Table of Contents
Praeludium xi
Part One 1
1 The Bug Bites 3
2 Life Before Life 10
3 Growing Up Slatkin 22
4 Some of That Jazz 31
5 The Turning Point 37
6 Listening with Your Eyes 43
7 Walter Susskind 49
8 The Juilliard 54
9 Jean Morel 60
10 What the Composer Tells Us 65
11 Second Banana 79
Part Two 85
12 A Career Begins 87
13 A Life in the Year 93
14 John Edwards and David Hyslop 99
15 Keeping it All Together 104
16 Playing for Keeps 114
17 Running the Ship 123
18 Leonard Bernstein 141
19 Alice and the Carter Affair 145
20 As the World Turned 153
21 Days and Nights at the Opera 165
22 Everybody Dies 175
23 Hitting the Road 179
24 Summertime and the Livin' is Complicated 191
25 9/15 198
26 Two More Weeks at the Opera 205
27 Heart and Sole 222
28 One Strike and They're Out 233
Part Three 243
29 Ten Essential Decisions 245
30 Ten FAQs 274
Codetta 285
Acknowledgments 291
Music Excerpt Sources 293
Index 295