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Amadeus Press Behind the Baton: An American Icon Talks Music - Schwarz/Frost - Text

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Behind the Baton: An American Icon Talks Music - Schwarz/Frost - Text

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Author/Composer:
SCHWARZ/FROST
Instrumentation:
TEXT
Model #:
139525
Authors: Gerard Schwarz, Maxine Frost
Format: Hardcover
Version: Text

To speak of Gerard Schwarz -- musician, conductor, festival organizer, gig hopper, educator, television personality, patron and proselytizer of the arts -- is to tell an exemplary American story.

You could convey it exclusively in cliches, from his industrious emigre parents to his precocious childhood, from his ardour and diligence as a prodigy trumpeter to his meteoric rise as a conductor, from his unforeseen cross-country migration to the gradual construction of a world-class orchestra in a city formerly regarded as a cultural backwater, from the halls of New York City's High School of Performing Arts to the digital instructor's chair of the All-Star Orchestra's Khan Academy course series.

You could simply recite the numbers: over 300 new works premiered, over 350 recordings in his discography, 14 GRAMMY nominations, five Emmy awards, six ASCAP Awards, and hundreds of other honours and laurels.

You could dazzle and festoon and bewitch with talk of truth and beauty and the pursuit of ever-higher forms of artistic expression.

Or you could tell it Jerry's way.

Behind the Baton is a quintessentially Schwarzian memoir: intrepid, forthright, risible, subtly self-assured, and entirely unpretentious. It offers an intimate inside look at a man whose immense talent is rivaled only by his humility and work ethic -- a man who, for nearly fifty years, has strived to leave every orchestra and musician he touched better than when he found them. Whether you're a classical music aficionado, an orchestra initiate just cutting your teeth, or an everyday reader interested in the remarkable story behind an extraordinary man, Behind the Baton belongs on your nightstand.

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