Morton Gould: American Salute
Peter W. Goodman
Foreword by Tim Page
Morton Gould (1913--1996) was a dominant force in American music throughout most of the 20th century. This phenomenally talented composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist worked in vaudeville and on radio, from Tin Pan Alley to Broadway, all the while churning out jingles, symphonies, and everything in between. His popularity, however, may have been the reason that he never received due recognition for his concert music.

Peter Goodman began working on this biography with Gould himself more than a year before his death and was allowed full access by the family to all of Gould's diaries and files.

1-57467-055-7, 394 pp, 20 b/w photos, 6 x 9", hardcover, © 2000

Price: $29.95 US

E-mail this page to a friend!

More ...
• larger image of cover
• Read an excerpt
• About the Author
• Author Interview
• Author Events

Review this book and share your comments with other customers!

What people are saying about this book...      Media Reviews (11)      Customer Reviews (0) Media Reviews "Goodman has written a book that reads like a novel; his journalistic style is tremendously helpful in bringing to life not only an important figure from the American musical past, but also an entire era." — www.newmusicbox.org "A welcome profile of American composer/conductor Gould . . . thoroughly researched . . . recommended for academic and public music collections to fill a gap in 20-th century American music scholarship." — Library Journal , September 1, 2000 "A human tale that's well told here, with the right balance between documentation and interpretation." — Peter Dickinson, Gramophone "Conductor and musician Morton Gould (who won the Pulitzer Prize for Stringmusic) selected journalist Peter W. Goodman to be his biographer a year before he died. In Morton Gould: American Salute, Goodman proves worthy of the task and fleshes out a fully realized portrait of Gould's life and work." — Publishers Weekly , September 11, 2000 "A thoroughly engrossing and honest book…. American Salute is a masterpiece! " — John Turner, Online Journal, Issue #10, "The biography is well written and edited. The twenty fine photographs help to give life to this greatly gifted composer." — Lou Camp, Penn Sounds 2001 "Working with full cooperation of the composer and his family, Goodman offers a sympathetic but unsparingly crystal line study of a bright light constantly flirting with darkness." — Noah Andre Trudeau, Symphony , July 2, 2001 "Goodman handles this life story skillfully." — Choice "Exceptional. " — Lex Ticonderoga, Today’s Books , January 30, 2001 "[A] thoughtful, comprehensive, vigorously well-written book. " — Kenneth LaFave, The Arizona Republic , December 17, 2000 "[Goodman] has done his research here, leaving few stones if any, unturned. He draws on an immense number of interveiws he conducted with over one hundred individuals, including Gould and his colleagues, friends, acquaintances both musical and non-musical, and family members . . . an honest biography of one of America's most important and influential figures in the world of twentieth century music." — G. Dale Vargason, ARSC Journal 2002