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1. 
   Keith

   There’s a pretty good biography of Monteux by one of his students, John Canarina available as well. I would love to see a biography of conductor-composer Jean Martinon, who I think is one of the great French conductors. I think that book would be fascinating. He apparently escaped from a Nazi prison camp and had a pretty successful career in France and England until he came to Chicago and ran into the critics Claudia Cassidy and Roger Dettmer. He also had a falling out with oboist Ray Still as well. But I remember an interview with Adolph “Bud” Herseth I had back in 2005 with him telling me Martinon’s interpretation of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring was the greatest he’d ever heard. Martinon’s Chicago Symphony recordings and his collection of recordings of Debussy, Ravel and Saint Saens with the French National Radio Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris are all pretty sensational

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   March 15, 2019 10:27 am
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     tmangan

     Thanks, Keith. Yes, I’ve read Canarina’s book, which is indeed interesting, but not as well done as the first Monteux bio imo. I’d read that Martinon bio, too, in a second. I really admire his work.

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     March 15, 2019 1:16 pm
2. 
   Paul Bodine

   I’ve only read the Klemperer. “I found Hindemith very sympathetic personally. Someone said to him, ‘Why doesn’t Klemperer perform more of your music?’ He answered, ‘Well, he doesn’t like it all. That’s not a crime.'”

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   March 15, 2019 4:02 pm
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   Paul Bodine

   Martinon’s ‘Nobilissima Visione’ is also the best of this work IMO …

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   March 15, 2019 4:06 pm

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