| Maverick Maestro Contributor(s): Peress, Maurice (Author) |
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ISBN: 1612058744 ISBN-13: 9781612058740 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Music - Music | Individual Composer & Musician - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2014042162 |
| Series: Nine Lives Musical |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.6" W x 8.7" (0.90 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Maurice Peress leads an unusual American musical life. Born to a Baghdadian father and Polish mother, his first music was Arabic and Yiddish songs. He grew up in New York's Washington Heights, became a busy dance band and symphonic trumpeter, and was drafted towards the end of the Korean conflict, landing him in a newly integrated Negro Regimental Band. In this memoir, he shares what he learned from an enormous range of American works and musicians. In his first book, Peress explored America's music and its African American roots. A musical mission emerges, a lifelong commitment to "give concerts that reconstruct delicious mixed marriages of music, black and white, Jazz and classical, folk and concert, Native American and European; works that bring people together, that urge us to love one another." |
