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Charles Munch (Hardcover, New)
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Charles Munch (Hardcover, New)
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A mesmerizing figure in concert, Charles Munch was celebrated for
his electrifying public performances. He was a pioneer in many
arenas of classical music--establishing Berlioz in the canon,
perfecting the orchestral work of Debussy and Ravel, and leading
the world to Roussel, Honegger, and Dutilleux. A pivotal figure,
his accomplishments put him on a par with Arturo Toscanini and
Leonard Bernstein.
In Charles Munch, D. Kern Holoman provides the first full biography
of this giant of twentieth-century music, tracing his dramatic
survival in occupied Paris, his triumphant arrival at the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, and his later years, when he was a leading
cultural figure in the United States, a man known and admired by
Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. He turned to conducting
only in middle age, after two decades as a violinist and
concertmaster, a background which gave him special insight into the
relationship between conductor and orchestra. At the podium, his
bond with his musicians unleashed something in them and in himself.
"A certain magic took wing that amounts to the very essence of
music in concert," the author writes, as if "public performance
loosed the facets of character and artistry and poetry otherwise
muffled by his timidity and simple disinclination to say much." In
concert, Munch was arresting, even seductive, sweeping his baton in
an enormous arch from above his head down to his knee. Yet as
Holoman shows, he remained a lonely, even sad figure, a widower
with no children, a man who fled admirers and avoided reporters.
With groundbreaking research and sensitive, lyrical writing,
Charles Munch penetrates the enigma to capture this elusive musical
titan.
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