Table of Contents

Contents
Prelude: Etude on a Life in Music
Acknowledgments

1. Music Directors
2. Staff Conductors
3. Touring the World
4. "And how was the tour?"
5. Guest Conductors
6. Learning a New Language; or, The Sayings of the Conductors
7. Nights at the Opera
8. Singers
9. Knowing Some Soloists
10. Making Recordings
11. Solo Dates
12. Outside Jobs
13. Rondo Finale

Appendix 1. Orchestral Recordings
Appendix 2. Opera Performances
Appendix 3. Peck Concerti with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Appendix 4. Non–Chicago Symphony Solo Dates
Index

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A fascinating look at the orchestral career of one of this country's greatest flutists

About the Author

Donald Peck toured the world with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, played under four music directors, and made 300 recordings. Principal Flute Emeritus of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Peck is an orchestral soloist and noted recitalist and is currently on the faculty of Roosevelt University in Chicago. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Reviews

"A valuable memoir by someone with a unique vision of what it was like to perform in an American orchestra in the 20th century." Mary Ellyn Hutton, Music Writer, The Cincinnati Post