Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music: A Biographical and Discographical Sourcebook

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Worldwide in scope and covering the second half of the 20th century, this work provides biographies and discographies of some 500 conductors and composers in many aspects of light and popular orchestral music, including film, show, theatre, and mood music. It documents the lives and recordings of such artists as Kostelanetz, Faith, Gould, as well as the orchestral recordings of such great popular composers as Gershwin, Kern, Porter, Rodgers, Berlin and Coward in an encyclopaedic fashion. Almost 5000 records and CDs are listed. The book will be of interest to scholars, students, disc jockeys, record and CD collectors, film music buffs, and mood and production music enthusiasts.

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.,."this title will be a useful addition to larger music collections due to its unique focus."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
...this title will be a useful addition to larger music collections due to its unique focus.-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
[T]he volume is concise and easily used. It will be of good use to academic libraries supporting music programs, and anyone interested in the history of popular music.-RUSQ
This book adds strength to the already bountiful corpus of music reference works that are devoted to or include composer and conductor biographies. Furthermore, these are composers who, thanks to their popularity, library users are highly likely to be interested in.-Rettig on Reference
"The volume is concise and easily used. It will be of good use to academic libraries supporting music programs, and anyone interested in the history of popular music."-RUSQ
..."this title will be a useful addition to larger music collections due to its unique focus."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
"[T]he volume is concise and easily used. It will be of good use to academic libraries supporting music programs, and anyone interested in the history of popular music."-RUSQ
"This book adds strength to the already bountiful corpus of music reference works that are devoted to or include composer and conductor biographies. Furthermore, these are composers who, thanks to their popularity, library users are highly likely to be interested in."-Rettig on Reference

Author Bio

REUBEN MUSIKER is Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was Professor of Librarianship and Bibliography and University Librarian. He is an inveterate collector of popular orchestral music and has contributed many articles on the subject to music journals. NAOMI MUSIKER is a freelance book indexer of some seventy-five books by leading South African publishers. She has assisted her husband in the compilation and indexing of this book.