Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras

Music journalist Tom Service spent time with six great orchestras and their conductors to discover what conductors actually do. He watched rehearsals and performances with figures such as Simon Rattle, Valery Gergiev and Claudio Abbado, and interviewed players and conductors about how music is made together. Service shows how the relationship between a conductor and an orchestra creates something greater than the sum of its parts.

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Shane Parrish: “Have you ever wondered how music gets created? That emergent property that is so much more than the sum of its parts? In this book the author dives deep into the experiences of 6 famous orchestras and their conductors to provide incredible insight into how a piece of music is realized.”