Shoot the Conductor: Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Shoot the Conductor: Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy
  • Series Title Mayborn literary nonfiction series
  • Added Title Number 7 in the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series

Creator

  • Author: Brusilow, Anshel
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: After a long and distinguished career in music, ANSHEL BRUSILOW retired from conducting the Richardson Symphony and lives in Dallas.
  • Author: Underdahl, Robin
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: ROBIN UNDERDAHL holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University and writes fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. She also lives in Dallas.

Publisher

  • Name: University of North Texas Press
    Place of Publication: Denton, Texas
    Additional Info: Web: http://untpress.unt.edu/

Date

  • Creation: 2015-07

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Anshel Brusilow was born in 1928 and raised in Philadelphia by musical Russian Jewish parents in a neighborhood where practicing your instrument was as normal as hanging out the laundry. By the time he was sixteen, he was appearing as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also met Pierre Monteux at sixteen, when Monteux accepted him into his summer conducting school. Under George Szell, Brusilow was associate concertmaster at the Cleveland Orchestra until Ormandy snatched him away to make him concertmaster in Philadelphia, where he remained from 1959 to 1966. Ormandy and Brusilow had a father-son relationship, but Brusilow could not resist conducting, to Ormandy's great displeasure. By the time he was forty, Brusilow had sold his violin and formed his own chamber orchestra in Philadelphia with more than a hundred performances per year. For three years he was conductor of the Dallas Symphony, until he went on to shape the orchestral programs at Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas. Brusilow played with or conducted many top-tier classical musicians, and he has opinions about each and every one. He also made many recordings. Co-written with Robin Underdahl, his memoir is a fascinating and unique view of American classical music during an important era, as well as an inspiring story of a working-class immigrant child making good in a tough arena.
  • Physical Description: ix, 300 p. : ill.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Conductors (Music) -- United States -- Biography.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Concertmasters -- United States -- Biography.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Music teachers -- United States -- Biography.
  • Named Person: Brusilow, Anshel
  • Named Person: Monteux, Pierre, 1875-1964
  • Named Person: Szell, George, 1897-1970
  • Named Person: Ormandy, Eugene, 1899-1985

Coverage

  • Place Name: Vietnam
  • Place Name: United States - Texas

Collection

  • Name: University of North Texas Press
    Code: UNTP

Institution

  • Name: UNT Press
    Code: UNTP

Rights

  • Rights Access: unt
  • Rights Holder: Vick, Frances B.
  • Rights License: copyright
  • Rights Statement: All rights reserved.

Resource Type

  • Book

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • OCLC: 905801938
  • ISBN: 9781574416138
  • ISBN: 1574416138
  • Library of Congress Control Number: 2015011488
  • Call Number: ML422.B885 A3 2015
  • Series Number: 7
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc862917
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