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Voices in the Wilderness

Six American Neo-Romantic Composers

Walter Simmons

Despite the Modernist search for new and innovative aesthetics and rejection of traditional tonality, several twentieth century composers have found their own voice while steadfastly relying on the aesthetics and techniques of Romanticism and 19th century composition principles. Musicological and reference texts have regarded these composers as isolated exceptions to modern thoughts of composition—exceptions of little importance, treated simplistically and superficially. Music critic and scholar Walter Simmons, however, believes these composers and their works should be taken seriously. They are worthy of more scholarly consideration, and deserve proper analysis, assessment, and discussion in their own regard. In Voices in the Wilderness, the first in a series of books celebrating the "Twentieth-Century Traditionalist," Simmons looks at six Neo-Romantic composers:

Ernest Bloch
Howard Hanson
Vittorio Giannini
Paul Creston
Samuel Barber
Nicolas Flagello

Through biographical overviews and a comprehensive assessment of musical works, Simmons provides readers with a clear understanding of the significance of the composers, their bodies of work, and their placement in musicological history. The chapters delve deeply and objectively into each composer's oeuvre, addressing their origins, stylistic traits and consistencies, phases of development, strengths and weaknesses, and affinities with other composers. The composers' most representative works are identified, and each chapter concludes with a discography of essential recordings.

Visit the author's website to read samples from the book and to listen to representative excerpts of each composer's work.
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Scarecrow Press
Pages: 432 • Trim: 7¼ x 8⅜
978-0-8108-5728-5 • Paperback • February 2006 • $67.00 • (£52.00)
978-1-4616-2119-5 • eBook • February 2006 • $63.50 • (£49.00)
Series: Modern Traditionalist Classical Music
Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Classical, Music / History & Criticism
Walter Simmons has received the National Educational Film Festival Award and the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for music criticism. He has contributed articles to The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, American National Biography, Fanfare, Music Journal, and Musical America.
Part 1 Acknowledgments
Part 2 1. Introduction
Chapter 3 The American Neo-Romantics
Chapter 4 Organization and Use of This Book
Chapter 5 Notes
Chapter 6 Selected Bibliography
Part 7 2. Ernest Bloch
Chapter 8 Biography
Chapter 9 Music
Chapter 10 Most Representative, Fully Realized Works
Chapter 11 Early Works: First European Period (1901-1906)
Chapter 12 Maturity: First European Period (1909-1916)
Chapter 13 Maturity: New York Period (1916-1919)
Chapter 14 Maturity: Cleveland Period (1920-1925)
Chapter 15 Maturity: San Francisco Period (1925-1929)
Chapter 16 Maturity: Second European Period (1930-1939)
Chapter 17 Later Maturity: Oregon Period (1939-1959)
Chapter 18 Conclusion
Chapter 19 Notes
Part 20 3. Howard Hanson
Chapter 21 Biography
Chapter 22 Music
Chapter 23 Most Representative, Fully Realized Works
Chapter 24 Early Period (until 1920)
Chapter 25 Early Maturity (1921-1946)
Chapter 26 Later Maturity (after 1947)
Chapter 27 Conclusion
Chapter 28 Notes
Chapter 29 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 30 Essential Discography
Part 31 4. Vittorio Giannini
Chapter 32 Biography
Chapter 33 Music
Chapter 34 Most Representative, Fully Realized Works
Chapter 35 First Phase (1920s through Early 1940s)
Chapter 36 Second Phase (Early 1940s through 1960s)
Chapter 37 Third Phase (1960-1966)
Chapter 38 Conclusion
Chapter 39 Notes
Chapter 40 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 41 Essential Discography
Part 42 5. Paul Creston
Chapter 43 Biography
Chapter 44 Music
Chapter 45 Stylistic Features
Chapter 46 Most Representative, Fully Realized Works
Chapter 47 Discussion of Works
Chapter 48 Conclusion
Chapter 49 Notes
Chapter 50 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 51 Essential Discography
Part 52 6. Samuel Barber
Chapter 53 Biography
Chapter 54 Music
Chapter 55 Most Representative, Fully Realized Works
Chapter 56 "Childhood": Early Period (until 1942)
Chapter 57 "Adolescence": Period of Exploration and Experimentation (1942 through 1952)
Chapter 58 "Adulthood": Music of Maturity (after 1952)
Chapter 59 Conclusion
Chapter 60 Notes
Chapter 61 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 62 Essential Discography
Part 63 7. Nicolas Flagello
Chapter 64 Biography
Chapter 65 Music
Chapter 66 Most Representative, Fully Realized Works
Chapter 67 Early Period (until 1958)
Chapter 68 Transitional Period (1958-1959)
Chapter 69 Mature Period (1959-1985)
Chapter 70 Conclusion
Chapter 71 Notes
Chapter 72 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 73 Essential Discography
Part 74 Index
Part 75 About the Author
Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers.
— Choice Reviews


Numerous quotations as well as notes and bibliography reflect the author's painstaking research. Of special interest to record collectors, there's a discography of essential recordings for each composer...a special pleasure of Voices in the Wilderness is the remarkable precision and clear-sightedness of Simmons's analyses of his six composers' strengths and weaknesses. In sum, this is a scrupulous, detailed, thoughtful, enlightening, and much-needed book on an important group of modern American composers who've been until now much too easily dismissed as reactionaries and throwbacks. We're fortunate that someone with a lifetime of devotion to their music has written it...
— American Record Guide


The book's virtues shine. Simmons writes clearly and even eloquently…providing both an introduction for the novice and a deeper instruction for someone already acquainted with the music.
— Steve Schwartz; Classical Net


I can only cheer as Simmons delivers knockout punches to the serialist academics who ruled the world and American music scenes in the 1960s and 1970s...the author delivers some brilliant flashes of insight...This alternate version of a period of history of American music could hardly be better represented than by Voices in the Wilderness.
— Fanfare Magazine


Simmons' book should be a set text for students of music history everywhere. The marginalisation of some musicians, the primacy of fashion and the brutal interface between economics and arts make for provocative reading . . . Slake your enthusiastic curiosity with this well informed and poised book but be prepared to discover new enthusiasms and the nagging grains of fresh curiosity . . . do not be surprised if you come away with questions seriously disturbing to the concert and recording status quo.
— Rob Barnett; MusicWeb International


As a work of music criticism, Voices is as close to a model of its kind as anything I have ever read....Simmons's introduction, in which he lays out the case for reconsidering these composers and the reasons for their neglect, is worth the price of the book by itself....I am in admiration of what he has achieved here. I am also immensely grateful for the in-depth treatment afforded to each of these six composers...The very hardest thing for a music critic to do is to put in words the 'meaning' of a piece of music. Simmons is particularly gifted in doing this, and it is what makes Voices so valuable.
— Robert Reilly, American Foreign Policy Council; Crisis


Numerous quotations as well as notes and bibliography reflect the author's painstaking research. Of special interest to record collectors, there's a discography of "essential" recordings for each composer...a special pleasure of Voices in the Wilderness is the remarkable precision and clear-sightedness of Simmons's analyses of his six composers' strengths and weaknesses.In sum, this is a scrupulous, detailed, thoughtful, enlightening, and much-needed book on an important group of modern American composers who've been until now much too easily dismissed as reactionaries and throwbacks. We're fortunate that someone with a lifetime of devotion to their music has written it.
— American Record Guide


A very thoroughly researched, well-organized, and well-written study…authoritative and, at the same time eminently readable for both the expert and the novice…That the work is a labor of love is evident at every turn, yet the obvious love of this music does not give rise to subjective bias. It is a scholarly, objective analysis of the material. Simmons demonstrates everywhere a deep and thorough knowledge of the works, their structure, and their thematic and melodic content.
— Classical Voice North Carolina


...useful and admirable for reasons other than its specific critical. To begin with, [Simmons'] introduction offers an impressively clear summary of the various ways in which the history of musical modernism is in need of correction and revision. His largely non-technical descriptions of the music discussed in Voices in the Wilderness are models of accessibility. Above all, he is a thoughtful, balanced critic whose respect for his subjects does not stop him from admitting their flaws; his analysis of Samuel Barber's musical style, for example, is exceptionally fair-minded and insightful.
— COMMENTARY


...Simmons does a thorough job in sampling the critical evaluations of his subjects during different eras...[he] is both vivid in his own descriptions of the music and level-headed in his judgments. He is unafraid of challenging opinions he deems ill-considered...or of pointing out when his pet composers are not at their best...The lasting value of this book, however, lays not in its individual profiles, but in the way Simmons threads them together.
— Michael Quinn; Teaching History: A Journal of Methods


Simmons examines the lives and music of Bloch, Barber, Howard Hanson, Paul Creston, Vittorio Giannini and Nicolas Flagello, a loyalty to tonality being the connecting factor. American musical history, Simmons argues, has tended to concentrate on composers who, in some way, rejected traditional harmonic language, and has marginalised those who stayed faithful to it.
— Piano Professional


This book is the first of a projected series of books by the distinguished writer on music, Walter Simmons. I've admired his writings for many years and had heard about this book from several friends who recommended it highly. I now see why....I for one am eager to read each of the five prospective books to follow this one....When this series is finished it will, on the evidence of this first volume, comprise one of the...most valuable overall studies of American classical music in print. Strongly recommended.
— Scott Morrison; Amazon.Com


In this persuasively argued and passionately committed book, musicologist Walter Simmons makes his discussion of six American composers the occasion for rebutting a full half-century of the musically correct denigration of a compositional style—or school or tradition—whose main purpose was and is direct emotional communication with the audience....Simmons has done an inestimably important service in making a cogent case for the Neo-Romantic Aesthetic. It is to be hoped that, through his book, the burgeoning case for his six exemplary composers will be sustained.
— Thomas F. Bertonneau, Visiting Professor at SUNY Oswego; The University Bookman


Musicologist and critic Simmons focuses on a group of composers born between 1880 and 1930 whose work is primarily concerned with evoking mood, depicting abstract or referential drama, and expressing personal and subjective emotion. He suggests that they may be the most conservative of the traditionalists, because they embraced many of the stylistic features of late-19th-century music. They are Ernest Bloch, Howard Hanson, Vittorio Giannini, Paul Creston, Samuel Barber, and Nicolas Flagello.
— Reference and Research Book News


As a historical source, it is of value...It is commendable...
— Music Reference Services Quarterly


This substantial book (432 pages) is a very handy reference tool at a number of levels for anyone interested in a rich seam running through American music in the 20th Century, a seam at one time very nearly entombed in concrete by the academic commissars of serialism. . . . All in all, however, this first installment of what will (I hope) become a multi volume survey of 20th-century American music is very warmly to be welcomed, and is strongly recommended as a vital handbook for anyone exploring or rediscovering this vast terrain.
— Tempo


The book makes fine reading for the amateur enthusiast...and also for the professional, who can gain insights and other bibliographical sources and analysis from the meticulously referenced writing. Also, as a guide to selecting music for concerts and recitals, Voices serves as a useful starting point. . . .Needless to say, it is highly recommended.
— San Diego Jewish Times


Walter Simmons has written a superb book about the core of American art music in the 20th century: the neo-romantics. . . .The musical heritage revealed in the book Voices in the Wilderness rivals the 20th-century mainstream of Europe and Russia. It’s refreshing to discover we have a culture beyond the throwaway, yet it’s sad so few know of it. Simmons’ book will make you seek and listen, and love what you hear.
— Sacramento News and Review


The lasting value of this book, however, lays not in its individual profiles, but in the way Simmons threads them together. Among these composers, Hanson was a firm champion of Bloch; Flagello was a student of Giannini; Barber was an influence on, well, everyone here. With so many people opting out of both the Modernist and populist currents of the time, we should finally acknowledge these figures as a fully separate and legitimate tradition of their own.
— Gramophone


Voices in the Wilderness

Six American Neo-Romantic Composers

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  • Despite the Modernist search for new and innovative aesthetics and rejection of traditional tonality, several twentieth century composers have found their own voice while steadfastly relying on the aesthetics and techniques of Romanticism and 19th century composition principles. Musicological and reference texts have regarded these composers as isolated exceptions to modern thoughts of composition—exceptions of little importance, treated simplistically and superficially. Music critic and scholar Walter Simmons, however, believes these composers and their works should be taken seriously. They are worthy of more scholarly consideration, and deserve proper analysis, assessment, and discussion in their own regard. In Voices in the Wilderness, the first in a series of books celebrating the "Twentieth-Century Traditionalist," Simmons looks at six Neo-Romantic composers:

    Ernest Bloch
    Howard Hanson
    Vittorio Giannini
    Paul Creston
    Samuel Barber
    Nicolas Flagello

    Through biographical overviews and a comprehensive assessment of musical works, Simmons provides readers with a clear understanding of the significance of the composers, their bodies of work, and their placement in musicological history. The chapters delve deeply and objectively into each composer's oeuvre, addressing their origins, stylistic traits and consistencies, phases of development, strengths and weaknesses, and affinities with other composers. The composers' most representative works are identified, and each chapter concludes with a discography of essential recordings.

    Visit the author's website to read samples from the book and to listen to representative excerpts of each composer's work.
Details
Details
  • Scarecrow Press
    Pages: 432 • Trim: 7¼ x 8⅜
    978-0-8108-5728-5 • Paperback • February 2006 • $67.00 • (£52.00)
    978-1-4616-2119-5 • eBook • February 2006 • $63.50 • (£49.00)
    Series: Modern Traditionalist Classical Music
    Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Classical, Music / History & Criticism
Author
Author
  • Walter Simmons has received the National Educational Film Festival Award and the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for music criticism. He has contributed articles to The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, American National Biography, Fanfare, Music Journal, and Musical America.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Part 1 Acknowledgments
    Part 2 1. Introduction
    Chapter 3 The American Neo-Romantics
    Chapter 4 Organization and Use of This Book
    Chapter 5 Notes
    Chapter 6 Selected Bibliography
    Part 7 2. Ernest Bloch
    Chapter 8 Biography
    Chapter 9 Music
    Chapter 10 Most Representative, Fully Realized Works
    Chapter 11 Early Works: First European Period (1901-1906)
    Chapter 12 Maturity: First European Period (1909-1916)
    Chapter 13 Maturity: New York Period (1916-1919)
    Chapter 14 Maturity: Cleveland Period (1920-1925)
    Chapter 15 Maturity: San Francisco Period (1925-1929)
    Chapter 16 Maturity: Second European Period (1930-1939)
    Chapter 17 Later Maturity: Oregon Period (1939-1959)
    Chapter 18 Conclusion
    Chapter 19 Notes
    Part 20 3. Howard Hanson
    Chapter 21 Biography
    Chapter 22 Music
    Chapter 23 Most Representative, Fully Realized Works
    Chapter 24 Early Period (until 1920)
    Chapter 25 Early Maturity (1921-1946)
    Chapter 26 Later Maturity (after 1947)
    Chapter 27 Conclusion
    Chapter 28 Notes
    Chapter 29 Selected Bibliography
    Chapter 30 Essential Discography
    Part 31 4. Vittorio Giannini
    Chapter 32 Biography
    Chapter 33 Music
    Chapter 34 Most Representative, Fully Realized Works
    Chapter 35 First Phase (1920s through Early 1940s)
    Chapter 36 Second Phase (Early 1940s through 1960s)
    Chapter 37 Third Phase (1960-1966)
    Chapter 38 Conclusion
    Chapter 39 Notes
    Chapter 40 Selected Bibliography
    Chapter 41 Essential Discography
    Part 42 5. Paul Creston
    Chapter 43 Biography
    Chapter 44 Music
    Chapter 45 Stylistic Features
    Chapter 46 Most Representative, Fully Realized Works
    Chapter 47 Discussion of Works
    Chapter 48 Conclusion
    Chapter 49 Notes
    Chapter 50 Selected Bibliography
    Chapter 51 Essential Discography
    Part 52 6. Samuel Barber
    Chapter 53 Biography
    Chapter 54 Music
    Chapter 55 Most Representative, Fully Realized Works
    Chapter 56 "Childhood": Early Period (until 1942)
    Chapter 57 "Adolescence": Period of Exploration and Experimentation (1942 through 1952)
    Chapter 58 "Adulthood": Music of Maturity (after 1952)
    Chapter 59 Conclusion
    Chapter 60 Notes
    Chapter 61 Selected Bibliography
    Chapter 62 Essential Discography
    Part 63 7. Nicolas Flagello
    Chapter 64 Biography
    Chapter 65 Music
    Chapter 66 Most Representative, Fully Realized Works
    Chapter 67 Early Period (until 1958)
    Chapter 68 Transitional Period (1958-1959)
    Chapter 69 Mature Period (1959-1985)
    Chapter 70 Conclusion
    Chapter 71 Notes
    Chapter 72 Selected Bibliography
    Chapter 73 Essential Discography
    Part 74 Index
    Part 75 About the Author
Reviews
Reviews
  • Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers.
    — Choice Reviews


    Numerous quotations as well as notes and bibliography reflect the author's painstaking research. Of special interest to record collectors, there's a discography of essential recordings for each composer...a special pleasure of Voices in the Wilderness is the remarkable precision and clear-sightedness of Simmons's analyses of his six composers' strengths and weaknesses. In sum, this is a scrupulous, detailed, thoughtful, enlightening, and much-needed book on an important group of modern American composers who've been until now much too easily dismissed as reactionaries and throwbacks. We're fortunate that someone with a lifetime of devotion to their music has written it...
    — American Record Guide


    The book's virtues shine. Simmons writes clearly and even eloquently…providing both an introduction for the novice and a deeper instruction for someone already acquainted with the music.
    — Steve Schwartz; Classical Net


    I can only cheer as Simmons delivers knockout punches to the serialist academics who ruled the world and American music scenes in the 1960s and 1970s...the author delivers some brilliant flashes of insight...This alternate version of a period of history of American music could hardly be better represented than by Voices in the Wilderness.
    — Fanfare Magazine


    Simmons' book should be a set text for students of music history everywhere. The marginalisation of some musicians, the primacy of fashion and the brutal interface between economics and arts make for provocative reading . . . Slake your enthusiastic curiosity with this well informed and poised book but be prepared to discover new enthusiasms and the nagging grains of fresh curiosity . . . do not be surprised if you come away with questions seriously disturbing to the concert and recording status quo.
    — Rob Barnett; MusicWeb International


    As a work of music criticism, Voices is as close to a model of its kind as anything I have ever read....Simmons's introduction, in which he lays out the case for reconsidering these composers and the reasons for their neglect, is worth the price of the book by itself....I am in admiration of what he has achieved here. I am also immensely grateful for the in-depth treatment afforded to each of these six composers...The very hardest thing for a music critic to do is to put in words the 'meaning' of a piece of music. Simmons is particularly gifted in doing this, and it is what makes Voices so valuable.
    — Robert Reilly, American Foreign Policy Council; Crisis


    Numerous quotations as well as notes and bibliography reflect the author's painstaking research. Of special interest to record collectors, there's a discography of "essential" recordings for each composer...a special pleasure of Voices in the Wilderness is the remarkable precision and clear-sightedness of Simmons's analyses of his six composers' strengths and weaknesses.In sum, this is a scrupulous, detailed, thoughtful, enlightening, and much-needed book on an important group of modern American composers who've been until now much too easily dismissed as reactionaries and throwbacks. We're fortunate that someone with a lifetime of devotion to their music has written it.
    — American Record Guide


    A very thoroughly researched, well-organized, and well-written study…authoritative and, at the same time eminently readable for both the expert and the novice…That the work is a labor of love is evident at every turn, yet the obvious love of this music does not give rise to subjective bias. It is a scholarly, objective analysis of the material. Simmons demonstrates everywhere a deep and thorough knowledge of the works, their structure, and their thematic and melodic content.
    — Classical Voice North Carolina


    ...useful and admirable for reasons other than its specific critical. To begin with, [Simmons'] introduction offers an impressively clear summary of the various ways in which the history of musical modernism is in need of correction and revision. His largely non-technical descriptions of the music discussed in Voices in the Wilderness are models of accessibility. Above all, he is a thoughtful, balanced critic whose respect for his subjects does not stop him from admitting their flaws; his analysis of Samuel Barber's musical style, for example, is exceptionally fair-minded and insightful.
    — COMMENTARY


    ...Simmons does a thorough job in sampling the critical evaluations of his subjects during different eras...[he] is both vivid in his own descriptions of the music and level-headed in his judgments. He is unafraid of challenging opinions he deems ill-considered...or of pointing out when his pet composers are not at their best...The lasting value of this book, however, lays not in its individual profiles, but in the way Simmons threads them together.
    — Michael Quinn; Teaching History: A Journal of Methods


    Simmons examines the lives and music of Bloch, Barber, Howard Hanson, Paul Creston, Vittorio Giannini and Nicolas Flagello, a loyalty to tonality being the connecting factor. American musical history, Simmons argues, has tended to concentrate on composers who, in some way, rejected traditional harmonic language, and has marginalised those who stayed faithful to it.
    — Piano Professional


    This book is the first of a projected series of books by the distinguished writer on music, Walter Simmons. I've admired his writings for many years and had heard about this book from several friends who recommended it highly. I now see why....I for one am eager to read each of the five prospective books to follow this one....When this series is finished it will, on the evidence of this first volume, comprise one of the...most valuable overall studies of American classical music in print. Strongly recommended.
    — Scott Morrison; Amazon.Com


    In this persuasively argued and passionately committed book, musicologist Walter Simmons makes his discussion of six American composers the occasion for rebutting a full half-century of the musically correct denigration of a compositional style—or school or tradition—whose main purpose was and is direct emotional communication with the audience....Simmons has done an inestimably important service in making a cogent case for the Neo-Romantic Aesthetic. It is to be hoped that, through his book, the burgeoning case for his six exemplary composers will be sustained.
    — Thomas F. Bertonneau, Visiting Professor at SUNY Oswego; The University Bookman


    Musicologist and critic Simmons focuses on a group of composers born between 1880 and 1930 whose work is primarily concerned with evoking mood, depicting abstract or referential drama, and expressing personal and subjective emotion. He suggests that they may be the most conservative of the traditionalists, because they embraced many of the stylistic features of late-19th-century music. They are Ernest Bloch, Howard Hanson, Vittorio Giannini, Paul Creston, Samuel Barber, and Nicolas Flagello.
    — Reference and Research Book News


    As a historical source, it is of value...It is commendable...
    — Music Reference Services Quarterly


    This substantial book (432 pages) is a very handy reference tool at a number of levels for anyone interested in a rich seam running through American music in the 20th Century, a seam at one time very nearly entombed in concrete by the academic commissars of serialism. . . . All in all, however, this first installment of what will (I hope) become a multi volume survey of 20th-century American music is very warmly to be welcomed, and is strongly recommended as a vital handbook for anyone exploring or rediscovering this vast terrain.
    — Tempo


    The book makes fine reading for the amateur enthusiast...and also for the professional, who can gain insights and other bibliographical sources and analysis from the meticulously referenced writing. Also, as a guide to selecting music for concerts and recitals, Voices serves as a useful starting point. . . .Needless to say, it is highly recommended.
    — San Diego Jewish Times


    Walter Simmons has written a superb book about the core of American art music in the 20th century: the neo-romantics. . . .The musical heritage revealed in the book Voices in the Wilderness rivals the 20th-century mainstream of Europe and Russia. It’s refreshing to discover we have a culture beyond the throwaway, yet it’s sad so few know of it. Simmons’ book will make you seek and listen, and love what you hear.
    — Sacramento News and Review


    The lasting value of this book, however, lays not in its individual profiles, but in the way Simmons threads them together. Among these composers, Hanson was a firm champion of Bloch; Flagello was a student of Giannini; Barber was an influence on, well, everyone here. With so many people opting out of both the Modernist and populist currents of the time, we should finally acknowledge these figures as a fully separate and legitimate tradition of their own.
    — Gramophone


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