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Shoot the Conductor
Brusilow, Anshel; Underdahl, Robin
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Description for Shoot the Conductor
Hardcover. Anshel Brusilow played with or conducted many top-tier classical musicians, and he has opinions about each and every one. This memoir offers a fascinating and unique view of American classical music during an important era, as well as an inspiring story of a working-class immigrant child making good in a tough arena. Series: Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: AVGC4; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 825.
Anshel Brusilow was born in 1928 and raised in Philadelphia by musical Russian Jewish parents in a neighborhood where practicing your instrument was as normal as hanging out the laundry. By the time he was sixteen, he was appearing as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also met Pierre Monteux at sixteen, when Monteux accepted him into his summer conducting school. Under George Szell, Brusilow was associate concertmaster at the Cleveland Orchestra until Ormandy snatched him away to make him concertmaster in Philadelphia, where he remained from 1959 to 1966.
Ormandy and Brusilow had a father-son relationship, but Brusilow ... Read more
Anshel Brusilow was born in 1928 and raised in Philadelphia by musical Russian Jewish parents in a neighborhood where practicing your instrument was as normal as hanging out the laundry. By the time he was sixteen, he was appearing as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also met Pierre Monteux at sixteen, when Monteux accepted him into his summer conducting school. Under George Szell, Brusilow was associate concertmaster at the Cleveland Orchestra until Ormandy snatched him away to make him concertmaster in Philadelphia, where he remained from 1959 to 1966.
Ormandy and Brusilow had a father-son relationship, but Brusilow ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of North Texas Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Denton, United States
ISBN
9781574416138
SKU
V9781574416138
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About Brusilow, Anshel; Underdahl, Robin
After a long and distinguished career in music, Anshel Brusilow retired from conducting the Richardson Symphony and lives in Dallas, USA. Robin Underdahl holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and writes fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. She also lives in Dallas, USA.
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