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Classical Music: Expect the Unexpected

Classical Music: Expect the Unexpected

Nagano, Kent
Kloepfer, Inge

Hardcover

MusiciansClassical Music

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ISBN10: 0773556346
ISBN13: 9780773556348
Publisher: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Published: Feb 25 2019
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

How relevant is classical music today? The genre seems in danger of becoming nothing more than a hobby for the social elite. Yet Kent Nagano has another world in mind - one where everyone has access to classical music.

In Classical Music: Expect the Unexpected the world-famous classical conductor tells the deeply personal story of his own engagement with the masterpieces and great composers of classical music, his work with the world's major orchestras, and his tireless commitment to bringing his music to everybody. Narrating his first childhood encounters with music's power to overcome social and ethnic boundaries, he celebrates an art form that has always taken part in debates about human values and societal developments. The constantly declining relevance of classical music in these disrupted times, he argues, not only impoverishes society from a cultural perspective but robs it of inspiration, wit, emotional depth, and a sense of community. Getting to grips with classical music's existential crisis, Nagano contends that it is too crucial to humanity's survival to be allowed to silently disappear from our everyday reality.

In this moving autobiography, Kent Nagano makes a compelling plea for classical music that is as exhilarating as it is thought-provoking.

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