TY - BOOK AU - Mauceri,John TI - For the love of music: a conductor's guide to the art of listening SN - 9780525520658 AV - MT90 .M287 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Music appreciation N1 - Includes index; Why music? --; The heart of the matter --; Harnessing (human) nature --; Time: real and imaginary --; Invisible structures --; Pay attention! --; The first time: weaving the web of continuity --; The concert experience --; Your playlist, your life N2 - 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 has to offer. He leads us to an understanding of what we hear when we listen to classical music: how it expresses the deepest recesses of human feeling and emotion; how each piece bears the traces of its history; how the concert experience allows us to discover music anew. Unpretentious, graceful, instructive, this is a book for the aficionado, the novice, and anyone looking to have the love of music fired within them ER -