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From Boulanger to Stockhausen: Interviews and a Memoir
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From Boulanger to Stockhausen concludes with a poignant memoir by Varga of his experiences growing up in a Jewish family in Hungary during World War II and the early years of Communist rule. Varga's recollections also include details about his many interviews with some of these remarkable musicians, and about his employment at the Hungarian state radio station and then in the music-publishing industry, which brought him to, among other places, Vienna, where he now lives. Interviewees: Claudio Abbado, Georges Auric, Cathy Berberian, Nadia Boulanger, Ernest Bour, Alfred Brendel, Aaron Copland, Sir Neville Cardus, Antal Dorti, Adm Fischer, Ivn Fischer, Gza Frid, Sir William Glock, Sylvia Goldstein, Alois Hba, Ralph Kirkpatrick, Gyrgy Kurtg, Walter Legge, Gyrgy Ligeti, Witold Lutoslawski, Sir Neville Marriner, Yehudi Menuhin, Eugene Ormandy, Vladlemuter, Arthur Rubinstein, Gyrgy Sndor, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Isaac Stern, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Wolfgang Stresemann, Walter Susskind, Hans Swarowsky, Joseph Szigeti, Tibor Varga. Blint Andrs Varga has spent morethan forty years working for and with composers. His previous books include Gyrgy Kurtg: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages and Three Questions for Sixty-Five Composers, both published by the University of Rochester Press.
From Boulanger to Stockhausen concludes with a poignant memoir by Varga of his experiences growing up in a Jewish family in Hungary during World War II and the early years of Communist rule. Varga's recollections also include details about his many interviews with some of these remarkable musicians, and about his employment at the Hungarian state radio station and then in the music-publishing industry, which brought him to, among other places, Vienna, where he now lives. Interviewees: Claudio Abbado, Georges Auric, Cathy Berberian, Nadia Boulanger, Ernest Bour, Alfred Brendel, Aaron Copland, Sir Neville Cardus, Antal Dorti, Adm Fischer, Ivn Fischer, Gza Frid, Sir William Glock, Sylvia Goldstein, Alois Hba, Ralph Kirkpatrick, Gyrgy Kurtg, Walter Legge, Gyrgy Ligeti, Witold Lutoslawski, Sir Neville Marriner, Yehudi Menuhin, Eugene Ormandy, Vladlemuter, Arthur Rubinstein, Gyrgy Sndor, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Isaac Stern, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Wolfgang Stresemann, Walter Susskind, Hans Swarowsky, Joseph Szigeti, Tibor Varga. Blint Andrs Varga has spent morethan forty years working for and with composers. His previous books include Gyrgy Kurtg: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages and Three Questions for Sixty-Five Composers, both published by the University of Rochester Press.
Hardcover
$55.00