5 + portes de 1.50 eur (livro de 300 gramas, .90 envio editorial + .60 envelope almofadado)

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Bernard Shore – The Orchestra Speaks - Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1943, 218 páginas.

Primeira edição do livro, nesta mesma editora, data de 1938.

Esta é 10ª reimpressão, de Maio de 1943

Hardcover

Sobrecapa/hardcover com os óbvios sinais de uso que pode ver nas fotos, os piores sendo as falhas/perdas de papel no topo da lombada, foto 2, e o rasgão no topo da contracapa, junto à lombada, foto 3.

O livro em si, de um tecido azul marinho, está impecável, muito bem conservado.

Quanto ao miolo, igualmente em muito bom estado, páginas sem notas, sublinhados ou assinaturas de posse.

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Bernard Shore (17 March 1896 – 2 April 1985) was an English viola player and author.

Shore studied at the Royal College of Music from 1912, with Sir Walter Alcock (organ) and Thomas Dunhill (composition), but his time there was interrupted by the war.

Returning after 1918 with an injured right hand - he had lost two fingers - Shore focused on viola playing rather than the organ, becoming a pupil of Arthur Bent, and subsequently Lionel Tertis. He also studied horn with Adolf Borsdorf.

In 1937 Shore wrote a book, The Orchestra Speaks, which arose out of his experience of orchestral playing.

It discusses the inner workings of an orchestra and also includes a collection of character sketches of conductors of the time, including Sir Thomas Beecham, Adrian Boult, Malcolm Sargent, Henry Wood, Eugene Goossens, Hamilton Harty, Sergei Koussevitsky, Arturo Toscanini, etc.

In 1947 he wrote a second book, Sixteen Symphonies, discussing symphonies from Haydn to Walton.

The Sons of Light, a cantata for chorus and orchestra (1950) by Vaughan Williams, was commissioned by the Schools Music Association where Shore was an inspector there. The work is dedicated to him.