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The black horn : the story of classical French hornist Robert Lee Watt

Title: The black horn : the story of classical French hornist Robert Lee Watt / Robert Lee Watt.
Author: Watt, Robert Lee
Publication: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

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Description

xi, 267 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

African American cultural theory and heritage

Uniform Title

African American cultural theory and heritage.

Subject

Note

Includes index.

Contents

Prelude -- Early memories -- Back to Asbury Park -- Left back -- First love -- Music chose me -- Adolescent secrets -- A random blessing -- First date -- Pleasure and pain -- Lessons in life -- My great escape -- First sweet victory -- Tension -- Welcome to the world -- Music camp and the Boston Pops -- Best summer -- Turning pro -- Musical adventures -- Tanglewood -- The musical mountain -- First auditions -- Madness! -- The Los Angeles Philharmonic -- The dream -- Black Los Angeles -- Deeper into the dream -- Emotional highs and lows -- To Viet Nam? -- On with life -- Fear of flying -- Japan -- A new black player and The ARK -- Leave the LA Philharmonic? -- What we fear the most -- Conversations with Jerome Ashby -- Challenged by a peer -- Give it up -- My sandbox buddy -- Where had he been all my life? -- Who was he, really? -- Tales from the symphony -- Final revelations -- The New Brass Ensemble and adventures with Madame -- More European adventures -- A black brass quintet in Finland? -- Enchanting encounters -- What I live for -- "It's good to be Negro!" -- Missing Miles -- Salzburg Festival -- Finale -- Appendix. List of Negro musicians compiled by the New York Philharmonic (April 1969).

Call Number

Sc E 15-572

ISBN

9781442239388 (cloth : alk. paper)
1442239387 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442239395 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
1442239395 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014018746

OCLC

879642572

Author

Watt, Robert Lee, author.

Title

The black horn : the story of classical French hornist Robert Lee Watt / Robert Lee Watt.

Publisher

Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African American cultural theory and heritage

African American cultural theory and heritage.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 15-572

JNE 15-67

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