Music for a City

(Hardback)

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In Music for a City, Music for the World, Larry Rothe shares how the San Francisco Bay Area s love of music, rooted in the Gold Rush, gave birth to a Grammy-winning and internationally acclaimed orchestra. Released in time for the San Francisco Symphony s celebration of its 100th anniversary, this definitive history replete with hundreds of archival photos and images gives readers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into one of the world s foremost orchestras and, in so doing, illuminates the cultural life of a city.

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Music for a City is definitely a book for dipping into. We can excuse the sheer heft and size of the edition. Commuters may not be able to schlep it on BART, but it makes for a great read at home on a cold winter's night, and as a reference source, it is invaluable. The big book is also highly entertaining. There is something endearing evident on every glossy page. It seems Rothe is as much in love with the city and the San Francisco Symphony as the rest of us.
--The Bay Area Reporter

Author Bio

Larry Rothe is coauthor of FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC published by Oxford University Press, and coeditor of AMERICAN MAVERICKS: MUSICAL VISIONARIES, PIONEERS, ICONOCLASTS, published by the University of California Press. For many years he has been editor of the SFS's program book, and he has contributed articles to the program books of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic, and to the SF Opera magazine. A native of Chicago, he lives in Berkeley.