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" Letters I never mailed : "
by Alec Wilder.
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BL
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1039829
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b794199
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| Main Entry
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Wilder, Alec.
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| Title & Author
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Letters I never mailed : : clues to a life /\ by Alec Wilder.
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| Edition Statement
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Annotated ed. // introduction and supplementary material by David Demsey ; foreword by Marian McPartland ; photographs by Louis Ouzer.
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| Publication Statement
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Rochester, NY :: University of Rochester Press,, 2005.
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| Series Statement
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Eastman studies in music,; [v. 35]
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xiv, 313 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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1580462081
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: 9781580462082
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"Selected compositions by Alec Wilder": pages 290-296.
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Includes discography (pages 297-302) , bibliographical references (p. 303-305) , and indexes.
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"Alec Wilder is a rare example of a composer who established a reputation both as a prolific composer of concertos, sonatas, and operas, and as a popular songwriter (including the hit "I'll Be Around"). He was fearsomely articulate and had a wide and varied circle of friends ranging from Graham Greene to Frank Sinatra and Stan Getz. Letters I Never Mailed, hailed at its first publication (in 1975, by Little, Brown), tells the story of Wilder's musical and personal life through unsent "letters" addressed to various friends." "In it, he shares his insights - and sometimes salty opinions - on composing, musical life, and the tension between art and commercialism. This new, scholarly edition leaves Wilder's original text intact but decodes the mysteries of the original through an annotated index that identifies the letters' addressees, a biographical essay by David Demsey, and photographs by renowned photographer, and Wilder's lifelong friend, Louis Ouzer."--Jacket.
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Wilder, Alec.
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Wilder, Alec.
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Composers-- United States, Biography.
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Composers.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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780.92
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B
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ML410.W6975A3 2005
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Demsey, David.
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