Traces the power shift from the apprentice/conservatory system of training composers to the university system, which took place in the United States from 1925-1

In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fe

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.