Research Catalog

Title

Music talks : conversations with musicians / Helen Epstein.

Author

Epstein, Helen, 1947-

Publication

New York : McGraw-Hill, c1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

Irwin K. Carson Collection. mus

Description

xiii, 241 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

Bringing investigative reporting to bear on contemporary classical music, Epstein presents 13 profiles and interviews to take an inside look at musicians and the creative process. She portrays Leonard Bernstein teaching young conductors at Tanglewood; Yo Yo Ma, Rudolf Serkin and Seiji Ozawa discussing their musical philosophies, their personal feelings about their art and the creative process; and Vladimir Horowitz discussing his legendary career. Epstein does not restrict herself to the lives of celebrities, but includes portraits of lesser-known musicians. These include Cecylia Arzewski, a child prodigy schooled by Itzhak Perelman; Pinchas Zuckerman, the first female associate concert master of a major symphony orchestra; Hugo Burghauser, who brought European practices to the United States; and Dorothy DeLay, the first woman master violin teacher of Western music. Epstein covers their successes and failures, psychology and techniques. ISBN 0-07-019544-7: $17.95.

Alternative Title

Conversations with musicians

Subject

Musicians > Interviews

Genre/Form

Interviews

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : writing about musicians -- Vladimir Horowitz -- Learning to conduct at Tanglewood --Listening to Lenny -- The best violin teacher in the world -- Chamber music up in the hills : the history of Marlboro -- The marketing of James Galway -- A European musician in America -- An American free-lancer -- The Juilliard Quartet : scenes from a marriage -- Yo-Yo Ma -- The Leventritt Competition -- Andrew Kazdin -- The life of sin : profile of an orchestra musician.

ISBN

0070195447

LCCN

^^^86033725^/MN

OCLC

• 15054723
• SCSB-10175692

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library