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2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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v. 1. Good music is timeless / Mischa Elman -- Are conductors necessary? / Eugene Ormandy -- I sing for the Lord / Mahalia Jackson -- Success requires dicipline / Maurice Chevalier -- What is a conductor? / Antal Dorati -- Don't be a teenage "has been" / Connie Francis -- Happiness is a whispering hope / Danny Kaye -- Rx for ailing strings / Yehudi Menuhin -- Remembrance of swings past / Benny Goodman -- TV needs good music / Ed Sullivan -- Life: a fantasy wtih music / Pablo Casals -- How jazz came to life / Louis Armstrong -- How well do I play the violin? / Jack Benny -- Fidelio! / Karl Boehm -- How the Boston beguine began / Alice Ghosltey -- What's in a name? / Skitch Henderson -- The ballet: an invisible art / Alicia Markova -- Fad, fans and foreign ambassadors / Nat "King" Cole -- Cello through the centuries / Aldo Parisot -- Praise or blame / Julius Rudel -- Father knew best / Walter Slezak -- Mass media & Americana / Alfredo Antonini -- The artist as an individualist / Eileen Farrell -- A composer's credo / Howard Hanson -- Cultivate that musical youngster / Al Hirt -- Rhythm is life / Ignacy Jan Paderewski -- Other stories / Paul Whiteman -- A singer's philosophy of music / Giorgio Tozzi -- Modern music and the cello / Mstislav Rostropovich -- How to protect music / Burton Lane -- Twenty years on thirty-ninth street / Richard Tucker -- A look at music arranging / Robert Russell Bennett -- Live and learn / Elizabeth Schwarzkopf -- The musical ear / Peggy Wood -- Concerning the cello / Janos Starker -- To the love song - with love / Richard Rodgers -- Adventures in the Mid-East / Duke Ellington -- The violinists' circus then and now / Ruggiero Ricci -- Musical notation is relative / Erich Leinsdorf -- The language of the heart / Marcel Marceau -- To thine own self, be true! / Noel Coward -- Music of aframerica: my songs / Roland Hayes -- Selecting a vocie teacher / Nicolai Gedda -- The world of sound / Alexander Tcherepnin -- -- |
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v. 2. Good music is good business / Leopold Stokowski -- A living music culture / Serge Koussevitzky -- The need for quality / Walter Hendl -- Here come the old pros! / Lionel Hampton -- First - and last - performances / Paul Creston -- An explanation of the "blues" / W. C. Handy -- Should composers conduct? / Stanislaw Skrowaczewski -- The story of Jazz / Count Basie -- Big talent gets through / Geza Anda -- My kind of music / Richard Rodgers -- The development of music / Aram Khachaturian -- Dissonanace is today - consonance is tomorrow / Nadia Boulanger -- I don't need to see / Ray Charles -- Opera: music is all / Dmitri Shostakovich -- "I am serious (conducting)" / Victor Borge -- To thine own voice, be true! / Shirley Verrett -- A galaxy of space music / George Pal -- The function of a conductor / William Steinberg -- Living in the past / Harry Hershfield -- To the stars through hardships / Pierre Fournier -- Why translate opera? / Thomas Martin -- How to succeed as a singer / Vikki Carr -- The malady lingers on / William Schuman -- The talent is here! / Vaclav Nelhybel -- A fiddler's food and fitness / Yehudi Menuhin -- What is a conductor? / Gennadi Rozhdestvensky -- A recipe for success / Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart -- Love what you do / Danny Kaye -- The future of the orchestra / Edouard Van Remoortel -- Jazz is a language / Louis Armstrong -- Cio-cio-san marries Pinkerton / Monserrat Caballe -- Soviet music and its tradition / Tikhon Khrennikov -- We study with mutter / Christa Ludwig and Walter Berry -- America's musical taste / Cesare Siepi -- The poetic world of Zoltan Kodaly / Alador Toth -- Musical Saints and sinners / Paul Nettl -- Musicians who made money / Rudolph Robert -- The courageous musicians of the titanic / James Aldredge -- Cohan: A yankee doodle dandy / Oscar Hammerstein II -- The Gershwin I knew / Paul Whiteman -- Life is a song / Maurice Chevalier -- Equal Opportunity for women pianists / Claudette Sorel -- Folk songs are real / The Limeliters -- Records are my teachers / Franco Corelli -- Gershwin / Oscar Hammerstein II. |
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Music.
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Music.
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Musicians -- Correspondence.
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Musicians -- Correspondence. |
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Personal correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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