Tanglewood: A Group Memoir | 
| Author: Peggy Daniel
Publisher: Amadeus Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 658757
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 258
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 1574671677
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
EAN: 9781574671674
ASIN: 1574671677
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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The story of Tanglewood - the summer home of the Boston Symphony since 1935 - as told in first-person accounts by such Tanglewood luminaries as Leonard Bernstein, Serge Koussevitzky, Aaron Copland, Erich Leinsdorf, Phyllis Curtin, Seiji Ozawa, Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, John Harbison, James Levine, and many of the leading musicians, critics, and music professionals who consider Tanglewood a second home. A "documentary" coffee-table book including letters, speeches, interviews, vintage newspaper articles, and a treasure trove of photographs from the BSO's archvies, woven together by a narrative thread and commented on by the author. Among the dozens of stories included: * Student Lenny Bernstein writes the folks back home about "Koussie" and the "Boiks"; ten years later, conductor Leonard Bernstein inspires the students with his own brand of oratory * Boris Goldovsky reminisces about the glory days of the Tanglewood Opera Department where he discovered Leontyne Price, Sherrill Milnes, and an amazing number of soon-to-become-famous young American singers * Gunther Schuller's 1979 Tanglewood manifesto is the talk of the music world * Oliver Knussen relates how Rostopovich told the Shed audience of the death of Shostakovich after conducting the composer's Fifth Symphony * Seiji Ozawa remembers his student trip to Tanglewood on a Bonanza bus with only a few phrases of English at his command and very few dollars in his pocket * The transformation of Tanglewood under the orchestra's new Music Director, James Levine
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Tanglewood: a group Memoir July 26, 2008
Tanglewood: A group Memoir, is a beautiful book, marvelously produced, collected, written and illustrated by fascinating historical photographs. It begins in the Berkshires with a philanthropic and musically niclined heiress wondering if her large meadow would be a nice place for concert, and continues through decades of musical anecdotes, archive, elucidation and delightful gossip. Everyone who has ever picniced on the lawn at Tanglewood, or wanted to do so, or who has any interest at all in the history of serious music in the United States will delight in this book.
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