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  • CENTRAL: Local History
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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra : grace, grit, and glory

Call Number

  • H 784.2 H3148 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Detroit, Michigan : Painted Turtle, an imprint of Wayne State University Press, [2016]

Physical Description

xiv, 301 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Contents

  • An emerging city and its music, 1701-1887
  • The founding and the founders, 1887-1910 : Rudolph Speil, Fritz and Hugo Kalsow, and the first DSO
  • A glorious rebirth, 1914-36 : Weston Gales, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Orchestra Hall, and the first "golden age"
  • A city and aan orchestra struggle, 1936-42 : Victor Kolar, Franco Ghione, depression, and war
  • The Reichhold era, 1943-1949 : a one-man band
  • Another rebirth, 1952-63 : The "Detriot plan," Paul Paray, and a new golden age
  • Changing times, 1963-1976 : Sixten Ehrling and the changing fortunes of a city and its orchestra
  • An orchestra and a city in flux, 1977-90 : Antal Dorati, Günther Herbig, and a city in decline
  • The orchestra and the city rebound, 1990-2005: Neeme Järvi and another golden age
  • Musical artistry in an era of uncertainty, 2005-present : Leonard Slatkin and the future on the modern symphony orchestra
  • Appendix: Detroit Symphony Orchestra personnel, 1906-2015.

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Paul Ganson

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