My road to radio and The vocal scene : memoir of an opera commentator / George Jellinek.
"George Jellinek began his musical career playing his grandfather's violin. The exiled teenager survived World War II, worked his way up from a penniless Hungarian immigrant in Cuba and became one of the most important and influential musical administrators in New York. He became the producer and vo...
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| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland,
[2007], ©2007.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Prologue
- Childhood
- School years
- Hastened maturity
- The Royal Hungarian Opera House
- Farewell to Europe
- At sea
- Havana (1939-1941)
- First year in the USA
- The U.S. Army-stateside
- Camp Ritchie and Fort Benning : two important landmarks
- England, France-and some opera
- The end of the Third Reich
- Salzburg, and my moment in history
- Back to Hungary
- Homecoming
- Civilian life and musical beginnings
- Copyrights, country music-and Callas
- Music in the background
- Early radio days
- Beginnings of The vocal scene
- The workaholic years
- Matters of the heart
- A pseudo-retirement
- Years of travel
- Writing a book-slowly
- Memorable Vocal scene moments
- Closing the cycle.