Turning the Pages: Recollections of an Musical Autograph collector and page-turner at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw - Couverture rigide

Brouwer, Robert

 
9781871082807: Turning the Pages: Recollections of an Musical Autograph collector and page-turner at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw
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ISBN 10 : 1871082803 ISBN 13 : 9781871082807
Editeur : Kahn & Averill, 2006

Synopsis

Can you read music too? This question, addressed by the singer Lili Kraus in 1936 to the 15 year-old Robert Brouwer, then a regular autograph collector haunting the artist's entrance of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, was the start of his short but memorable years as a page-turner to many of the great musicians who performed there before 1940. The author's passion for music, starting with his time at the Concertgebouw and continuing throughout his life in many parts of the world, shines vividly in the pages of this book. Here, enlivened with photographs and with some of the gems from the author's youthful collection of autographs, we meet many of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. But there is more than that. From his discussion of Willem Mengelberg, the conductor who made the Concertgebouw Orchestra great but ended his life in eclipse, to his account of Nigel Kennedy taking time off to jam in a hole-in-the-wall night club in Kowloon, it is the authors' gift to relate, on a personal level to the musicians he met, that serves to make these recollections of what they did and said, and of the opinions they expressed, both fascinating and endearing.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert Brouwer was born in Amsterdam in 1921 and was passionate about music from an early age. During the Nazi occupation of Holland he engaged in resistance work and after the war studied law and joined the diplomatic service. Later he became a professional reinsurer based in Hong Kong, which enabled him to travel world-wide. His last working years were spent in private banking before he and his wife retired to their homes in Switzerland and Spain.

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Éditeur
Kahn & Averill
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1871082803
ISBN 13 
9781871082807
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
160
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