Classical Music Expect the Unexpected

A passionate appeal from an acclaimed artist for the relevance of classical music in today's torn world

Cover -- CLASSICAL MUSIC: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- CHAPTER ONE ON CATTLE BREEDERS AND TRUMPETS -- A Fishing Village Filled with Sound -- Mother's Determination -- The Miracle of Morro Bay -- Music - School - Music -- On Teachers and Structure -- The Golden Age of Classical Music -- My Dream -- Bach - Through the Heart to the Head -- CHAPTER TWO DECLARATION OF BANKRUPTCY IN PHILADELPHIA -- Concert in a Ghost Town -- Death in Installments -- Greetings from Lehman Brothers -- A Wasting Disease in Wonderland -- Gray, and Even Grayer -- Changing Values, Changing World -- Narrow Education -- Wishful Thinking, Wished-for People -- Schoenberg - Collapse and New Beginning -- CHAPTER THREE CLASSICAL MUSIC FOR A TIME OF CRISIS? -- Outrage Is the Beginning of All Things -- Imminent Disappearance -- Not Just for Elites -- The Search for Meaning -- Man's Foe -- On the Power of Aesthetic Experiences -- A Matter of Social Survival -- What's Your Mind Made Of? -- The Promises of Music -- Beethoven - Superstar -- CHAPTER FOUR HEROES ON ICE - AND NO COMPROMISES -- Strange Sounds for Young Folk -- An Orchestra without a Conductor -- Anything for the Turnaround -- Strauss, or The Path to a Program Idea -- Outside the Door -- Nothing Lasts Forever -- Frank Zappa, or The Serious Side of the Artist -- Messiaen - A Glimpse into the Beyond -- CHAPTER FIVE NOTHING BUT MUSIC IN ONE'S HEAD -- Diabolus in Musica -- Music Can Engender More than Words -- Have a Good Cry! -- Sweet Expectations -- Heard a Thousand Times -- Nothing Comes for Free -- Classical Music or Pop? -- A Matter of Perspective -- Bruckner - Dissolution of Boundaries -- CHAPTER SIX THE UNANSWERED QUESTION -- Helmut Schmidt: In No Humor for Pessimism -- William Friedkin: A Trip with Beethoven -- Julie Payette: Good Morning, Houston

Dirk Nowitzki: Basketball Is Jazz -- Yann Martel: Perfect Silence -- Bernstein and Ives - Whither America? -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LITERATURE