
For the Love of Music
A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening
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John Mauceri
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John Mauceri
With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should I listen to classical music? How can I get the most from the listening experience?
A protégé of Leonard Bernstein - his colleague for 18 years - and an eminent conductor who has toured and recorded all over the world, John Mauceri helps us to reap the joys and pleasures classical music has to offer. Briefly, we learn the way a musical tradition born in ancient Greece, embraced by the Roman Empire, and subsequently nurtured by influences from across the globe, gave shape to the classical music that came to be embraced by cultures from Japan to Bolivia. Then Mauceri examines the music itself, helping us understand what it is we hear when we listen to classical music: how, by a kind of sonic metaphor, it expresses the deepest recesses of human feeling and emotion; how each piece bears the traces of its history; how the concert experience - a unique one each and every time - allows us to discover music anew. Unpretentious, graceful, instructive, this is a book for the aficionado, the novice, and anyone looking to have the love of music fired within them.
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"Mauceri’s love letter will provoke newbies to give classical a whirl and inspire fans to listen with fresh ears.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Classical-music aficionados will enjoy Mauceri’s discussions of composers and their works. Newbies will find them instructive, but the author would caution all readers to not just take his word for it, but to experience the music and hear for themselves.” (Joan Curbow, Booklist)
“The author’s joy for music is infectious.... Even those who know classical music well will learn something from this lively and enthusiastic primer.” (Kirkus Reviews)
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A great learning from the author's own experience with classical music.
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I learned so much about the roots of its forms and their evolution over the Centuries, the characters and motivations of its Masters, and the Context and History of its iconic Works. I won’t say that I listen to Classical Music that often, but I feel that it has served as a Mile Marker for various events and times of my Life. Reading this book has filled in the colors of the pictures those moments have evoked.
If I had one reservation about For the Love of Music it would be that I would have loved to have been able to hear the Pieces he refers to immediately upon his mention. He addresses us as an audience with total familiarity with the whole range of Music that I’m sure most of us don’t possess. The Audiobook should be twice as long, accompanied by a Spotify Playlist. Then it would be perfect.
Four Stars. ****
A great experience sullied only by how little I knew.
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Again, all is presented as if in a pleasant leisurely afternoon conversation. Mauceri weaves the story of his journey into music among the chapters. To have such a vicarious experience was an aspect of the book that I found especially enthralling. If the passion and magic of music are a wonder to you, put yourself in a seat with Maestro Mauceri. This audiobook is a treasure.
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