Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras, Tom Service autofiction A novel from the author

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Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras, Tom Service autofiction A novel from the authorHow are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? The mute choreography of great conductors has fascinated and frustrated musicians and music lovers for centuries, from Toscanini to Karajan, from Carlos Kleiber to Gustavo Dudamel. Orchestras can be inspired to the heights of musical and expressive possibility by their maestros, or flabbergasted that someone who doesn't even