Amadeus

A Group Memoir

By: Peggy Daniel

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Hardcover | 17 October 2008

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The story of Tanglewood - the summer home of the Boston Symphony since 1935 - as told in first-person accounts by such Tanglewood luminaries as Leonard Bernstein, Serge Koussevitzky, Aaron Copland, Erich Leinsdorf, Phyllis Curtin, Seiji Ozawa, Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, John Harbison, James Levine, and many of the leading musicians, critics, and music professionals who consider Tanglewood a second home.

A "documentary" coffee-table book including letters, speeches, interviews, vintage newspaper articles, and a treasure trove of photographs from the BSO's archvies, woven together by a narrative thread and commented on by the author.

Among the dozens of stories included:

- Student Lenny Bernstein writes the folks back home about "Koussie" and the "Boiks"; ten years later, conductor Leonard Bernstein inspires the students with his own brand of oratory

- Boris Goldovsky reminisces about the glory days of the Tanglewood Opera Department where he discovered Leontyne Price, Sherrill Milnes, and an amazing number of soon-to-become-famous young American singers

- Gunther Schuller's 1979 Tanglewood manifesto is the talk of the music world

- Oliver Knussen relates how Rostopovich told the Shed audience of the death of Shostakovich after conducting the composer's Fifth Symphony

- Seiji Ozawa remembers his student trip to Tanglewood on a Bonanza bus with only a few phrases of English at his command and very few dollars in his pocket

- The transformation of Tanglewood under the orchestra's new Music Director, James Levine

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Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Music Under the Moon: The Early Days of the Berkshire Music Festival	p. 3
Koussevitzky's Dream: Early Days at the Berkshire Music Center	p. 21
Tanglewood Goes to War: A Great Responsibility Toward the Agonized European World	p. 47
The Happiest Summer of My Life: Tanglewood in the Postwar Era	p. 69
Boris Goldovsky and the Opera Department: Carte Blanche to Treat Opera Singers Like Full-fledged Artists	p. 91
Transitions: The Changing of the Guard	p. 109
The Leinsdorf Era: All the Music Making Was Outdoors	p. 119
Wild New Sounds: Paul Fromm and Gunther Schuller	p. 135
Singing at Tanglewood: Robert Shaw, John Oliver, and Phyllis Curtin	p. 149
Behind the Scenes at Tanglewood: Location, Location, Location Nine to Five A Tanglewood Bestiary	p. 163
Seiji: Ozawa's Quarter of a Century-Plus at Tanglewood	p. 183
The New Era at Tanglewood: James Levine	p. 221
Acknowledgments	p. 229
Notes	p. 231
Selected Bibliography	p. 241
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