Beating Time: A Musician's Memoir **SIGNED**
Language: English
Published by Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1995
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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203pp., xviii. '2' in number line. Foreword by John Williams. 17 pages of black and white photo-illustrations between pp. 100-101; Index, pp. 193-203. Black cloth with brilliant gilt lettering on spine; peach endpapers. Glossy black dustwrapper not price-clipped (no price) with author name lettering in white-edged peach across top front cover, above photo-illustration of author, baton in hand, conducting or posing; title lettering in peach across bottom front cover, below photo-illustration of author. Flawless artifact, with odd, thin 1" x 1/16" meniscus chip at top front cover edge at 1/2" to left of top right corner, else As New: describes worse than it is, but there you have it : Now in Brodart mylar which graciously forgives peccadilloes. Unread, evidently opened only for inscription at top of peach ffep to named recipient, Movie and television stuntman(?), Les Crawford: "To Les Crawford, with all good / wishes-- (cursive) Harry Ellis Dickson".
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- Title
- Beating Time: A Musician's Memoir **SIGNED**
- Author
- Dickson, Harry Ellis (1908-2003)
- Publisher
- Northeastern University Press, Boston
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Inscribed and Signed by Author
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1555532292
- ISBN 13
- 9781555532291
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
In this charming memoir, Dickson recollects his long and illustrious life and career. With humor and warmth, he shares reminiscences and anecdotes about his family and friends, colleagues, travels, and the Boston Symphony. An entertaining raconteur, Dickson relates his experiences, some amusing, some serious, in working with such renowned conductors and performers as Danny Kaye, Arthur Fiedler, Serge Koussevitzky, Seiji Ozawa, John Williams, and Igor Stravinsky. The memoir also includes Dickson's touching reflections on his wife, his daughters, and the failed presidential campaign of his son-in-law Michael Dukakis.
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