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The Sound of Broadway Music - A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations (Paperback)
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The Sound of Broadway Music - A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations (Paperback)
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Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker,
Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical
theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the
orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book
ever written about these unsung stars of the Broadway musical whose
work is so vital to each show's success. The book examines the
careers of Broadway's major orchestrators and follows the song as
it travels from the composer's piano to the orchestra pit. Steven
Suskin has meticulously tracked down thousands of original
orchestral scores, piecing together enigmatic notes and notations
with long-forgotten documents and current interviews with dozens of
composers, producers, conductors and arrangers. The information is
separated into three main parts: a biographical section which gives
a sense of the life and world of twelve major theatre
orchestrators, as well as incorporating briefer sections on another
thirty arrangers and conductors; a lively discussion of the art of
orchestration, written for musical theatre enthusiasts (including
those who do not read music); a biographical section which gives a
sense of the life and world of twelve major theatre orchestrators,
as well as incorporating briefer sections on another thirty
arrangers and conductors; and an impressive show-by-show listing of
more than seven hundred musicals, in many cases including a
song-by-song listing of precisely who orchestrated what along with
relevant comments from people involved with the productions.
Stocked with intriguing facts and juicy anecdotes, many of which
have never before appeared in print, The Sound of Broadway Music
brings fascinating and often surprising new insight into the world
of musical theatre.
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