Leonard Slatkin

Classical Crossroads

The Path Forward for Music in the 21st Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Legendary maestro Leonard Slatkin provides personal insights and offers his ideas to solve the current dilemmas of classical music.As the new millennium poses some of the greatest challenges to the relevance of the art form, Slatkin reflects on the modern evolution of classical music and presents ways for both music lovers and musicians alike to navigate these uncertain times. Classical Crossroads: The Path Forward for Music in the 21st-Century addresses a wide range of relevant and provocative topics such as performance in the era of COVID-19, shrinking audiences, the lack of classical music in public education, broken audition systems, technology replacing live concerts, and the lack of diversity in the classical music world. While the new millennium has provided great obstacles, Slatkin emphasizes that there are also new opportunities?if there was ever a time for change in classical music, that time is now.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781538152225
• ISBN-10: 1538152223
• Artikelnr.: 60695017

Autorenporträt

Internationally acclaimed conductor Leonard Slatkin is Music Director Laureate of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Directeur Musical Honoraire of the Orchestre National de Lyon, and Conductor Laureate of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He maintains a rigorous schedule of guest conducting and is active as a composer, author, and educator. A six-time Grammy winner, Slatkin is a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and holds the rank of Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. On Age
2. On Agents
3. On Audiences
4. On Composers
5. On Conducting
6. On Diversity
7. On Education
8. On Health
9. On Music Directors
10. On Nationalism
11. On Orchestral Identity
12. On Performance Practice
13. On Rehearsing
14. On Size
15. On Soloists
16. On Sound
17. On the Theater