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Evenings with the Orchestra

Evenings with the Orchestra

Berlioz, Hector

Paperback

Classical MusicGeneral MusicMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0226043746
ISBN13: 9780226043746
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 15 1999
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.51
Language: English
During the performances of fashionable operas in an unidentified but civilized town in northern Europe, the musicians (with the exception of the conscientious bass drummer) tell tales, read stories, and exchange gossip to relieve the tedium of the bad music they are paid to perform. In this delightful and now classic narrative written by the brilliant composer and critic Hector Berlioz, we are privy to twenty-five highly entertaining evenings with a fascinating group of distracted performers. As we near the two-hundredth anniversary of Berlioz's birth, Jacques Barzun's pitch-perfect translation of Evenings with the Orchestra -with a new foreword by Berlioz scholar Peter Bloom-testifies to the enduring pleasure found in this most witty and amusing book.

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