My Orchestras and Other Adventures : : The Memoirs of Boyd Neel /

My Orchestras and Other Adventures : : The Memoirs of Boyd Neel / / ed. by J. David Finch.

Trained as a surgeon, renowned as a conductor, Boyd Neel led a life rich in innovation, achievement, and enthusiasm. He reminisces about that life in this volume, and the ebullience, wit, charm, and candour that characterized the man shine through its pages. Initially, Neel combined careers in medic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
HerausgeberIn:
Finch, J. David,
MitwirkendeR:
Pears, Peter,
TeilnehmendeR:
Pears, Peter.
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1985
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. The Neels
  • 2. The London Scene I
  • 3. Not on the Ocean Wave
  • 4. The London Scene II
  • 5. Into Medicine
  • 6. Bavarian Revelations
  • 7. London Practices
  • 8. The Boyd Neel Orchestra
  • 9. Pre-war Adventures
  • 10 Through the War
  • 11. International Overtures
  • 12. A Great Success!
  • 13. A Guide to Music
  • 14. Settling in Toronto
  • 15. Music at Stratford
  • 16. A Faculty of Music
  • 17. Taking My Time
  • 18. Coda
  • Discography 1934-79
  • Index

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