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Article Excerpt
America's Concertmasters. By Anne Mischakoff Heiles. (Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music, No. 51.) Sterling Heights, Michigan: Harmonie Park Press, 2007. [xvii, 564 p. ISBN-10: 0899901395; ISBN-13: 9780899901398. $50.] Illustrations, appendices, bibliographical references, index.
Anne Mischakoff Heiles has written a book exploring the training, traits, desires, and often interesting anecdotes of over 180 concertmasters and a dozen orchestras, from Boston to Toronoto. Being the daughter of concertmaster Mischa Mischakoff has given Heiles a unique perspective and obvious passion for this subject, which shows in the extensive research, through dozens of interviews, contained in this work.
After a brief prologue explaining the concertinaster selection and interview process, and an excellent introduction of how the concermaster role evolved, Heiles takes us on a wonderful journey exploring the lives of concertmasters from ten of the major performing orchestras in North America: Boston. Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minnesota, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Toronto. She also includes two chapters on the concertmasters of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra for insights into the leaders of an opera orchestra and summer orchestra, respectively.
Among the issues Heiles seeks to probe are the traits that distinguish concertmasters from section players and soloists, the musical training concertmasters receive, how power is shared between conductor and concertmaster, how authority develops between concertmaster and section players, the range of musical interests today's concertmasters have and whether their musical activities differ from their predecessors, and...
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