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Zusatztext Fans as well as musical theatre scholars will be forever indebted to Steven Suskin for this book. It's fascinating, entertaining and an essential addition to the literature of American musical theatre. Informationen zum Autor Steven Suskin is the author of numerous books on the Broadway musical, including Show Tunes, Second Act Trouble, and the Opening Night on Broadway series. He has written hundreds of columns and reviews for Playbill, Variety and other publications. Klappentext Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written about these unsung stars of the Broadway musical whose work is so vital to each show's success. The book examines the careers of Broadway's major orchestrators and follows the song as it travels from the composer's piano to the orchestra pit. Steven Suskin has meticulously tracked down thousands of original orchestral scores, piecing together enigmatic notes and notations with long-forgotten documents and current interviews with dozens of composers, producers, conductors and arrangers. The information is separated into three main parts: a biographical section which gives a sense of the life and world of twelve major theatre orchestrators, as well as incorporating briefer sections on another thirty arrangers and conductors; a lively discussion of the art of orchestration, written for musical theatre enthusiasts (including those who do not read music); a biographical section which gives a sense of the life and world of twelve major theatre orchestrators, as well as incorporating briefer sections on another thirty arrangers and conductors; and an impressive show-by-show listing of more than six hundred musicals, in many cases including a song-by-song listing of precisely who orchestrated what along with relevant comments from people involved with the productions. Stocked with intriguing facts and juicy anecdotes, many of which have never before appeared in print, The Sound of Broadway Music brings fascinating and often surprising new insight into the world of musical theatre. Zusammenfassung The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written about the virtually anonymous world of theatrical orchestrators and arrangers. Stocked with intriguing facts and juicy anecdotes, most of which have part never before appeared in print, The Sound of Broadway Music brings fascinating and sometimes surprising new insight into the world of musical theatre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Verse: On Orchestrators and Orchestration Refrain: Men of Notes (And a Few Women, Too) I: The Dreyfus System II: Twelve Major Orchestrators III: Ghosts and Other Helpers IV: Valued Members of the Music Department V: Comparative Orchestrators Bridge: The Art of Orchestration VI: From Song to Stage VII: The Arrangement VIII: Overture IX: Meet the Colors X: And Then Comes the Orchestrator XI: The Orchestration XII: Putting it Together XIII: "Sweeney in the Pit with Steve" Final Refrain: What's the Score? XIV: About the Listings XV: The Listings XVI: Additional Shows by Other Orchestrators Coda Chronology Acknowledgements Sources and Bibliography Index ...
