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Scores to Settle: Stories of the Struggle to Create Great Music

Autor Norman Gilliland
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2009
Scores to Settle brings classical music to life through stories about the struggle to create and perform it. Following Grace Notes for a Year, Norman Gilliland’s popular earlier book of musical anecdotes, Scores to Settle brings together 366 brief true stories ranging from the inspirational to the burlesque, all of them illuminating the musical experience for composers, musicians, and listeners.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780971509337
ISBN-10: 0971509336
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: NEMO Productions
Colecția NEMO Productions

Recenzii

"I really enjoyed reading this book.  There are many wonderful anecdotes that give great insight into these composers and many of the events that shaped their lives and compositions.  I highly recommend this book and wish its readers many enjoyable hours."—Edo de Waart

"Gilliland has done it again: This second installment of his wondrous compilation of anecdotes, both hilarious and richly informative, from the annals of music history. Musicians of all stripes–composers, conductors, divas, and divos, violinists, pianists, and bass trombonists–parade through the 366-pages (one for each day of the year, plus Leap Day) of this hefty tome. Some are so outrageously comical that you’ll be ricocheting with laughter for days to come; others are so fascinatingly strange that you’ll think the author made it all up. Hooray for humor and wit in music!”—Gunther Schuller

Notă biografică

Norman Gilliland has hosted classical music radio broadcasts since 1977. He is the creator of the radio feature Grace Notes, which airs daily on many public radio stations nationwide. He is the author of a historical novel, Sand Mansions, and lives in Middleton, Wisconsin.

Extras

“The inattention of the Fritz Scheel players to Sousa’s conducting stirred up such rancor between the two groups of musicians that the Americans threatened fisticuffs if the slight continued. After polite applause greeted the Scheel orchestra’s performance of Mignon, Sousa’s band played an impeccable William Tell, and, during a thunderous ovation, Sousa did what he called ‘the meanest thing in my life.’”

Descriere

Scores to Settle brings classical music to life through stories about the struggle to create and perform it. Following Grace Notes for a Year, Norman Gilliland’s popular earlier book of musical anecdotes, Scores to Settle brings together 366 brief true stories ranging from the inspirational to the burlesque, all of them illuminating the musical experience for composers, musicians, and listeners.