A Young Person's Guide to Classical Music

A Young Person's Guide to Classical Music - Paperback

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A Young Person's Guide to Classical Music

A Young Person's Guide to Classical Music - Paperback

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Book Overview

A Young Person's Guide to Classical Music is a fast-paced, highly readable basic primer for those young persons interested in classical music or who want to develop an interest in it. It's a layperson's guide to standard musical terms, instruments, selected composers, influential works, the styles, form, and structure common to classical music. It presents a capsulized history of the different periods in classical music's evolution.

It includes many important compositions from different periods of the music's evolution as recommended listening. There are factoids about the best-known composers, the instruments, and their works.



Classical musical audiences are getting older, and older. If they are not replaced by a new crop of younger listeners that means more empty seats, and even less revenue. At the same time, costs to run an orchestra, pay staff and management, and the musicians, aren't going down. Eventually, there's a break point. The result could be staff cutbacks, fewer concerts, and in some cases orchestras folding completely.

ISBN9781087950617
Author Earl Ofari Hutchinson
PublisherMiddle Passage Press
GenreYoung adult
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2022
LanguageENG- English
Pages166
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Earl Ofari Hutchinson has an MA in Humanities from California State University, Dominguez Hills that included the Humanities course series on the advanced study of music, focusing on concepts of meaning and form in music. He is a sustaining member of the American Musicological Society. He has for a decade programed, featured and promoted classical music on the KPFK-Pacifica Radio Network. From1995 to 2015, he attended nearly 500 concerts by nearly every nationally and internationally known major orchestra, and that featured many of the top virtuoso performers, and attended many major festivals including the Aspen, Bach Carmel, and the Ojai Festival. He has interviewed many of the leading classical conductors, composers, and performers, He has written about classical musical developments in his columns. He moderated the prestigious panel of classical artists and musicologists on the works of Dimitri Shostakovich. He has attended and participated in numerous concert lectures and preconcert lectures. He completed the Comprehensive Music Study Series based on The History of Western Music at West Los Angeles College and studied music theory and history at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music.

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