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Story-like chapters profile six twentieth-century ?reactive? composers; not the most famous pillars of the period but lesser-known, perhaps more approachable, characters whose stories span that 1900?2000 period from decadent fin-de-si?cle Vienna (Alban Berg, Alexander Zemlinsky) to war-torn Paris (Olivier Messiaen, Arthur Honegger) to the Cold War tensions of East vs. West (Toru Takemitsu) and late-century Communism (Arvo Part). Their stories were all very different crises, and they produced very different kinds of music; each very ?telling? of their composer?s life and times. Crisis Music presents each brief biography almost like a detective story looking for motives, then spotlights one particular piece of music from each composer that emerged directly out of hard times?maybe a political crisis at the time of composition (Hitler marching into Paris or later Communist crack-downs); or some personal angst such as illness or scandal?and how that music contains and expresses crisis. In .

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