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An intimate, moving, dramatic story about the musicians in a great orchestra who make music come alive in performance and recording. The musicians here are members of the fabled Boston Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Seiji Ozawa, during a season highlighted by Mahler’s Second Symphony, The Resurrection.

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Demystifying and humanizing the august Boston Symphony Orchestra-and expertly discussing, as the book's leitmotif, the intricacies of Mahler Two. . . .Vigeland is at his best in conveying the emotive power of music. -Publishers Weekly An absolutely fascinating book dealing with tension-artistic, musical, and personal tension . . . Music is the background, but the theme is really a conflict of two people with completely different approaches to art-and to life. -Studs Terkel I have read thousands of books about music, but never anything quite like this . . . Vigeland writes with knowledge and skill, and his decision to keep most of the text in the present tense adds to the forward-pushing tautness of the narrative. -Ned Rorem A wise, compassionate, and fascinating look at an orchestra's inner life. . . . A work of universal interest. -Classical magazine

Demystifying and humanizing the august Boston Symphony Orchestra and expertly discussing, as the book s leitmotif, the intricacies of Mahler Two....Vigeland is at his best in conveying the emotive power of music. Publishers Weekly An absolutely fascinating book dealing with tension artistic, musical, and personal tension... Music is the background, but the theme is really a conflict of two people with completely different approaches to art and to life. Studs Terkel I have read thousands of books about music, but never anything quite like this... Vigeland writes with knowledge and skill, and his decision to keep most of the text in the present tense adds to the forward-pushing tautness of the narrative. Ned Rorem A wise, compassionate, and fascinating look at an orchestra s inner life.... A work of universal interest. Classical magazine

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Among Carl Vigeland’s other books are The Breathless Present: A Memoir in Four Movements, The Mostly Mozart Guide to Mozart, Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life (with Wynton Marsalis), and The Great Romance. Vigeland has also written for a wide variety of magazines, including The Atlantic, DoubleTake, Downbeat, TheNew York Times Magazine, Playboy, and Sports Illustrated. A graduate of Harvard, Vigeland for many years taught writing at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he lives.  

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