Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian The Life and Work of an American Composer 1867-1944

"[Block] describes all of Beach's major works in some detail, taking advantage of the new technologies for reproducing musical type to offer us bountiful samples of the scores. She rightly declines to pronounce too definitively on the worth of any particular piece -- or of Amy Beach's work as a whole. If interest in Beach's music continues to grow as rapidly as it has in the last few years, there will be time and opportunity to assess it, and Block's study will be a valuable aid in making a sound assessment possible."Block, Adrienne Fried is the author of 'Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian The Life and Work of an American Composer 1867-1944' with ISBN 9780195137842 and ISBN 0195137841.