A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony Under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti by Patner, Andrew
A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony Under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti by Patner, Andrew

A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony Under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti

"Playing in an orchestra in an intelligent way is the best school for democracy."--Daniel Barenboim The Chicago...
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A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony Under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti by Patner, Andrew

A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony Under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti

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A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony Under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti by Patner, Andrew

A Portrait in Four Movements: The Chicago Symphony Under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti

$386.10
Author: Andrew Patner
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"Playing in an orchestra in an intelligent way is the best school for democracy."--Daniel Barenboim

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been led by a storied group of conductors. And from 1994 to 2015, through the best work of Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, and Riccardo Muti, Andrew Patner was right there. As a classical music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and WFMT radio, Patner was able to trace the arc of the CSO's changing repertories, all while cultivating a deep rapport with its four principal conductors.

This book assembles Patner's reviews of the concerts given by the CSO during this time, as well as transcripts of his remarkable radio interviews with these colossal figures. These pages hold tidbits for the curious, such as Patner's "driving survey" that playfully ranks the Maestri he knew on a scale of "total comfort" to "fright level five," and the observation that Muti appears to be a southpaw on the baseball field. Moving easily between registers, they also open revealing windows onto the sometimes difficult pasts that brought these conductors to music in the first place, including Boulez's and Haitink's heartbreaking experiences of Nazi occupation in their native countries as children. Throughout, these reviews and interviews are threaded together with insights about the power of music and the techniques behind it--from the conductors' varied approaches to research, preparing scores, and interacting with other musicians, to how the sound and personality of the orchestra evolved over time, to the ways that we can all learn to listen better and hear more in the music we love. Featuring a foreword by fellow critic Alex Ross on the ethos and humor that informed Patner's writing, as well as an introduction and extensive historical commentary by musicologist Douglas W. Shadle, this book offers a rich portrait of the musical life of Chicago through the eyes and ears of one of its most beloved critics.

Author: Andrew Patner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 04/19/2019
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780226609911


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2019 pg. 124

About the Author
Andrew Patner was a Chicago-based journalist, broadcaster, critic, and interviewer.
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