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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972. First printing. Tan full cloth boards, black stamped cover and spine titles, fine. Pages fine. Dj moderate edge wear, rub, unclipped 5.95, protected in new, clear sleeve. Insightful appraisal of the 1960's, 70's instrumental scene - classical and pop. Music at the Crossroads displays the keenness of observation and trenchant wit of Chasins. But beneath the brilliance of the writing is a passionate awareness of the problems that confront the art of instrumental music, its practititioners, and its public. Chasins was an exceptional witness throughout the golden decades preceding the '60's. His observations concern the troubled tendencies in conflict and according to Chasin, the last phase of the musical revolution in the early sixties. He examines the emergence of the rock movement, the growing and progressive domain of the jazz in many pubs. The breakthrough of the artistic cold war when Van Cliburn gets the coveted first prize at the… Read More