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Scores to settle
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- Book Synopsis
- This title includes 366 miniature true tales spanning five centuries of classical music. ""Scores to Settle"" brings classical music to life through stories about the struggle to create and perform it. Following ""Grace Notes for a Year"", Norman Gilliland's popular earlier book of musical anecdotes, ""Scores to Settle"" brings together 366 brief true stories ranging from the inspirational to the burlesque, all of them illuminating the musical experience for composers, musicians, and listeners. Among the hundreds of musicians discussed in ""Scores to Settle"" are: Robert and Clara Schumann, Grieg, Mozart, Rossini, Sousa, Haydn, Johann Strauss, Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, Liszt, Beethoven, Bizet, Mendelssohn, Paganini, Piazzolla, Bach, Debussy, Schoenberg, Berlioz, Ives, Handel, Khachaturian, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Horowitz, Ravel, Karajan, Wagner, Stravinsky, Casals, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin, Elgar, Webern, Richard Strauss, Saint-Saens, Lloyd Webber, Menotti, Weill, Bruckner, Mahler, Dvorak, Te Kanawa, Brahms, Perlman, Salerno-Sonnenberg, Leinsdorf, Solti, Sullivan, Toscanini, Rachmaninoff, Joplin, Chopin, and Paderewski.
- About The Author
- Norman Gilliland has hosted classical music radio broadcasts since 1977. He is the creator of the radio feature Grace Notes, which airs daily on many public radio stations nationwide. He is the author of a historical novel, Sand Mansions, and lives in Middleton, Wisconsin.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780971509337
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- NEMO Productions, (30 October 2009)
- Number of Pages
- 395
- Weight
- 490 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 226 x 152 x 25 mm
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