Archive for the ‘Book Reviews’ Category
Book Review: Beyond The Baton: What Every Conductor Needs to Know
David Sawtelle previews Diane Wittry’s “Beyond The Baton: What Every Conductor Needs to Know.”
Book Review: The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings”
Incoming Conductors Guild President James Allen Anderson reviews a new book about the “Adagio for Strings” by Samuel Barber. Is it REALLY the “saddest music ever written?” Mr. Anderson helps you decide.
Book Review: Introduction to the Orchestra Conducting Technique in accordance with the School of Ilya Musin
Another conducting textbook! Do you need it on your bookshelf? Silas Nathaniel Huff weighs in Ennio Nicotra’s new conducting handbook.
Book Review: “Composing in Words: William Alwyn on his Art”
Conductor and pedagogue Leonard Atherton reviews a new book by (and about) 20th century British composer William Alwyn.
Book Review: “The Score, the Orchestra, and the Conductor”
Dr. Kevin McMahon thoughtfully and extensively reviews Gustav Meier’s new conducting textbook. You’ll want to read them both!
Book Review: “Orchestral ‘Pops’ Music”
Dr. Lyn Schenbeck reviews Lucy Manning’s new “must have” volume for your conducting reference bookshelf.
Book Review: “Maestros in America”
Got room in your library for something extra? You can never have too much information. Lucy Manning reviews this volume with the biographical “411″ on all the big “names” working today.
