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Music as Alchemy

By Tom Service

Music as Alchemy

By Tom Service

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How are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant, but belligerent musicians? The mute choreography of great conductors has fascinated and frustrated musicians and music-lovers for centuries. Orchestras can be inspired to the heights of musical and expressive possibility by their maestros, or flabbergasted that someone who doesn't even make a sound should be elevated to demigod-like status by the public. This is the first book to go inside the rehearsal rooms of some of the most inspirational orchestral partnerships in the world - how Simon Rattle works at the Berlin Philharmonic, how Mariss Jansons deals with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, and how Claudio Abbado creates the world's most luxurious pick-up band every year with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. From London to Budapest, Bamberg to Vienna, great orchestral concerts are recreated as a collection of countless human and musical stories.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2018-02-04
Publication Date:
2014-09-04
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0571240488
ISBN13:
9780571240487
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
236 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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