Season with Solti

Fülszöveg

The Grandeur and the Guts of a Great
Symphony Orchestra ^^.Sq
A symphony orchestra is not only beautiful music but "the fears, doubts, angers, and vaulting ambitions" of the people who make it up.
William Barry Furlong spent a year with Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Here, in Season with Solti, he reveals the personal drama, the professional conflicts, and the musical secrets of the musicians who, on the stage, all look very much the same.
Here is an intimate portrait of Maestro Solti, who has been called "the screaming skull," as he mellows and tames "the loudest orchestra in the world." Solti is the authority—always firm, sometimes furious—but never without the vitality and presence that have become his hallmarks.
Furlong takes us backstage to reveal the entire panorama of the orchestra's season:
The intricacies and diplomacy of planning programs and scheduling temperamental and very busy artists years in advance.
The logistics of touring the United... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The Grandeur and the Guts of a Great
Symphony Orchestra ^^.Sq
A symphony orchestra is not only beautiful music but "the fears, doubts, angers, and vaulting ambitions" of the people who make it up.
William Barry Furlong spent a year with Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Here, in Season with Solti, he reveals the personal drama, the professional conflicts, and the musical secrets of the musicians who, on the stage, all look very much the same.
Here is an intimate portrait of Maestro Solti, who has been called "the screaming skull," as he mellows and tames "the loudest orchestra in the world." Solti is the authority—always firm, sometimes furious—but never without the vitality and presence that have become his hallmarks.
Furlong takes us backstage to reveal the entire panorama of the orchestra's season:
The intricacies and diplomacy of planning programs and scheduling temperamental and very busy artists years in advance.
The logistics of touring the United States—providing unsqueaky chairs at every stop and transporting a $75,000 Stradivarius.
The engineering and the economics of classical-music recording.
The tightrope-walking of playing in a hall known as an "acoustical calamity."
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Here are the backstage stories and the human dramas behind the perfect sound of Georg Soiti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
William Barry Furlong pulls aside the curtain and reveals the emotions, the logistics, the history, and even the money behind a Season with Solti.
From a summer retreat for study and preparation, through the grueling schedule of rehearsals, concerts, and recordings, to the final "thank you" from the maestro, the sound and the soul of the Chicago Symphony are exposed in all their glorious and hardworking majesty. Vissza