In Concert: Onstage and Offstage With the Boston Symphony Orchestra

By Carl A. Vigeland

Book Overview

To Seiji Ozawa, the Boston Symphony Orchestra season is filled with challenges. The audience at the opening night concert is greeted by leaflets declaring the musicians' grievances: A strike may cut... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688075517
• ISBN13: 9780688075514
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

In concert is on target

I am not a musician but I bought it for my son who is. I picked it up and couldn't put it down. I never knew what a big time symphony is really like. This author does a great job. I have to find other books by him. Whether or not you are a musician or not you will find this story fascinating. This is a must read for anyone who ever thought about playing in a big time symphony. Gary

The professional musician's life - and more

Vigeland's work is an exceptional picture of the professional musician's life. It is essential reading for any student seeking a career in classical music. More, it is a picture of how 'work' and 'life' weave together in positive and negative ways. Because of that, it is a worthwhile 'read' for anyone whose work and life are closely related.

Wonderfully crafted inside view of a major symphony orchestr

Vigeland offers a very well written, fly-on-the- wall, view of a year in the life of a major symphony orchestra and its conductor. It is a fascinating tale of how orchestras' create good, not-so-good, and sometimes great music in the midst of personality clashes between extremely talented, well intentioned, players and their Maestro, in this case Seiji Ozawa. The centerpiece of the book is a description of how the Boston Symphony Orchestra prepared for and recorded Mahler's second symphony. Hard to put down.