A charming collection told by a master storyteller of the unusual, absurd, and amusing from the annals of classical music. Illustrated. Scathing reviews, whimsical stories, and diverting games fill the pages of this delightful collection. These are the best tales Nicolas Slonimsky came across in the years he spent compiling and writing "Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians and Music Since 1900." Divided into sections such as "Not to Be Found in Authorized Biographies, " "This Modern Stuff, " "Red, White, and Blue ...
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A charming collection told by a master storyteller of the unusual, absurd, and amusing from the annals of classical music. Illustrated. Scathing reviews, whimsical stories, and diverting games fill the pages of this delightful collection. These are the best tales Nicolas Slonimsky came across in the years he spent compiling and writing "Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians and Music Since 1900." Divided into sections such as "Not to Be Found in Authorized Biographies, " "This Modern Stuff, " "Red, White, and Blue Animals, " and "Verse and Worse, " "Anecdotes" reveals the charming and often hilarious side of classical music. Accounts range from Wagner's delay in delivering "Meistersinger" because his pet dog attacked him, through the disruption of an open-air opera when the featured tenor swallowed an insect, to the legal battle between a trained seal and the ASCAP lawyers who would not allow it to perform on the radio.
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