Menuhin - A Life

Informationen zum Autor Humphrey Burton is best known as the original presenter of the BBC's Young Musician series. In a long career he has been involved in many other aspects of musical life, directing and hosting televised operas and concerts, running busy creative departments in ITV and BBC, working in many of the world's leading musical venues, lecturing on cruises, and broadcasting with Radio 3 and Classic FM, for whom his 20 part series chronicling Yehudi Menuhin's achievements will be repeated in 2016. Klappentext Since 2000, when this biography was first published, Menuhin's name has not faded from public attention, as often happens in the decades after the death of a popular performing artist.To mark the centenary of Yehudi Menuhin, the world-renowned musician and humanist, this acclaimed biography is re-published with a new introduction by the author Zusammenfassung Since 2000, when this biography was first published, Menuhin's name has not faded from public attention, as often happens in the decades after the death of a popular performing artist.

Product details

• Authors: Humphrey Burton, Sir Humphrey Burton, Humphrey Burton CBE
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9780571325320
• ISBN: 978-0-571-32532-0
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 43 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biographien (div.), Menuhin, Yehudi, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Musicians, singers, bands & groups, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral & formal music