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I Sang the Unsingable: My Life in TwentiethCentury Music,Used
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Memoir of Bethany Beardslee, the iconic American soprano known as the 'composer's singer.'American soprano Bethany Beardslee rose to prominence in the postwar years when the modernist sensibilities of European artists and thinkers were flooding American shores and challenging classical music audiences. With her light lyric voice, her musical intuition, and her fearless dedication to new music, Beardslee became the goto girl for twelvetone music in New York City. She was the first American singer to build a repertoire performing the music of Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Milton Babbitt, and Pierre Boulez, making a vibrant career singing difficult music.I Sang the Unsingable is the autobiography of the acclaimed twentiethcentury artsong soprano. In her memoir, Beardslee tells the story of how she made her way from inauspicious depressionera East Lansing to Carnegie Hall, and how her unique combination of musical gifts and training were alchemy for challengingmidcentury music. This is Beardslee's own perspective on a formidable catalog of premieres, a fortysixyear career, and a deep and lifelong dedication to performing the work of the composers of our time.Born in 1925 in Lansing, Michigan, Bethany Beardslee is an American soprano. She is noted for her collaborations with major twentiethcentury composers.Minna Zallman Proctor is a writer, critic, and translator. She is editorinchief of The Literary Review and the author of Do You Hear What I Hear? and Landslide: True Stories.Support for this publication was provided by the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music at theEastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.
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