Classical music : expect the unexpected /

"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 Expect the unexpected, the famous classical composer and conductor tells...

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Uniform title:Erwarten Sie Wunder!
Authors / Creators: Nagano, Kent, 1951- (Author), Kloepfer, Inge, 1964- (Author)
Other Authors / Creators:Kloepfer, Inge, 1964- author.
Oeser, Hans-Christian, translator.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
German
Imprint: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; CLASSICAL MUSIC: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PROLOGUE; CHAPTER ONE ON CATTLE BREEDERS AND TRUMPETS; A Fishing Village Filled with Sound; Mother's Determination; The Miracle of Morro Bay; Music
  • School
  • Music; On Teachers and Structure; The Golden Age of Classical Music; My Dream; Bach
  • Through the Heart to the Head; CHAPTER TWO DECLARATION OF BANKRUPTCY IN PHILADELPHIA; Concert in a Ghost Town; Death in Installments; Greetings from Lehman Brothers; A Wasting Disease in Wonderland; Gray, and Even Grayer; Changing Values, Changing World; Narrow Education
  • Wishful Thinking, Wished-for PeopleSchoenberg
  • Collapse and New Beginning; CHAPTER THREE CLASSICAL MUSIC FOR A TIME OF CRISIS?; Outrage Is the Beginning of All Things; Imminent Disappearance; Not Just for Elites; The Search for Meaning; Man's Foe; On the Power of Aesthetic Experiences; A Matter of Social Survival; What's Your Mind Made Of?; The Promises of Music; Beethoven
  • Superstar; CHAPTER FOUR HEROES ON ICE
  • AND NO COMPROMISES; Strange Sounds for Young Folk; An Orchestra without a Conductor; Anything for the Turnaround; Strauss, or The Path to a Program Idea; Outside the Door
  • Nothing Lasts ForeverFrank Zappa, or The Serious Side of the Artist; Messiaen
  • A Glimpse into the Beyond; CHAPTER FIVE NOTHING BUT MUSIC IN ONE'S HEAD; Diabolus in Musica; Music Can Engender More than Words; Have a Good Cry!; Sweet Expectations; Heard a Thousand Times; Nothing Comes for Free; Classical Music or Pop?; A Matter of Perspective; Bruckner
  • Dissolution of Boundaries; CHAPTER SIX THE UNANSWERED QUESTION; Helmut Schmidt: In No Humor for Pessimism; William Friedkin: A Trip with Beethoven; Julie Payette: Good Morning, Houston; Dirk Nowitzki: Basketball Is Jazz
  • Yann Martel: Perfect SilenceBernstein and Ives
  • Whither America?; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LITERATURE