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Music as Alchemy - Journeys with Great Conductors and their Orchestras (Paperback, Main) Loot Price: R355
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Music as Alchemy - Journeys with Great Conductors and their Orchestras (Paperback, Main): Tom Service

Music as Alchemy - Journeys with Great Conductors and their Orchestras (Paperback, Main)

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.

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Imprint: Faber and Faber
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2014
Authors: Tom Service (Music reviewer)
Dimensions: 200 x 130 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 304
Edition: Main
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-24048-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Orchestras
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Orchestras
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > General
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LSN: 0-571-24048-8
Barcode: 9780571240487

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