Conductor's world / David Woolridge.
| Author/creator | Wooldridge, David |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Praeger Publishers, [1970] |
| Description | xiv, 379 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Weber, Berlioz and Wagner -- Mendelssohn, Liszt and Brahms -- Hans von Bülow -- Felix Weingartner and Richard Strauss -- Richter, Nikisch and Mahler -- Stock and Stokowski -- Koussevitsky -- Mengelberg and Toscanini -- Kleiber and Furtwängler -- Stravinsky, Weingartner and others -- Bruno Walter and Clemens Krauss -- Otto Klemperer and the British Institution -- Herbert von Karajan and Georg Szell -- St. Petersburg reborn: the Leningrad Philharmonic -- Charles Munch and the Berkshire music festival -- The NBC Symphony and the New York Philharmonic: Toscanini, Rodzinski, Mitropoulos and Bernstein -- The Power Game. |
| Abstract | The book is a documentary history of the conductor's art--in part a music treatise and in part a social commentary. At the root of the author's thinking lies the conviction that the "great performance"--with its "unforgettable" qualities, which defy the art and science of recording, and which are treasured only in the innermost recesses of the mind--is by nature ephemeral, and that, paradoxically, this is its most enduring quality. The author analyzes and describes the means by which conductors achieve their "great performances" and the significance of their achievements. Copious music examples support the text, in which the author maintains a delicate sense of balance in his descriptive writing and in his treatment of the technical aspects of his material. This book is not intended for the music scholar alone (although there is much in it that he will find valuable and interesting), but it is mainly a work for musicians and all who interest themselves in music. |
| LCCN | 77100943 |
| Stock number | 10.00 |
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