Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
book
BookPrinted Material
Author Murakami, Haruki, 1949- author.

Title Absolutely on music : conversations / Haruki Murakami with Seiji Ozawa ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
©2016

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML422.O9 A5    Available  
Description xix, 325 pages ; 21 cm
Note Translated from the Japanese.
Originally published in Japan as Ozawa Seiji-san to, ongaku ni tsuite hanashi o suru by Shinchosa, Tokyo, in 2011.
Contents Mostly on the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto -- On manic record collectors -- Brahms at Carnegie Hall -- The relationship of writing to music -- What happened in the 1960s -- Eugene Ormandy's baton -- On the music of Gustav Mahler -- From Chicago blues to Shin'ichi Mori -- The joys of opera -- In a little Swiss town -- "There's no single way to teach. You make it up as you go along."
Summary An intimate conversation about music and writing illuminates the perspectives and shared interests of the internationally acclaimed author of "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Subject Ozawa, Seiji, 1935- -- Interviews.
Ozawa, Seiji, 1935-
Genre/Form Interviews.
Subject Conductors (Music) -- Interviews.
Conductors (Music)
Music -- History and criticism.
Music.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical.
MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Interviews.
Added Author Rubin, Jay, 1941- translator.
Ozawa, Seiji, 1935- author.
Added Title Ozawa Seiji-san to, ongaku ni tsuite hanashi o suru. English
Other Form: Online version: Ozawa, Seiji, 1935- Absolutely on music New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016 9780385354356 (DLC) 2016009343
ISBN 9780385354349 (hardcover)
0385354347 (hardcover)
9780804173728
0804173729