![]() ![]() ![]() It examines how he has been appropriated in popular music, film and theater, in art, and in both TV and magazine commercials. I have often been asked, what does a piece of music mean? What is it about? I usually answer “to whom?” Beethoven in America explores the many ways that Beethoven’s music has been viewed, valued, interpreted and used in the United States for the past 200 years. He applied the “ Test” to his new book, Beethoven in America, and reported the following: His book, Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices, written with Denise Von Glahn, won the Irving Lowens Prize in 2007. Michael Broyles is Professor of Music at Florida State University and former Distinguished Professor of Music and Professor of American History at Pennsylvania State University. ![]()
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