Maestros and Their Music, Mauceri

[[Description]]John Mauceri — who has stood on podiums before stories symphonies, operas and ballets around the world — brings a lifetime of experience to bear in this informative and entertaining exploration of his profession. As he traces the lineage of his craft from Felix Mendelssohn to the present day, he shows us how conducting itself is a composition of legacy and tradition, of techniques handed down and more than a trace of ineffable magic.Weaving musical explanations together with memorable accounts of working alongside masters like Leonard Bernstein and Leopold Stokowski, Mauceri reveals how conductors approach a piece with a combination of personal interpretation, imagination and insight into the composer’s intent. He explores what it takes to communicate solely through gesture — sometimes with hundreds of performers at once — and provides insight into the occasionally glamorous, often challenging life of the itinerant maestro.Illuminating and instructive, inflected with can