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Article: To Boulez and Beyond: Music in Europe since The Rite of Spring.(Review)
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To Boulez and Beyond: Music in Europe since The Rite of Spring. By Joan Peyser. New York: Billboard Books, 1999. [xvii, 382 p. ISBN 0-8230-7875-2. $24.95.]
In To Boulez and Beyond: Music in Europe since "The Rite of Spring, "Joan Peyser has combined two earlier books: The New Music: The Sense behind the Sound (New York: Delacorte Press, 1971) and Boulez: Composer, Conductor, Enigma (London: Cassell, 1977). The former "describes the lives and works of Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky and Edgard Varese" (New Music, vi); the latter extends the life-and-works approach to Pierre Boulez. Peyser adds a final chapter, bringing the Boulez story up to date, and an ...