For the Love of Music by John Mauceri

For the Love of Music by John Mauceri

With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should I listen to classical music? How can I get the most from the listening experience?

A prot g of Leonard Bernstein--his colleague for eighteen years--and an eminent conductor who has toured and recorded all over the world, John Mauceri helps us to reap the joys and pleasures classical music has to offer. Briefly, we learn the way a musical tradition born in ancient Greece, embraced by the Roman Empire, and subsequently nurtured by influences from across the globe, gave shape to the classical music that came to be embraced by cultures from Japan to Bolivia. Then Mauceri examines the music itself, helping us understand what it is we hear when we listen to classical music: how, by a kind of sonic metaphor, it expresses the deepest recesses of human feeling and emotion; how each piece bears the traces of its history; how the concert experience--a unique one each and every time--allows us to discover music anew. Unpretentious, graceful, instructive, this is a book for the aficionado, the novice, and anyone looking to have the love of music fired within them.

John Mauceri has conducted symphonies, operas, ballets, musicals, and cinema music all over the world for the past five decades, performing in some of the world's most prestigious venues and served as music director of four opera companies and three orchestras, as well as hosting television and radio programs. He has more than fifty CDs to his credit and has been honored with a Grammy, a Tony, a Billboard, two Diapasons d'Or, three Emmys, and four Deutschen Schallplattenkritik awards. Among other media, he has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Times of London, and The Huffington Post. He currently resides in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780525520658
ISBN 10	0525520651
Title	For the Love of Music
Author	John Mauceri
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2019-09-17
Number of pages	224
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