Arias, Cabalettas, And Foreign Affairs
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Condition: Good. The head and tail of the book have some marks (see photo). All pages inside are clean. A lifelong lover of opera and classical music, the author served 35 years in the US Foreign Service. These memoirs recall his devoted engagement with music, especially opera, in the context of that career. This book recalls the author's devoted engagement with music, especially opera, in the context of his 35-year long career in the US Foreign Service. In these memoirs Hans "Tom" Tuch shares fascinating stories from his Cold War service in Moscow, Sofia, and Berlin, including Vice President Nixon's visit to the Soviet Union in 1959, the U-2 disaster, and other crises in US-Soviet relations. He also writes about his friendship with Georg Solti in the 1950s, his attendance at the 1949 and 1950 Salzburg Festivals, the 1951 Maggio Musicale in Florence, the 1953 Pablo Casales music festival, and the 1954 Bayreuth Festival. The many opera productions and concert performances he enjoyed in 1950s Europe featured eminent conductors and outstanding vocal artists, among them Wilhelm Furtwaengler, Bruno Walter, Karl Bohm, George Szell and Sir John Barbirolli.
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