijinska, Bronislava
Nijinsky, Vaslav
Nixon, Richard
Nixon in China
(Adams)
NKVD
Noailles, Charles and Marie-Laure de
Nono, Luigi
Il canto sospeso,
Nørgård, Per
Northwest German Radio
Nouvelle Revue Française
Novarro, Ramon
Novembergruppe
Nyman, Michael, A Zed & Two Noughts
Oberlin College
Obey, André
Ockeghem, Johannes
octatonic scale
Odets, Clifford
Offenbach, Jacques
Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS)
Of Mice and Men (Milestone)
Oh Dem Watermelons (Nelson)
Oja, Carol
Okeh Records
Olbrich, Joseph
Oliveros, Pauline
Olympia (Riefenstahl)
OMGUS, see Office of Military Government
ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor
ondes Martenot
Ono, Yoko
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Orff, Carl, Carmina burana, School Work
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Ornstein, Leo
overtone series, see natural harmonic series
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Owen, Wilfred
Pabst, G. W.
Page, Tim
Paik, Nam June
Paine, John Knowles
Panizza, Oskar
Panksepp, Jaak
Papandreou, George
Paraske, Larin
Paris, anti-Semitism in, avant-garde in, 1920s cultural life in,
Paris Conservatory
Paris Universal Exposition of 1889
Parker, Charlie, “Koko,” “Salt, Peanuts,”
Parker, Horatio, Parsifal (Wagner)
Pärt, Arvo, Cantus, Credo, For Alina, Tabula Rasa
Partch, Harry, Barstow, Genesis of a Music,
Partisan Review
Pasquier, Étienne
Pasternak, Boris
Pears, Peter
Péguy, Charles
Péladan, Joséphin
Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy)
Penderecki, Krzysztof, Dies Irae (Auschwitz Oratorio), St. Luke Passion, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Peress, Maurice
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
Peri, Jacopo: Dafne
Perle, George
Perle, Shirley (née Gabis)
Perring, John
Perse, Saint-John
Peter Grimes (Britten)
Petrassi, Goffredo
Pettis, Ashley
Peyser, Joan
Pfitzner, Hans, Krakau, Greeting, Palestrina
Philadelphia Orchestra
Phillips, Wendell
Piatigorsky, Gregor
Picabia, Francis
Picasso, Pablo
Piper, Myfanwy
Piston, Walter
Pittsburgh Symphony
Platen, August von
Plato
Plow That Broke the Plains, The (Lorentz)
Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Raven,”
Polignac, Princesse de
politics
Pollack, Howard
Pollock, Jackson
Pompidou, Georges
Pope, Alexander: Dunciad
Pople, Anthony
Popov, Gavriil, First Symphony
Popular Front
Porgy and Bess (Gershwin)
Porter, Cole
postminimalism
Potter, Keith
Poulenc, Francis, Les Biches, defends Stravinsky, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Gloria, Litanies to the Black, Virgin, Mass in G, Rapsodie nègre, Stabat Mater
Pound, Ezra
Pousseur, Henri: Votre Faust
Powell, Bud
Pran Nath, Pandit
Pravda, denounces Shostakovich
Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun” (Debussy),
Preminger, Otto
Presley, Elvis
Price, Florence
Price, Vincent
Princeton University
Pritchett, James
Prokofiev, Lina
Prokofiev, Oleg
Prokofiev, Sergei, Alexander Nevsky, background of, banned works of, Cantata for the Twentieth, Anniversary of October, as Christian Scientist, “Despair” for piano, The, Fiery Angel, funeral of, The Gambler, The Love of Three Oranges, Maddalena, as “official” Soviet composer, piano sonatas, Romeo and Juliet, Semyon Kotko, Seven, They Are Seven, Shostakovich and,, Sinfonietta, Songs of Our Days, The Step of Steel, Story of a Real, Man, Suggestion diabolique, Symphony No. 1, (Classical), Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 6, Symphony, No. 7, Violin Concerto No. 1, War and Peace, Zdravitsa (Toast to Stalin)
Proust, Marcel
Prussian Academy of Arts
Pryor, Arthur
Psycho (Hitchcock)
Public Enemy
Puccini, Giacomo, 1907 visit to, America, La Bohème, Girl of the Golden West, influence of Wagner on, Madama Butterfly, Manon, Lescaut, Tosca, Turandot
Pushkin, Alexander
Puttin’ on the Dog (Hanna and Barbera)
Quartet for the End of Time (Messiaen)
Queen: “We Will Rock You,”
Rachmaninov, Sergei, Isle of the Dead, Symphonic Dances
Radiguet, Raymond
Radiohead
ragtime
Raksin, David
Rameau, Jean-Philippe
Ranaldo, Lee
Rathaus, Karol
Rattenbury, Ken