Format:
1 online resource (334 pages)
ISBN:
9780199773220
Content:
In Charles Munch, D. Kern Holoman provides the first full biography of this giant of twentieth-century music, tracing his dramatic survival in occupied Paris, his triumphant arrival at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and his later years, when he was a leading cultural figure in the United States, a man known and admired by Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.
Content:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes on Orthography -- About the Companion Website -- 1. Strasbourg, Paris, Leipzig: September 1891-October 1932 -- 2. Paris: November 1932-May 1938 -- 3. The Société des Concerts: June 1938-May 1945 -- 4. Leaving France: June 1945-September 1949 -- 5. Winning Boston: October 1949-June 1951 -- 6. Boston after Koussevitzky: July 1951-July 1956 -- 7. The Iron Curtain and Beyond: August 1956-August 1958 -- 8. Shifting Perspectives in Boston: September 1958-April 1962 -- 9. Paris, Again: May 1962-August 1966 -- 10. The Orchestre de Paris: September 1966-November 1968 -- 11. An Eternal Smile 227 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199772704
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780199772704
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=829364
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