Behind the Baton: An American Icon Talks Music (Amadeus) - Hardcover

Schwarz, Gerard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574674765 ISBN 13: 9781574674767

Verlag: Amadeus Press, 2017

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Reseña del editor:

To speak of Gerard Schwarz - musician, conductor, festival organizer, gig hopper, educator, television personality, patron and proselytizer of the arts - is to tell an exemplary American story. You could convey it exclusively in clichEs, from his industrious EmigrE parents to his precocious childhood, from his ardor and diligence as a prodigy trumpeter to his meteoric rise as a conductor, from his unforeseen cross-country migration to the gradual construction of a world-class orchestra in a city formerly regarded as a cultural backwater, from the halls of New York City's High School of Performing Arts to the digital instructor's chair of the All-Star Orchestra's Khan Academy course series. You could simply recite the numbers: over 300 new works premiered, over 350 recordings in his discography, 14 GRAMMY nominations, five Emmy awards, six ASCAP Awards, and hundreds of other honors and laurels. You could dazzle and festoon and bewitch with talk of truth and beauty and the pursuit of ever-higher forms of artistic expression. Or you could tell it Jerry's way. Behind the Baton is a quintessentially Schwarzian memoir: intrepid, forthright, risible, subtly self-assured, and entirely unpretentious. It offers an intimate inside look at a man whose immense talent is rivaled only by his humility and work ethic - a man who, for nearly fifty years, has strived to leave every orchestra and musician he touched better than when he found them. Whether you're a classical music aficionado, an orchestra initiate just cutting your teeth, or an everyday reader interested in the remarkable story behind an extraordinary man, Behind the Baton belongs on your nightstand.

Biografía del autor:

GERARD SCHWARZ (New York City) serves as Music Director of the Emmy-winning All-Star Orchestra series, which airs on public television. Schwarz is also Music Director of the Eastern Music Festival and the Conductor Laureate of the Seattle Symphony. The award-winning conductor is a renowned interpreter of 19th-century repertoire, in addition to his noted work with American composers. MAXINE FROST (Seattle, WA) is a writer, broadcaster, and artist/illustrator with credits in Classical Guitar magazine and Hamburger Abendblatt. Her drawings of composers have been exhibited in Europe. She is currently working on a book about contemporary pianists.

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• Verlag: Amadeus Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1574674765
• ISBN 13: 9781574674767
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 378