Owain Arwel Hughes
My Life in Music
Distributed for University of Wales Press
With a Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales
187 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2012
Owain Arwel Hughes is a world-renowned orchestral conductor who was named a Companion of the British Empire in honor of his varied career at the BBC and in popular television. His charming, perceptive autobiography, Owain Arwel Hughes: My Life in Music, tells the tale of a Cardiff-born boy who, thanks to his extraordinary musical talent, became one of the world’s most successful and respected conductors, enjoying a long and distinguished career with some of the world’s leading orchestras in Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, and South Africa. Engagingly written, with a narrative that is both reflective and amusing, this book tells of the intrigues and challenges of life as a public figure, and is peppered throughout with anecdotes and incidents from Hughes’s fascinating life and his associations with such figures as Luciano Pavarotti, Shirley Bassey, and more.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Prologue
1. Origins
2. Schooldays
3. Chapel, Sport—and Music
4. Decision Time
5. Getting Started
6. In Search of Work
7. The BBC and the Halle
8. From Hong Kong to Llangollen
9. Outside Broadcasts
10. The Huddersfield Choral
11. The Welsh Proms
12. Scandinavia
13. The National Youth Orchestra and Further Travels
14. And Finally . . . Or, The Lightning Conductor
Select Discography
Index
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Prologue
1. Origins
2. Schooldays
3. Chapel, Sport—and Music
4. Decision Time
5. Getting Started
6. In Search of Work
7. The BBC and the Halle
8. From Hong Kong to Llangollen
9. Outside Broadcasts
10. The Huddersfield Choral
11. The Welsh Proms
12. Scandinavia
13. The National Youth Orchestra and Further Travels
14. And Finally . . . Or, The Lightning Conductor
Select Discography
Index
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