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A Portrait in Four Movements

The Chicago Symphony under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti

By: Andrew Patner

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A Portrait in Four Movements

The Chicago Symphony under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti

By: Andrew Patner

“Playing in an orchestra in an intelligent way is the best school for democracy.”—Daniel Barenboim The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been led by a storied group of conductors. And from 1994 to 2015, through the best work of Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, and Riccardo Muti, Andrew Patner was right there. As a classical music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and WFMT radio, Patner was able to trace the arc of the CSO’s changing repertories, all while cultivating a deep rapport with its four principal conductors. This book assembles Patner’s reviews of the concerts given by the CSO during this time, as well as transcripts of his remarkable radio interviews with these colossal figures. These pages hold tidbits for the curious, such as Patner’s “driving survey” that playfully ranks the Maestri he knew on a scale of “total comfort” to “fright level five,” and the observation that Muti appears to be a southpaw on the baseball field. Moving easily between registers, they also open revealing windows onto the sometimes difficult pasts that brought these conductors to music in the first place, including Boulez’s and Haitink’s heartbreaking experiences of Nazi occupation in their native countries as children. Throughout, these reviews and interviews are threaded together with insights about the power of music and the techniques behind it—from the conductors’ varied approaches to research, preparing scores, and interacting with other musicians, to how the sound and personality of the orchestra evolved over time, to the ways that we can all learn to listen better and hear more in the music we love. Featuring a foreword by fellow critic Alex Ross on the ethos and humor that informed Patner’s writing, as well as an introduction and extensive historical commentary by musicologist Douglas W. Shadle, this book offers a rich portrait of the musical life of Chicago through the eyes and ears of one of its most beloved critics.

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022660991X

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The Black Tax

150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

By: Andrew W. Kahrl

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The Black Tax

150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

By: Andrew W. Kahrl

Andrew Kahrl's enraging national assessment of legal and financial dispossession proves that African Americans property owners have long been beset by racist practices, invisible obstacles, and hidden traps that leave them vulnerable to economic predation. Kahrl focuses specially on how property taxes have been used to swindle African Americans out of their land, with the cooperation of public officials and courts. These racist regimes fund and reinforce inequity, with blacks paying more in taxes than whites as they lose tremendous inheritable wealth to whites. There is something more fundamental than the "forty acres" of settlement lore: the taxes on them"--

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452

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University of Chicago Press

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022673059X

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9780226730592

Schiaparelli & Prada

Impossible Conversations

By: Andrew Bolton,Harold Koda

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Schiaparelli & Prada

Impossible Conversations

By: Andrew Bolton,Harold Koda

The Met's Spring 2012 Costume Institute exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, explores the striking affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, two Italian designers from different eras. Inspired by Miguel Covarrubias's "Impossible Interviews" for Vanity Fair in the 1930s, the exhibition features orchestrated conversations between these iconic women to suggest new readings of their most innovative work. Iconic ensembles will be presented with videos of simulated conversations between Schiaparelli and Prada directed by Baz Luhrmann, focusing on how both women explore similar themes in their work through very different approaches."--MMA website.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588394549

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I.F. Stone

A Portrait

By: Andrew Patner

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I.F. Stone

A Portrait

By: Andrew Patner

For many Americans, I.F. Stone has been the conscience of investigative journalism, and the most perceptive political analyst of our time. Patner gives a glimpse of this remarkable personality including "his sense of humor and outrage, and the depth of his optimism in a world that seems to others increasingly dark".

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A Portrait in 4 Movements

The Chicago Symphony under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti

By: Andrew Patner

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The Chicago Symphony under Barenboim, Boulez, Haitink, and Muti

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By: Andrew Patner

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