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Always the Music

How a Lifelong Passion Framed a Future for Orchestras

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Always the Music

By: Thomas W. Morris
Narrated by: Thomas W. Morris, Barbara Hannigan
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Always The Music is the fascinating story of Morris’ personal metamorphosis through the highest levels of the world of classical music, his learning and insights into how storied musical institutions function, great artists create, and audiences engage.

Over the course of 34 years running the Boston Symphony and The Cleveland Orchestra, he had the growing realization that American orchestras had become ingrown on themselves, with rigid structures and cultures that conspired to perpetuate those structures rather than the music experiences they were built to create. Stepping back from orchestras and looking to experiment with his evolving insights, he became artistic director of the Ojai Music Festival. Its size, its setting, its unique structure and a long history with many of the world’s most innovative and influential musicians and composers provided an opportunity for Morris to reimagine musical experiences by challenging all aspects of making music and producing concerts.

The first part of the book recounts Morris’s journey through close collaborations with key individuals and projects, while the final chapters synthesizes his career lessons into an unequivocal but thoughtful prescription for the future of the American orchestra. Mostly, though, this is the entertaining story of one man’s lifelong love affair with great music and the people who make it.

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His Heart’s in Music

I’ve never met Tom Morris but have lived in Cleveland since 1958 and am a longtime subscriber to the Cleveland Orchestra. Thus I am not an impartial absorber of Tom’s book. It is wonderfully detailed about so many things that are vital to me, including advice that the music world needs to pay attention to, for its health.

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An important work and a good performance

Tom Morris is an important person in the Classical Music business in the last half century. He relates his vast experience with various ventures (such as the Boston Symphony and Cleveland Orchestras). He describes his work with a series of important characters, including Arthur Fiedler of the Boston Pops.

Tom finishes his account with wise advice about how orchestras might reformulate their programming to better meet the new audience’s now encountered today. Hint: it isn’t by continuing to conservative path now being pursued.

Tom’s knowledge of the music business in encyclopedic. He uses numerous specific examples of how change could be implemented.

The performance by the author is flawless - communicating Tom’s personality and enthusiasm for music.

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