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Movies Toscanini in His Own Words Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Nominations Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series Books The Ninth: Beethoven and the, Rubinstein: A Life, Arthur Rubinstein: A Life, Toscanini, Music in Fascist Italy Similar People Arturo Toscanini, Larry Weinstein, Daniel Iron | ||
Speranza Scappucci in conversation with Harvey Sachs
Harvey Sachs, (born Cleveland, Ohio, June 8, 1946) is an American-Canadian-Swiss writer who has written many books on musical subjects.
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Writing
His books include biographies of and a book of essays on the Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, plus an edited collection of Toscanini's letters.
Sachs has also written books on great musical virtuosi, a history of music in Italy during the fascist period, the definitive biography of Arthur Rubinstein, and, most recently, a book on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony that is part cultural history, part musical description, and part personal memoir.
Sachs co-authored the memoirs of Plácido Domingo and Sir Georg Solti.
Harvey Sachs has written over 600 articles and other pieces for periodicals that include The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Times [London] Literary Supplement; record companies that include Deutsche Grammophon and RCA/BMG; and many radio and television programs. His most recent job for television has been co-authoring (with director Larry Weinstein) the Ideale-Audience production, "Toscanini in His Own Words", was shown by BBC, Arte, and other major networks worldwide in 2009. He has lectured at educational and cultural institutions all over North America and Europe.
Work and family
Sachs is on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and during the 2012-13 season he is the Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence of the New York Philharmonic. He lived in Europe for more than 30 years, mostly in Italy but also in England and Switzerland. From 2004 to 2006 he was Artistic Director of the Societa' del Quartetto di Milano, Italy's oldest extant and most prestigious concert society. He is the father of two children: Julian (b. 1984), is Program Director of New York University's Casa Italiana and is involved in other cultural projects in New York City; and Lyuba (b. 1998), is a high school student in Switzerland. Harvey Sachs currently lives in New York City. His website is www.harveysachs.com.