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Title: Music in the Mountains The First Fifty Years...

Publisher: Johnson Books

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.

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Berger, a writer and pianist, charts the growth of the Aspen Music Festival from a tent in a meadow and rented teaching space to permanent performing venues and school facilities. Based on interviews with musicians, festival personnel, and members of the audiences, his account features the internationally famous musicians as well as students and enthusiasts who transformed this mining town into a world stage for a major summer musical event. Contains a section of b&w photographs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Bruce Berger came to Aspen in the fifties and has been a friend and devotee of the Festival ever since. He is the author of The Telling Distance, Notes of a Half-Aspenite, A Dazzle of Hummingbirds, Hangin' On, There Was a River, Almost an Island, and Facing the Music. He now divides his time between Aspen and Baja California.

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