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Article: On the Music of Stefan Wolpe: Essays and Recollections.(Book review)
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On the Music of Stefan Wolpe: Essays and Recollections. Edited by Austin Clarkson. (Dimension & Diversity, no. 6.) Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2003. [xii, 371 p. ISBN 1-57647-063-0. $42.] Index, notes, illustrations, catalog, discography, compact disc.
In the last decade of his compositional career, Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972) favored two-movement forms for his music. The importance of these large-scale formal plans to the composer's conception is ably and bluntly demonstrated by the titles of many of these works: consider, for example, In Two Parts for Six Players and Piece in Two Parts for Violin Alone, both of which are featured on the compact disc included ...