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Turning the Pages - Recollections of a Musical Autograph Collector and Page-Turner for the Amerstadam Concertgerouw (Hardcover)
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Turning the Pages - Recollections of a Musical Autograph Collector and Page-Turner for the Amerstadam Concertgerouw (Hardcover)
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"Can you read music too?" This question, addressed by the singer
Lili Kraus in 1936 to the 15 year-old Robert Brouwer, then a
regular autograph collector haunting the artist's entrance of the
Amsterdam Concertgebouw, was the start of his short but memorable
years as a page-turner to many of the great musicians who performed
there before 1940. The author's passion for music, starting with
his time at the Concertgebouw and continuing throughout his life in
many parts of the world, shines vividly in the pages of this book.
Here, enlivened with photographs and with some of the gems from the
author's youthful collection of autographs, we meet many of the
greatest musicians of the 20th century. But there is more than
that. From his discussion of Willem Mengelberg, the conductor who
made the Concertgebouw Orchestra great but ended his life in
eclipse, to his account of Nigel Kennedy taking time off to jam in
a "hole-in-the-wall" night club in Kowloon, it is the authors' gift
to relate, on a personal level to the musicians he met, that serves
to make these recollections of what they did and said, and of the
opinions they expressed, both fascinating and endearing.
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