Settling the Score

by Michael Graubart Levin

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671667610
• ISBN13: 9780671667610
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Simplistic, but hilarious

A slightly non-musician outlook on musicians, but the book's incredibly funny to anyone who's ever worked in a musical capacity nonetheless. It's rather too bad that it's been out of print for so long.The plot's sort of complicated, for all that takes place over two days. Donald, the ex-child-prodigy-turned-choral-conductor, apparently discovered a lost Mozart Mass. His track record for conducting orchestras is extremely poor, so they ask someone else to conduct the premiere: his ex-best friend from conservatory, who also happens to be married to Donald's ex-fiancee. Add to this mix the ex-best friend's ex-fiancee, a mint-green tuxedo, security problems, and Leonard Bernstein, and you get some interesting reading.The stereotypes about musicians are fairly . . . well, fairly stereotypical, but the author contrives to explain everything that it makes sense. Honestly, most of the stereotypes are those that non-musicians are somewhat familiar with: the soprano who's trying to sleep her way to the top, the fruity choir director . . . just the usual. It's worth it for the first chapter of the book (a choral rehearsal) alone.