I am a Conductor * * SIGNED * *
Language: English
Published by Oxford Univesity Press, New York, 1955
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.Theoria Books
AbeBooks seller since June 12, 2016
Condition: Used - Near fine
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104 pp., xxxiii. NAP. Following the Foreword by John N. Burk and Introduction by Leonard Burkat, Contents divided into 9 chapters: I. "Prelude on Several Themes"; II. "Years of Apprenticeship"; III. "Becoming a Conductor"; IV. "Making the Program"; V. "Face to Face with the Score"; VI. "Rehearsing"; VII. "Concerts"; VIII. "The Musician's Life"; IX. "The Conductor's Life"; Appendix: "The Repertoire of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in its First Five Seasons Under the Musical Direction of Charles Munch", pp. 95-104. Medium blue dustwrapper not price-clipped ($2.75) with coarse-grained black and white photo-portrait on lower half front cover of Author in action on the podium; Title lettering in large white cursive across top third front cover, just below smaller white printed letters for Author name across top front cover. 1" piece from spine edge to spine edge missing at foot of spine, smaller piece (1/4") missing across top spine; cover edges at fore-edge worn (moderate amount of blue worn away, revealing white paper beneath), as with right spine edge; missing small bits at cover corners; several small tears along top edges; 3/8" tear up from bottom edge near mid-point (all Now backed with Archival tape) : NOW in Brodart mylar which modulates these dissonant parts soundly. Medium blue cloth with dark blue Title lettering and white Author name lettering on spine; small illustration at upper center front cover of a dark blue line drawing of a music stand and a horizontal white baton below it. 3a3-point rubbing wear to each spine end and teeny tip wear at book corners, else Fine (Dustwrapper did its job.) Inscribed by Author "To my friend Harry Shapiro--/very cordially/ {SIGNED] / Boston 2[0] MAY 55. " Harry Shapiro was a French horn player, inter alia, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 60 years. [See Obituary by Jeremy Eichler in Boston Globe for July 4, 2014, "Harry Shapiro, 100; horn player spent decades with BSO".].…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- I am a Conductor * * SIGNED * *
- Author
- Charles Munch / Translated by Leonard Burkat
- Publisher
- Oxford Univesity Press, New York
- Publication year
- 1955
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Theoria Books
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