New publications of interest.
Heidi Waleson, Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America (Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt)
Anthony Tommasini, The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide (Penguin)
Alan Walker, Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (FSG)
Paul Kildea, Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music (Norton)
Stéphane Mallarmé, The Book, trans. Sylvia Gorelick (Exact Change)
Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Les récits cachés de Richard Wagner: Art poétique, rêve et sexualité du "Vaisseau fantôme" à "Parsifal" (Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal)
E. Douglas Bomberger, Making Music American: 1917 and the Transformation of Culture (Oxford UP, December)
Sabine Feisst, ed., Schoenberg's Correspondence with American Composers (Oxford UP)
Dana Gooley, Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-century Music (Oxford UP)
Eugene J. Johnson, Inventing the Opera House: Theater Architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (Cambridge UP)
Robert Philip, The Classical Music Lover’s Companion to Orchestral Music (Yale UP)