My Road to Radio and The Vocal Scene: Memoir of an Opera Commentator
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (717 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786428236 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 251 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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His 36 years with that program established it as a revered fixture of New York's opera life. Born in Ujpest, Hungary, in 1919, George Jellinek began his musical career playing violin with gypsies in the family's garden restaurant. Army in 1942, obligated to bear arms against the country of his birth. He spent his adolescence doing much the same, honing his talent and enriching his own musical education with frequent trips to the Hungarian Royal Opera House. The epilogue documents the day on which Hungary's president bestowed upon Jellinek the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.. After rising to the post of musical director for radio station WQXR, he went on to become the producer and host of The Vocal Scene. How the exiled teenager survived World War II, worked his way up from a poor Hungarian immigrant in Cuba and became one of the most important and influential musical administrators in New York is an unconventional but truly American success story. The crisis of World War II soon invaded his life and, leaving behind his family and homeland, he fled west. The latter half of the book reveals how music helped Jellinek piece back together his broken life in America. Having been finally allowed to enter the United States, he was drafted into the U.S. This ironic turn of ev
George Jellinek is music director emeritus of Radio Station WQXR, owned by The New York Times. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
My Road To Radio A Must For Listners Anne Moss A charming memoir by a learned man of radio, especially a favorite on WQXR the classical station of the NY Times.
Jellinek wonderfully dealt with the lives of the great vocal artists who appeared on his program in rare recordings --Janet Malcolm, The New Yorker. "Gives us a glimpse into the life of this extraordinary man." --Renée Fleming, sopranoWhat a great bookJellinek gave us some of the greatest vocal listening on radio for so many years --Marilyn Horne, mezzosopranoOne of the great treasures of radio broadcasting