Classical Music's Strangest Concerts and Characters
Published on 17. September 2015
256 pages
978-1-910232-50-7 (ISBN)
Description
Extracted from five hundred years of musical history, this is a fascinating collection of stories about classical music's most unusual concerts and characters.
Tales such as that of the organist caught with his trousers down or the orchestra that played faster and faster so that its members could catch the last train home, the sad story of the composer who committed suicide while conducting, the completely silent piece of music and the stone deaf composer who insisted on conducting will delight all lovers of classical music. Many famous names are here, as well the less eminent music performers, in this fascinating and revealing look at what really goes on in the world of classical music.
Tales such as that of the organist caught with his trousers down or the orchestra that played faster and faster so that its members could catch the last train home, the sad story of the composer who committed suicide while conducting, the completely silent piece of music and the stone deaf composer who insisted on conducting will delight all lovers of classical music. Many famous names are here, as well the less eminent music performers, in this fascinating and revealing look at what really goes on in the world of classical music.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minneapolis
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,89 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-910232-50-7 (9781910232507)
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Brian Levison
Classical Music's Strangest Concerts and Characters
Extraordinary but True Stories from Over Five Centuries of Harmony and Discord
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Robson Books Ltd
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Brian Levison
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Captive Audience (64 AD)
- The Wrong Saint? (c. 200)
- Slip-up in the Sistine (1515)
- Masochism, Murder and Madrigals: Don Carlo Gesualdo (c.1566-1613)
- The Hit and Run Man: Alessandro Stradella (1639-82)
- On the Fiddle (1672)
- The Conductor Who Beat Himself to Death (1687)
- The Organist Who Got Cold Feet (1717)
- Old Bach Pays Tribute (1747)
- Handel With Care (1749)
- Oboe and Out (1772)
- Last Chance for the King (1788)
- How the Danes Discovered a New Composer: Dag Henrik Esrum-Hellerup (1803-91)
- Hard of Hearing (1824)
- The Disappearing Orchestra (1833)
- The Diva Who Inspired Callas (1836)
- The Vergers' Revenge (1837)
- Franz Liszt and the Big Tours (1838-47)
- With String and Sealing Wax (1844)
- The Memory Man (1844)
- The Battle of the Champ de Mars (1845)
- Named after an Orchestra (1846)
- The Great Chopinzee: Vladimir de Pachmann (1848-1933)
- Two into One Won't Go (1848)
- Music down the Tube (1849)
- Waiting for Gottschalk (1862)
- Gottschalk at Large (1865)
- Man of a Hundred Umbrellas: Erik Satie (1866-1925)
- Liebling, Look What They've Done to Our Tune! (1870)
- Just One Corno di Bassetto (1889-90)
- Several Strings to his Bow: Ennio Bolognini (1893-1979)
- Was the Conductor Drunk? (1897)
- A Timely Disagreement (1899)
- The Missing Soprano (1904)
- Conducting for the Dithyrambic: Leonard Constant Lambert (1905-51)
- Follow My Leader (1911)
- Assault at the Opera (1912)
- Not All Rite on the Night (1913)
- Mad About the Beat (1932)
- A Spanner in the Work (1937)
- The Frustrated Cellist (1939)
- Alexander's Sad Time Grand (1940)
- The Dame Who Defied the Bombs (1940)
- The Camp Where Time Ended (1941)
- A Matter of Life and Death (1944)
- Gone With the Wind (1944)
- The Tone-deaf Diva (1944)
- Brassed Off I (1952)
- The Sound of Silence (1952)
- The Frock's the Star (1953)
- Concerto for Hosepipe and Hoover (1956)
- A Disastrous First Performance (1958)
- La Donna é Mobile (1961)
- Knowing the Score (1964) 169
- Merry Pranks of a Master Pianist (1967)
- The Pianist Who Came a Kropper (1967)
- Protest at the Proms I (1968)
- Encores from the Afterlife (1971)
- The Forgotten Four Minutes (1976)
- A Bad Blow All Round (1977)
- Race against Time (1977)
- A Fishy Tale (1977)
- The Concert that Went With a Bang (1978)
- From High Society to High Security (1985)
- Brassed Off II (1991)
- An Alarming Concert (1991)
- Hove Too (1993)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen Takes to the Air (1995)
- A Show of Hands (1996)
- Concert in a Cave (1997)
- Encore to Start (1997)
- Protest at the Proms II (1998)
- The Thousand-Year Reverberation (2000)
- Heard Instinct (2000)
- Caught With His Trousers Down (2001)
- The Phantom Clock (2001)
- Brassed Off III (2003)
- Marathon Man (2003)
- The Grandest Leg-pull? (2004)
- Eat Your Instruments - They're Good for You! (2004)
- Beating Up the Festival Hall (2004)
- The Swan and the Firemen (2004)
- What a Turn She Gave (2005)
- Role Reversal (2005)
- An Unprofitable Gig (2005)
- Select Bibliography
- Copyright
