For the Love of Music: A Conductor’s Guide to the Art of Listening Audiobook (Free)

With a lifetime of encounter, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why must i pay attention to classical music? How do i take full advantage of the listening knowledge?

A protégé of Leonard Bernstein–his colleague for eighteen years–and an eminent conductor who has toured and recorded all over the world, John Mauceri helps us to reap the joys and pleasures classical music provides. Quickly, about For the Like of Music: A Conductor’s Guideline to the Artwork of Hearing we learn the way a musical tradition born in historic Greece, embraced by the Roman Empire, and eventually nurtured by influences from throughout the world, gave shape to the traditional music that had become embraced by civilizations from Japan to Bolivia. After that Mauceri examines the music itself, helping us understand what it is we hear whenever we listen to traditional music: how, by some sort of sonic metaphor, it expresses the deepest recesses of human feeling and feelings; how each piece bears the traces of its background; the way the concert experience–a exclusive one every single time–allows us to find music anew. Unpretentious, elegant, instructive, that is a publication for the aficionado, the novice, and anyone seeking to have the like of music terminated within them.