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The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries.

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The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries. Edited by Halina Goldberg. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. [xii, 368 p. ISBN 0-253-34319-4. $59.95.] Music examples, indexes, notes.

The Age of Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries, edited by Halina Goldberg, includes essays originally presented at a symposium bearing a similar title held at Indiana University, Bloomington in 1999 to commemorate the sesquicentennial of Frederic Chopin's death. The publication is not a conference proceedings--that is, it does not represent the sum of papers delivered at the symposium. Nor is it a volume of "selected essays" that might most strongly articulate the underlying premise of the original event. Rather, it is, as Goldberg defines in the preface, a "collection" and, as such, it approximates the symposium's design: it is headed by an introduction and divided into four parts ("Memories, Images, and Dreams," "Analytical Perspectives," "Gender, Genre and Genius." and "Chopin Appropriated"), three of which borrow their headings from session titles. In all, the volume includes a brief introduction and thirteen essays; the majority of these contributions appear in print for the first time.

In the introduction, "Chopin Then and Now: A Fantasy," historian Daniel Stone gets things off to a troubling start...

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