Great Jews in Music

Type

Book

Authors

Darrell Lyman

ISBN 10

082460315X

ISBN 13

9780824603151

Tags

Reference, Classical, Music

Description

An invaluable up-to-date guide to Jewish involvement in the world of music. Includes over one hundred major biographies and hundreds of thumbnail sketches that focus on the careers and personal lives of the selected artists. Through these biographies, which include listings of the major works of each subject, we begin to see the impact that Jews as a group have had on the music world at large. Features such diverse talents as Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Itzhak Perlman, Richard Rodgers, and Barbra Streisand. With black-and-white photographs. - from Amzon

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