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April 6, 2021
Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst s 2020 book,
From Silence: Finding Calm in a Dissonant World, will be published for the first time in the English language by Clearview Books this May.
From Silence is a powerful and thought-provoking book from one of the world s most thoughtful orchestral conductors.
From Silence is issued by Macmillan Distribution, and will be available to purchase for $30/£25; preorders are available now at the Cleveland Orchestra Store online at www.clevelandorchestra.com/store. To hear Welser-Möst speak about From Silence watch this video: youtu.be/f0JOr4ugwm8.
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From Silence, Welser-Möst takes readers on a journey from his years as a promising young violinist in Austria, through the devastating car crash that would ultimately set him firmly on the path towards conducting, and on to a decades-long career that has seen him achieve international success. More than a straightforward memoir,
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Surreal fantasy came off best this year, before and after the fall.
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Alice s Adventures Under Ground in a tirelessly resourceful production by director/designer Antony McDonald. Another brief flourish to a much smaller Royal Opera House audience in October reached many more spectators online with the realisation of the house s new Director of Opera Oliver Mears idea for staging song cycles/cantatas in the dazzling