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How music grew in Brooklyn : a biography of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra / Maurice Edwards.
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View onlineVan Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML1211.8.B76 E4 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Maurice, 1922-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra--History.
- Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- How Music Grew in Brooklyn is a full history of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, from its nineteenth-century forerunner, the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn, to its current status as house orchestra for the equally impressive Brooklyn Academy of Music and one of the most innovative and respected symphony orchestras of modern times.
- Contents:
- Overture, the First Brooklyn Philharmonic: 1857 to 1891
- The Siegfried Landau Tenure : 1955 to 1971
- The Lukas Foss Regime: 1971 to 1990
- The Dennis Russell Davies Interregnum: 1990 to 1996
- The Robert Spano Ascendancy: 1996 to 2004.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-364) and index.
- Includes discography: pages 359-360.
- ISBN:
- 0810856662
- OCLC:
- 60603261
- Publisher Number:
- 9780810856660
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