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Maestro: Encounters with Conductors of Today
by Helena Matheopoulos
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 006015103X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060151034
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
NZ$25.62NZ$17.94
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About This Item
New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1983 Harper and Row, New York. 1983. Hardcover. Stated First US Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to tail; slight dust soiling to textblock top. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($24.95); light bumping to head and tail; sunbleaching to spine. Black cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine; conductor debossed on front board. Red endpapers. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 536 pp 8vo. The conductor is the central and dominant figure in the concert hall and opera house leading the author explore the elusive art of conducting. This book covers her researching and interviewing 23 major orchestral leaders. With discussions with singers and orchestra members, she has obtained a rounded picture of each conductor's podium technique, musical taste, place and style of training, rehearsal technique, and life-style away from the concert hall. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014576
- Title
- Maestro: Encounters with Conductors of Today
- Author
- Helena Matheopoulos
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 006015103X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060151034
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- operas, concerts, concert halls, opera theaters, conductors, music conductors, orchestra conductors, opera conductors, Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, Andre Previn,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Biographies;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Gilt
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- Brodart
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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