Lawrence Gilman

Lawrence Gilman
Lawrence Gilman (1878–1939) was an American author, music critic, and program annotator. He was known for his insightful writings on music and composers, contributing to publications like the "New York Herald Tribune". Gilman authored several books, including "Phases of Modern Music" and "Stories of Symphonic Music," which explored musical interpretation and its impact on listeners. Additionally, he worked as a program annotator for the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra, helping audiences appreciate classical music more deeply.

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I With the production at Paris in the spring of 1902 of Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, based on the play of Maeterlinck, the history of music turned a new and surprising page. "It is necessary," declared an acute French critic, M. Jean Marnold, writing shortly after the event, "to go back perhaps to Tristan to find in the opera house an event so important in certain respects... more...

CHAPTER I RECORDS AND EVENTS Edward MacDowell, the first Celtic voice that has spoken commandingly out of musical art, achieved that priority through natural if not inevitable processes. Both his grandfather and grandmother on his father's side were born in Ireland, of Irish-Scotch parents. To his paternal great-grandfather, Alexander MacDowell, the composer traced the Scottish element in his... more...