Absolutely on Music: Conversations
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (967 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01C1LUFAA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 535 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The Conductor and The Deep Listener" according to Dr. Debra Jan Bibel. Classical music has scores with composers' notes and instructions; yet each performance, each conductor, each orchestra creates a different result. Soloists especially make a career out of their unique approach to the music. Novelist Haruki Murakami and conductor Seiji Ozawa, battling cancer, had a series of conversations on such subjects, as well as on Ozawa's life as a music director. This book, in translation, presents the interviews conducted over several years. Murakami happens also to be an avid collector of classical albums, CD and LP, and besides an. A Pleasant, Comfortable Afternoon Listening to Music Lovers I enjoyed Ozawa confirming my suspicions about the styles of other conductors—particularly Bernstein. Murakami and I share a bewilderment on Mahler. I was happy to find this out.. Interesting read Nice insight if you are classical music lover. Conversation is between two great maestros in two different art world which makes it even more intriguing.
. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. Coetzee, Milan Kundera and V. Naipaul.Translated by JAY RUBIN. S. M. HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo
In some ways, these conversations are High Fidelity for classical music fans." —Publishers Weekly"Absolutely on Music shows Murakami's gift for writing about a subject unpretentiously, but in detail, betraying its enthusiasm only through the act of writing. Talking about music is like dancing about architecture, it's often said, but what joy to watch these two friends dance." —The Guardian (UK)"The book shines as a deep exploration into how a conductor does his job and how performer personalities, logistical factors and mundane bureaucracies can change an orchestra's sound. .
In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a series of conversations on their shared passion: music. A deep reflection on the essential nature of both music and writing, Absolutely on Music is an unprecedented glimpse into the minds of two maestros.A selection of the music discussed by Murakami and Ozawa is available at harukimurakami.. Culminating in Murakami’s ten-day visit to the banks of Lake Geneva to observe Ozawa’s retreat for young musicians, the book is interspersed with ruminations on record collecting, jazz clubs, orchestra halls, film scores, and much more. They listen to and dissect recordings of some of their favorite performances, and Murakami questions Ozawa about his career conducting orchestras around the world. A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Over the course of two years, Murakami and Ozawa discuss everything from Brahms to Beethoven, from Leonard Bernstein to Glenn Gould, from Bartók to Mahler, and from pop-up orchestras to opera