For the Love of Music, Mauceri

[[Description]]A protégé of Leonard Bernstein — his colleague for eighteen years — and an eminent conductor who has toured and recorded all over the world, John Mauceri helps readers reap the joys and pleasures classical music has to offer.The reader traces the path of a musical tradition born in ancient Greece, embraced by the Roman Empire and subsequently nurtured by influences from across the globe, gave shape to the classical music that came to be embraced by cultures from Japan to Bolivia. Mauceri examines the music itself, helping readers understand what is heard when listening to classical music — how, by a kind of sonic metaphor, it expresses the deepest recesses of human feeling and emotion; how each piece bears the traces of its history; how the concert experience allows one to discover music anew. Unpretentious, graceful, instructive, this is a book for the aficionado, the novice and anyone looking to have the love of music fired within them.Over the past five decades, John