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Nadine - The Story of an American Orchestra Conductor
By Paulina K. Dennis
Publisher: iUniverse
Nadine Douglas Lapisan, folk singer, composer, civil rights activist and a daughter of the union movement is about to leave New York and the orchestra of a renowned American conductor to join a major orchestra and its world-famous music director, Janar von Berkhardt and the Bavarian State Philharmonic, in Munich, Germany. The year is 1966. This is her story.
The War and Peace of the music business.
--Thomas Lee Winston, singer/actor/dramaturg
“Nadine” is the first of a trilogy called “The Musicians,” about music and the twentieth century; while telling a richly detailed story of American life and music during the Second World War and the years afterward, up to the 60s, it is an inquiry into what it means to be a musician or any artist in a world and an era that devalues human life itself, to say nothing of the aspirations of the soul as expressed in artistic enterprises. It is a love story, of a man and a woman, of friends for one another and for their art. It is, in a very real sense, a spiritual journey, of a young American woman who has always tried to do the right thing and be a righteous human being, who must encounter and come to terms with the sins of the past: the sins of her own family as well as those of her new country, Germany, and her own homeland, America. It is, in many ways, a love song to America and the greatness inherent in its ideals about the human potential.
The Death of Music drew me in, and I was astonished at how deeply you know the subject matter, and how much Nadine's story resonates with my own, having lived in Germany for a year. I especially appreciated phrases such as 'we need music that reaffirms the human spirit.' Also, the discussion of the Baroque period and how it allowed musicians more freedom-I introduce such topics into my graduate classes, and you've managed to integrate it, seamlessly, into your narrative.
--Anne LeBaron, composer and harpist
School of Music, California Institute of the Arts
Participating composer on “Continental Harmony,” PBS, 2001
About the Author
Paulina Kent Dennis has been involved in the theatrical arts for all of her life, starting out as a dancer, and becoming a choreographer and dance producer, which she continued to pursue to the mid-90s of the last century. She has also been heavily involved in musical theater and opera, having directed, designed, and/or produced a number of operas and musicals for various companies. She took part in the civil rights and the anti-war movements. She became an ordained minister in the Congregational tradition and has participated in a number of important ecumenical and interfaith conferences, with a special emphasis on Christian responsibility for the Shoah. She writes on religious, legal and social topics in addition to producing this work, of which “Nadine” is the first part, and which was a way of creating an artistic world in which she could pose the important philosophical questions that concern all serious persons, artists or not.
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