Author: Caldwell, Sarah,
Title: Challenges: a memoir of my life in opera.
Description: Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University, (2008). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Founder and long-time director of the Opera Company of Boston and the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera, Caldwell. was one of the best known and most adventurous conductors and opera directors. Her career spanned her wildly successful and innovative productions of classical operas such as Offenbach's Voyage to the Moon, Don Quixote, and Madama Butterfly to projects like "Making Music Together" which in 1988 brought together musicians and composers from the Soviet Union and the U.S. Challenges is based on a series of interviews Matlock conducted over a period of three years before Caldwell's death in 2006. Laid in Press Release from Wesleyan about Caldwell's memoir of her extraordinary career and personal accounts of working with important artists, her travels to the Soviet Union, S. Africa, Israel, Venezuela and China, where she carried with her a firm belief in the importance of communication between nations and the ability of music to facilitate understanding. It notes that Caldwell was the first woman to conduct the U.S. Marine Corps Band. Back of DJ has few creases.

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