Named after the Mt. Kisco home that Samuel Barber shared with fellow composer Gian Carlo Menotti - a popular gathering place for great composers and musicians of their time - Capricorn Conversations engages with composers who crossed paths with that time and place, and who continue to write and perform music in that "Post-Romantic" style.
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Named after the Mt. Kisco home that Samuel Barber shared with fellow composer Gian Carlo Menotti - a popular gathering place for great composers and musicians of their time - Capricorn Conversations engages with composers who crossed paths with that time and place, and who continue to write and perform music in that "Post-Romantic" style.
Howard Pollack is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Music at the University of Houston, where he has taught since 1987. He is the author of seven books, including biographies of Walter Piston, John Alden Carpenter, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Marc Blitzstein, and John Latouche. He has received two Deems Taylor Awards, the Irving Lowens Award, the Nicolas Slonimsky Award, and an ARSC Award for Excellence for his publications as well as two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities among other grants and fellowships. Pollack's articles and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and encyclopedias. He also has lectured at colleges and arts organizations in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, the Czech Republic, England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and across the United States, and has appeared in film documentaries and on such American radio shows as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, the Voice of America, and Fresh Air as well as on British, Australian, New Zealand, and German radio.
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Capricorn Conversations
Named after the Mt. Kisco home that Samuel Barber shared with fellow composer Gian Carlo Menotti - a popular gathering place for great composers and musicians of their time - Capricorn Conversations engages with composers who crossed paths with that time and place, and who continue to write and perform music in that "Post-Romantic" style.
