This interactive, authorized book about Carnegie Hall -- one of the greatest cultural institutions in the world -- is the only volume on the market and is being published in sync with the Hall's 120th anniversary in 2010.
The book's content appeals to serious music aficionados, musicians, pop culture fans, and New York tourists alike. The book package is a visually rich, annotated keepsake scrapbook. Along with running text by Pulitzer Prize-winning music writer Tim Page, it will include more than 200 black and white and color photographs and illustration and more than 30 removable artifacts housed in vellum envelopes throughout.
In a conversational tone that will appeal to the musically knowledgeable and those eager to learn, the book will relate the history of Carnegie Hall, information on the building itself (concert halls: history and design, evolution of the exterior and interior, acoustics), but the majority of the book is devoted to highlighting great moments in Carnegie Hall's history: visuals of the jazz, world, classical, and popular musicians who've graced its stages and all the attendant memorabilia-tickets, programs, posters, album covers, letters, telegrams, original sheet music, etc. Famous actors, dancers, orators and other public speakers will be included, too.
(The closest comparable book on the market is In Grand Style: The Glory of the Metropolitan Opera, Volpe and Clark, Rizzoli, 2006, 224 pages, $85. Other comparables in terms of format include the Sinatra Treasures (Bulfinch) and The Audrey Treasures (Simon & Schuster).
