Assignment 2.

Guillaume Pirard & Olga Volkova

______________________________________

ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH

These two interviws were found by The New School Library Search.

1. This interview with composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich describes her early exposure to music and
her experiences as a high school and university music student. Recounts some of Zwillich's
achievments as a composer. Offers her view that students' gender is of no importance and that
society owes a great debt to music teachers.

Delorenzo, Lisa C. "An interview with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich". Music Educators Journal, March
1992, Vol.78(7): 46-47. https://doi.org/10.2307/3398359

2. Ellen Zwilich was the first young woman to earn a doctorate in composition from the Julliard
School, and in 1983, she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. In this
interview, she discusses many topics, including her music and what she looks for in an
audience.

Grimes. Ev. "Conversations with American Composers: Ev Grimes Interviews Ellen Taaffe
Zwilich". Music Educators Journal, February 1986, Vol.72(6): 61-
65. https://doi.org/10.2307/3401281

FIREBIRD

As Stravinsky is a Russian composer, we decided to look for a dissertation on a web-site, which

is the most famous and tremendous Russian archive of doctoral dissertations: dissercat.com

1. The present study is devoted to the interpretation of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet scores of the
“Russian period”, which include The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), The Rite of Spring
(1913), and The Svadebka (1923), where vocal-verbal and dance-pantomime elements are
mixed.

Gryzunova, O. V. "Choreographic interpretations of Igor Stravinsky's ballets of the "Russian

period" (PhD diss., Vaganova Ballet Academy, St.-Petersburg,
2017), https://www.dissercat.com/content/khoreograficheskie-interpretatsii-baletov-igorya-
stravinskogo-russkogo-perioda/read
Only abstract is available.

2. The study explores the Stravinsky and Balanchine community in the context of the 20th
century ballet theater. Its material is the joint ballet of Balanchine and Stravinsky, the ballet of
Balanchine to the non-ballet music of Stravinsky, as well as the ballet made by them in
collaboration with other authors.
Naborschikova, S. V. "Balanchine and Stravinsky: to the problem of musical-choreographic
synthesis" (PhD diss., Moscow Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky,
2009), https://www.dissercat.com/content/balanchin-i-stravinskii-k-probleme-muzykalno-
khoreograficheskogo-sinteza/read
Only abstract is available.

3. The purpose of this dissertation is to expand the prevailing ideas about sphere of images in
works related to the early period of the composer's work, by identifying their synesthetic
specificity. The research material selected fantasy for the Fireworks orchestra, three Russian
ballets - The Firebird, Parsley, Sacred Spring and the Nightingale opera, as, in our opinion, the
most revealing works in the synesthetic aspect.

Mizyurkina, O. V. "Synaestheticity in the works of I. Stravinsky: an early period", (PhD diss.,

Novosibirsk Conservatory named after M. I. Glinka,
2018), https://www.dissercat.com/content/sinestetichnost-v-tvorchestve-i-stravinskogo-rannii-
period/read
Only abstract is available.

BRAHMS

The Manuscript was found on The Morgan Library web-site

Brahms, Johannes. “Sonatas, pianos (2), op. 34b, F minor”. Pierpont Morgan Library Dept. of
Music Manuscripts and Books. 21 Sep.
2019. http://www.themorgan.org/music/manuscript/114277.

IMANI

The reviews were found on web-site ProQuest.

1. Smith, Calvin. "Recording Reviews: "IMANI Winds"." The Horn Call - Journal of the
International Horn Society 37, no. 1 (10, 2006): 89-
90. https://login.libproxy.newschool.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-
com.libproxy.newschool.edu/docview/1232345?accountid=12261.
Full text is available, but only for The Mannes students

2. Hanudel, Patrick. "Collections - Terra Incognita." American Record Guide, 11, 2010,
266, https://login.libproxy.newschool.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-
com.libproxy.newschool.edu/docview/821005129?accountid=12261.
Full text is available, but only for The Mannes students

3. Hanudel, Patrick. "English Fantasy." American Record Guide, 07, 2013,

175, https://login.libproxy.newschool.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-
com.libproxy.newschool.edu/docview/1411040611?accountid=12261.
Full text is available, but only for The Mannes students