Author: Frances Anne WisterPublisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Twenty-five Years of the Philadelphia Orchestra
Author: Frances Anne WisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Twenty-five Years of the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1900-1925
Author: Frances Anne WisterRiccardo Muti
Author: Judith Karp KurnickPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812214451
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Riccardo Muti's tenure with the Philadelphia Orchestra constituted a virtuoso partnership acclaimed around the world. This book documents and highlights the achievements of the maestro's career.
Philadelphia Orchestra --1905-1906
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Philadelphia Orchestra --1905-1906
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
The Musical Leader
Author: Fifty Years of Highlights with the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1900-1950
Author: Philadelphia Orchestra AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conductors (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Mystery of Leopold Stokowski
Author: William Ander SmithPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838633625
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Although supporters and critics of conductor Leopold Stokowski have disagreed over his contribution to symphonic music, a consensus developed that he was a man of paradox and mystery, an extrovert showman reclusively shy about who he was and what he was trying to do in music. This volume attempts to solve the mysteries. Includes an annotated discography.
American Studies
Author: Jack SalzmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521266871
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
A major three-volume bibliography, including an additional supplement, of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1900 and 1988.
Marcel Tabuteau
Author: Laila StorchPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253032687
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Laila Storch is a world-renowned oboist in her own right, but her book honors Marcel Tabuteau, one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century music. Tabuteau studied the oboe from an early age at the Paris Conservatoire and was brought to the United States in 1905, by Walter Damrosch, to play with the New York Symphony Orchestra. Although this posed a problem for the national musicians' union, he was ultimately allowed to stay, and the rest, as they say, is history. Eventually moving to Philadelphia, Tabuteau played in the Philadelphia Orchestra and taught at the Curtis Institute of Music, ultimately revamping the oboe world with his performance, pedagogical, and reed-making techniques. In 1941, Storch auditioned for Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute, but was rejected because of her gender. After much persistence and several cross-country bus trips, she was eventually accepted and began a life of study with Tabuteau. Blending archival research with personal anecdotes, and including access to rare recordings of Tabuteau and Waldemar Wolsing, Storch tells a remarkable story in an engaging style.
Behind the Baton
Author: Gerard SchwarzPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1574674943
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
(Amadeus). To speak of Gerard Schwarz musician, conductor, festival organizer, gig hopper, educator, television personality, patron and proselytizer of the arts is to tell an exemplary American story. You could convey it exclusively in cliches, from his industrious emigre parents to his precocious childhood, from his ardor and diligence as a prodigy trumpeter to his meteoric rise as a conductor, from his unforeseen cross-country migration to the gradual construction of a world-class orchestra in a city formerly regarded as a cultural backwater, from the halls of New York City's High School of Performing Arts to the digital instructor's chair of the All-Star Orchestra's Khan Academy course series. You could simply recite the numbers: over 300 new works premiered, over 350 recordings in his discography, 14 GRAMMY nominations, 4 Emmy awards, six ASCAP Awards, and hundreds of other honors and laurels. You could dazzle and festoon and bewitch with talk of truth and beauty and the pursuit of ever-higher forms of artistic expression. Or you could tell it Jerry's way. Behind the Baton is a quintessentially Schwarzian memoir: intrepid, forthright, risible, subtly self-assured, and entirely unpretentious. It offers an intimate inside look at a man whose immense talent is rivaled only by his humility and work ethic a man who, for nearly fifty years, has strived to leave every orchestra and musician he touched better than when he found them. Whether you're a classical music aficionado, an orchestra initiate just cutting your teeth, or an everyday reader interested in the remarkable story behind an extraordinary man, Behind the Baton belongs on your nightstand.