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Behind the Baton: An American Icon Talks Music
Gerard Schwarz
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Description for Behind the Baton: An American Icon Talks Music
Hardcover. One of America s most renowned conductors tells the unforgettable story of his life in music. Num Pages: 304 pages, Two colour photograph inserts. BIC Classification: AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amadeus Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
834g
Number of Pages
378
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9781574674767
SKU
V9781574674767
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Ref
99-15
About Gerard Schwarz
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 ... Read more
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