Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Beethoven and Me: A Beginner's Guide to Classical Music

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Produktbeschreibung

Beethoven and Me: A Beginner's Guide to Classical Music is a fast paced, easy to understand survey of the music's well-known and not so well-known composers, their music and their struggles for recognition. Hutchinson brings a fresh and his very personal perspective in discussing them and their music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Middle Passage Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780692508176
• ISBN-10: 0692508171
• Artikelnr.: 43922441

Autorenporträt

Earl Ofari Hutchinson has an MA in Humanities from California State University, Dominguez Hills that included the Humanities course series on the advanced study of music, focusing on concepts of meaning and form in music. He is a sustaining member of the American Musicological Society. He has for a decade programed, featured and promoted classical music on the KPFK-Pacifica Radio Network. From1995 to 2015, he attended nearly 500 concerts by nearly every nationally and internationally known major orchestra, and that featured many of the top virtuoso performers, and attended many major festivals including the Aspen, Bach Carmel, and the Ojai Festival. He has interviewed many of the leading classical conductors, composers, and performers, He has written about classical musical developments in his columns. He moderated the prestigious panel of classical artists and musicologists on the works of Dimitri Shostakovich. He has attended and participated in numerous concert lectures and preconcert lectures. He completed the Comprehensive Music Study Series based on The History of Western Music at West Los Angeles College and studied music theory and history at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music.