Background
Joan Peyser was born on June 12, 1930 in Manhattan, New York, United States. Before she was ten, her father changed her surname and her brother's (but not his own) to Gilbert, to shield them from anti-Semitism.
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
From 1947 to 1949 Joan Peyser attended Smith College.
Barnard College, New York City, New York, United States
In 1951Joan Peyser received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College.
Columbia University, New York City, New York, United States
In 1956 Joan Peyser obtained a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University.
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The symphonic orchestra is intriguingly considered in essays by 23 leading music authors and thinkers. Topics include historical beginnings, the role of the conductor, the orchestral audience, the nature of the repertoire, and how recordings have affected the modern orchestra.
https://www.amazon.com/Orchestra-Collection-Essays-Origins-Transformations/dp/0823083853/?tag=2022091-20
1986
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This is a startlingly fresh account of the life of one of the greatest 20th-century Americans, composer and songwriter George Gershwin. Joan Peyser examines Gershwin's character, his complex relationship with brother and collaborator Ira, and his several romantic affairs.
https://www.amazon.com/Memory-All-That-George-Gershwin-ebook/dp/B002F9MZE8/?tag=2022091-20
1993
Joan Peyser was born on June 12, 1930 in Manhattan, New York, United States. Before she was ten, her father changed her surname and her brother's (but not his own) to Gilbert, to shield them from anti-Semitism.
Joan Peyser studied at the High School of Music and Art (later merged with the High School of Performing Arts to form Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & the Arts). After graduating from high school, she attended Smith College from 1947 to 1949. In 1951 she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College. In 1956 Peyser obtained a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University.
Joan Peyser began writing about music in the 1950s, and submitted articles about music to Opera News and other publications while still a student. Her breakthrough was a 1966 article for the Columbia University Forum about the way the composer Marc Blitzstein's politics, personal life and musical ideas were intertwined. Impressed with her analysis, the Delacorte Press offered her a contract to write "The New Music: The Sense Behind the Sound," published in 1970. "Boulez: Composer, Conductor, Enigma" followed in 1976.
In 1999 she combined "The New Music" and "Boulez" and republished them as a single volume, "To Boulez and Beyond: Music in Europe Since "The Rite of Spring". Peyser was the editor of The Musical Quarterly from 1977 to 1984, and of "The Orchestra: Origins and Transformations" (1986), a compilation of essays. She was a regular contributor to The New York Times, Commentary, Vogue, and Opera News.
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1993(The symphonic orchestra is intriguingly considered in ess...)
1986In 1949 Joan Gilbert married Herbert S. Peyser, a medical student who became a psychiatrist. Though their marriage ended in divorce in the early 1970s. They had three children: Monica Parks, Tony Peyser and Kami Seligman. Since 1990, he partner was Frank Driggs, the jazz historian.