Maestros and Their Music Maestros and Their Music

Maestros and Their Music

The Art and Alchemy of Conducting

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Publisher Description

An exuberant, uniquely accessible, beautifully illustrated look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conductor whose international career has spanned half a century.

John Mauceri brings a lifetime of experience to bear in an unprecedented, hugely informative, consistently entertaining exploration of his profession, rich with anecdotes from decades of working alongside the greatest names of the music world. With candor and humor, Mauceri makes clear that conducting is itself a composition: of legacy and tradition, techniques handed down from master to apprentice--and more than a trace of ineffable magic. He reveals how conductors approach a piece of music (a calculated combination of personal interpretation, imagination, and insight into the composer's intent); what it takes to communicate solely through gesture, with sometimes hundreds of performers at once; and the occasionally glamorous, often challenging life of the itinerant maestro. Mauceri, who worked closely with Leonard Bernstein for eighteen years, studied with Leopold Stokowski, and was on the faculty of Yale University for fifteen years, is the perfect guide to the allure and theater, passion and drudgery, rivalries and relationships of the conducting life.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2017
November 7
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
39.8
MB

Customer Reviews

ChgoLaw67 ,

Great memoir

A personal and accessible discussion of conducting.

Peter Mancini ,

Great

Thanks for the share wonderful book. I was able to grasp a lot of your wisdom and wisdom shared to you buy many of the greats. Sometimes we just perform music forgetting the little details thank you for the eye opener

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