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2 BOOKS by COMPOSER DANIEL GREGORY MASON - SIGNED & INSCRIBED Association Copies
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TWO BOOKS by COMPOSER DANIEL GREGORY MASON - SIGNED & INSCRIBED Association Copies.(1) TUNE IN AMERICA, by DANIEL GREGORY MASON. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1931. First Edition, so stated.
SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper by the AUTHOR to PIANIST HARRY KAUFMAN and his wife:
“Cordial regards to / Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kaufman / Daniel Gregory Mason / June, 1932.”
Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, 5.5” x 7.5”, 206 pages.
Condition: VERY GOOD book, the covers have some toning to the edges and spine, there is a newspaper review taped onto a blank prelim page that has offset and left pieces of tape to the page and the facing page, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a FAIR dustjacket that is heavily sunned at the spine and margins, has a couple closed tears across the spine, is chipped with tears at the spine ends and corners, and has spotting, but is still in one piece and doing its job.
(2) THE CHAMBER MUSIC OF BRAHMS, by DANIEL GREGORY MASON. Published by the Macmillan Company, New York, 1933. First Edition, with the date 1933 on the title page, the statement “Published May, 1933” on the copyright page, and with no indication of additional printings.
SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper by the AUTHOR to PIANIST HARRY KAUFMAN:
“Why you read this, remember / our playing the G major / Violin Quintet, at Westport, / September 7, 1933. / To Harry Kaufman / Daniel Gregory Mason.”
Hardcover Book, no dustjacket, 6.5” x 9.5”, 276 pages.
GOOD condition: The covers are worn through at the spine ends and corner tips, have spotting and rubbing at the margins, and lightly bumped corners; internally the pages are lightly toned, as normal, otherwise tight, bright clean and unmarked. A solid copy.
About DANIEL GREGORY MASON (from Wikipedia):
******Daniel Gregory Mason (Brookline, Massachusetts, November 20, 1873 – Greenwich, Connecticut, December 4, 1953) was an American composer and music critic.
Daniel Mason studied under John Knowles Paine at Harvard University from 1891 to 1895, continuing his studies with George Chadwick and Percy Goetschius. In 1894 he published his Opus 1, a set of keyboard waltzes. He became a lecturer at Columbia University in 1905, where he would remain until his retirement in 1942, successively being awarded the positions of assistant professor (1910), MacDowell professor (1929) and head of the music department (1929-1940).
After 1907, Mason began devoting significant time to composition, studying with Vincent D'Indy in Paris in 1913, garnering numerous honorary doctorates and winning prizes from the Society for the Publication of American Music and the Juilliard Foundation.
Mason's compositional idiom was thoroughly romantic. He deeply admired and respected the Austro-Germanic canon of the nineteenth century, especially Brahms; despite studying under D'Indy, he disliked impressionism and utterly disregarded the modernist musical movements of the 20th century. Mason sought to increase respect for American music, sometimes incorporating indigenous and popular motifs (such as popular songs or Negro spirituals) into his scores. He was a fastidious composer who repeatedly revised his scores (the manuscripts of which are now held at Columbia).******
About HARRY KAUFMAN (from the UCLA Library Special Collections and other Internet sites):
******UCLA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS - HARRY KAUFMAN PAPERS 1900-1961.
Harry Kaufman (born 1894 New York City - died 1961)was a PIANIST and MUSIC TEACHER at the CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC, Philadelphia. For 17 years he headed the Department of Accompanying. During this time his former piano teacher JOSEF HOFMANN was director of the Institute.
Harry Kaufman was also a very successful piano soloist, performing with orchestras in the U.S. and Europe. He accompanied such artists as Joseph Szigeti, Toscha Seidel, Nathan Milstein, George London, William Primrose, and many others. He usually traveled with his wife, LILIAN.
The Harry Kaufman collection consists of correspondence between HARRY KAUFMAN, his wife LILIAN KAUFMAN, and people in the worlds of classical music, literature, painting, and various other arts..
Correspondents include: Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Van Wyck Brooks, Dorothy Chandler, Pierre Fournier, George and Ira Gershwin, Josef Hofmann, Sol Hurok, Joseph Levine, STEPHEN LONGSTREET (my caps), Henry Miller, Eugene Ormandy, Jean Renoir, Arthur Rodzinski, Arthur Rubinstein, Elizabeth Schuman, Gertrude Stein, William Steinberg, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, Joseph Szigeti, Henri Temianka, Virgil Thomson, Lilly Toch, Louis Untermeyer, Alfred Wallenstein, Meredith Willson, Efrem Zimbalist, and others.
Most of the correspondence is addressed either to HARRY and LILIAN KAUFMAN or simply to LILIAN KAUFMAN. It appears that Lilian was the avid letter writer of the Kaufmans, and through her correspondence developed lasting friendships with many noted musicians and artists.
This collection belongs to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections.******