{"product_id":"tanglewood-a-group-memoir-amadeus-9781574671674","title":"Tanglewood: A Group Memoir (Amadeus)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTanglewood: A Group Memoir (Amadeus)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Daniel, Peggy. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781574671674.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story of Tanglewood – the summer home of the Boston Symphony since 1935 – as told in first-person accounts by such Tanglewood luminaries as Leonard Bernstein, Serge Koussevitzky, Aaron Copland, Erich Leinsdorf, Phyllis Curtin, Seiji Ozawa, Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, John Harbison, James Levine, and many of the leading musicians, critics, and music professionals who consider Tanglewood a second home.\n\nA “documentary” coffee-table book including letters, speeches, interviews, vintage newspaper articles, and a treasure trove of photographs from the BSOs archvies, woven together by a narrative thread and commented on by the author.\n\nAmong the dozens of stories included:\n\n• Student Lenny Bernstein writes the folks back home about “Koussie” and the “Boiks”; ten years later, conductor Leonard Bernstein inspires the students with his own brand of oratory\n\n• Boris Goldovsky reminisces about the glory days of the Tanglewood Opera Department where he discovered Leontyne Price, Sherrill Milnes, and an amazing number of soon-to-become-famous young American singers\n\n• Gunther Schullers 1979 Tanglewood manifesto is the talk of the music world\n\n• Oliver Knussen relates how Rostopovich told the Shed audience of the death of Shostakovich after conducting the composers Fifth Symphony\n\n• Seiji Ozawa remembers his student trip to Tanglewood on a Bonanza bus with only a few phrases of English at his command and very few dollars in his pocket\n\n• The transformation of Tanglewood under the orchestras new Music Director, James Levine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Amadeus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44956715581493,"sku":"ByrdShop_1574671677","price":47.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781574671674_35160ca5-f854-4ff5-9d32-c991007f6032.jpg?v=1778972318","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tanglewood-a-group-memoir-amadeus-9781574671674","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}