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2013/01/23 - Joseph Eger, a French horn player, conductor and advocate for progressive causes whose work sought to promote harmony in both senses of the word, died on Jan. 13 at his home in Durham, N.C. He was 92. His wife, Dorita Beh-Eger, confirmed the death. A distinguished horn soloist in the mid-20th century, Mr. Eger later turned to conducting; in the 1960s he served under Leopold Stokowski as an associate conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra.
Joseph Eger, a French horn player, conductor and advocate for progressive causes whose work sought to promote harmony in both senses of the word, died on Jan. 13 at his home in Durham, N.C. He was 92.
His wife, Dorita Beh-Eger, confirmed the death.
A distinguished horn soloist in the mid-20th century, Mr. Eger later turned to conducting; in the 1960s he served under Leopold Stokowski as an associate conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra.
In the 1960s and ’70s Mr. Eger founded several groups designed to conscript music and the other arts in the service of social change. The best known of these, Symphony for United Nations, a nongovernmental organization associated with the United Nations, was established in New York in 1974.
Comprising a fluid, ever-changing roster of professional musicians and other performers, the group has put on concerts throughout the world, including benefit performances for victims of the Chernobyl disaster and Bosnian refuges.
It gave its last performance, in San Francisco, with Mr. Eger conducting Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, in 2010. Ms. Beh-Eger said she hoped to revive the group under a new conductor.
Joseph Eger was born on July 9, 1920, in South Manchester, Conn., and reared in and around Pittsburgh. After studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he played in orchestras throughout the United States.
By the 1950s he had embarked on a solo career, something that few players of the French horn, with its temperamental constitution and limited solo repertory, have been able to do.
“When you ask a hornist to name a famous hornist from that time, the name everyone would give was Dennis Brain,” said Kate Pritchett, an assistant professor of French horn at Oklahoma City University, invoking the celebrated English player, who died in 1957. “And Joseph Eger was very much the American equivalent.” (Ms. Pritchett wrote a doctoral dissertation on Mr. Eger’s work.)
As a soloist, Mr. Eger appeared on some of New York’s principal concert stages, including Carnegie Hall. Reviewing his performance of Mozart’s Third Horn Concerto at Town Hall in 1956, The New York Times wrote that “his playing of the difficult cadenza in the first movement elicited from yesterday’s audience a subdued gasp of admiration.”
In the early 1960s, the slip of a tool while Mr. Eger was in the dentist’s chair gave him a lip injury that ended his playing career. He switched to conducting, studying under Pierre Monteux.
In the ’60s and afterward, Mr. Eger founded a series of professional and semiprofessional ensembles in Manhattan, among them the West Side Symphony and the New York Orchestral Society, that gave free concerts in city parks, housing projects and other public spaces.
By the end of the decade he had begun presenting concerts that fused classical music with rock and featured psychedelic spectacles by Joshua Light Show.
In the early ’70s Mr. Eger founded Aware, New York, a group intended to promote social harmony in the city through live multimedia performances. The next year he founded the Yoga Symphony, which sought to infuse Eastern music and spiritual practice into Western concert halls.
Mr. Eger’s first marriage, to Dixie Blackstone, ended in divorce. Ms. Beh-Eger, whom he married in 1990, is his only immediate survivor.
Among his recordings is a critically praised 1957 album, “Around the Horn” (RCA Victor), which includes solo pieces and a lecture by Mr. Eger about the French horn.
He was the author of a book, “Einstein’s Violin: A Conductor’s Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change,” published in 2005.
Mr. Eger’s musical philosophy was perhaps best expressed by a concert he conducted at Alice Tully Hall in 1972. The program included “Wind Piece,” a composition by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that called for huge electric fans to be stationed in the orchestra, blowing the pages of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony at random on players’ music stands.
The players played whatever page was open at any given moment. The result, as The Times described it, was “chaos.”
But that, Mr. Eger said, was precisely the point. “You can drop bombs on people,” he told The Times afterward, “and blow their pages apart, so to speak, but the people will remain. London didn’t fall apart during the blitz, and New York won’t fall apart now.”
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Joseph Eger's life is a testimony to the power of music. Among the most venerated classical conductors of his generation, Eger has discovered within music a universal language that not only unites people across cultures but also suggests something about the physical rules of life itself.
In Einstein's Violin, Eger distills more than half a century of personal experience and what it has taught him about how music is uncannily similar in its design to the concepts of "string theory" that have become overwhelming popular in today's theoretical physics. Eger deals with how music relates not only to the physical world but to the social one as well. He was among the first classical performers to see music as a force for change, leading him to cross enemy lines in the Middle East, to perform fusion concerts with rock stars including John Lennon, and to become a voice for social advocacy from the hearing rooms of the House Un-American Activities Committee to the stage of Harlem's Apollo Theater.
Eger's life is a tour through the music and science of the twentieth century. In Einstein's Violin, readers encounter intimate portraits of prominent figures such as Leonard Bernstein, David Bohm, and Albert Einstein. Eger also probes the origins of ancient music in the hands of the Hebrews, Egyptians, Hindus, ancient Chinese, and the schools of Pythagoras to plumb the sources of this unifying language of the universe.
In Einstein's Violin, Eger distills more than half a century of personal experience and what it has taught him about how music is uncannily similar in its design to the concepts of "string theory" that have become overwhelming popular in today's theoretical physics. Eger deals with how music relates not only to the physical world but to the social one as well. He was among the first classical performers to see music as a force for change, leading him to cross enemy lines in the Middle East, to perform fusion concerts with rock stars including John Lennon, and to become a voice for social advocacy from the hearing rooms of the House Un-American Activities Committee to the stage of Harlem's Apollo Theater.
Eger's life is a tour through the music and science of the twentieth century. In Einstein's Violin, readers encounter intimate portraits of prominent figures such as Leonard Bernstein, David Bohm, and Albert Einstein. Eger also probes the origins of ancient music in the hands of the Hebrews, Egyptians, Hindus, ancient Chinese, and the schools of Pythagoras to plumb the sources of this unifying language of the universe.
About the Author
Joseph Eger is the founder and musical director of the Symphony for United Nations (SUN) and is the music director and conductor of the Southwest Florida Symphony. He has conducted, recorded, and performed with many of the major orchestras of the world.
Product Details
- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: Tarcher; 1ST edition (March 17, 2005)
- Language: English
爱因斯坦的小提琴--一位指挥家看音乐、物理和社会变革
作 者：（美）埃格尔 著，王祖哲 译 出 版 社：湖南科技出版社
出版时间：2010-4-1
【內容介紹】
作為聯合國交響樂團指揮和jE京中央愛樂樂團客座指揮，約瑟夫·埃格爾曾經指揮過世界上一些主要的交響樂團。在美國和歐洲，他曾做過利奧波德·斯托科夫斯 基的副指揮。埃格爾也作為圓號演奏家周遊世界，被《紐約時報》譽為“仍然存世的最偉大的圓號演奏家”之一。他在卡內基大廳舉辦了十二場音樂會，交響樂和搖 滾樂珠聯璧合，此舉前所未有，並在林肯中心音樂廳和約翰·列農、大野洋子合作。美國國會山的500位“有眼光的女士”選舉了兩位得到“埃莉諾·羅斯福有眼 光的男士獎”的男士，他是其中之一。
【目錄】
1 我怎麼想到寫這本書
2 槍口對著我的臉：音樂撐著我的腰
3 事情的緣起——話說：1951年
4 音樂之樂、物理之樂
5 身為音樂家是何情形
6 何為音樂？
7 贊歌
8 音樂作為文本
9 音樂是匕首
10 個人的戰爭
11 指揮家，連貫性和變化
12 聽眾革命
13 貝多芬，我的英雄
14 貝多芬的音樂
15 幻想曲：赫克托·柏遼茲(1803-1869)
16 愛因斯坦其人
17 音樂與科學
18 量子革命
19 音樂的科學；科學的音樂
20 超弦理論
21 奔向目標
22 超弦：我的鄰家領地
23 大比例和小比例
24 從牛頓到愛因斯坦到玻爾到威騰：仍然在尋求革命性的科學
25 物理學和音樂：音樂波
26 證據？
27 開普勒的世界和諧前來搭救
28 現像還是本質？
29 現代物理學
30 我們是怎麼樣的？我們是由波、粒子還是音樂構成的？
31 量子神秘主義
32 何為實在？
33 天籟
34 我們都走著牛頓的老路嗎？
35 創造力
36 背景和參照繫
37 宇宙果真是由音樂構成的？
38 分子朋友和分子敵人
39 煉金術：“邪術”
40 交響樂團怎麼就像全息攝影呢？
41 外圍影像
42 神秘的巧合
43 生理學家與腦電波音樂
44 數學：跳過這一章吧(但我敦促讀者不要采納我的建議)
45 更多的聯繫
46 上帝、表面現像和實在
47 絕對真理：神創論對進化論
48 物理學中的一次危機
49 愛因斯坦看社會變化
50 音樂的危險
51 藝術與科學的力量
52 埃莉諾·羅斯福與美國的首都
53 藝術自由
54 音樂：社會變革的手段
55 危機加深
56 我們的後人類未來
57 科學與宗教
58 上帝和因果關繫的較量
59 自由的小提琴家和自由電子
60 理論與實在：音樂管用嗎？
61 都在於什麼？
62 科學向音樂之顫求婚
63 音樂和文化
64 語言的力量
65 未得回答的問題
66 藝術的力量
67 音樂的物理學：物理學的音樂
68 物理學和音樂中的一場革命
69 文明與好社會
70 為時太晚了嗎？
71 開始論還是終結論
72 音樂和物理學可以力挽狂瀾？
1 我怎麼想到寫這本書
在多事之秋，一個分擔時代的激情和行動的人，應該擔心自己虛度此生。我的一生充滿了音樂和社會關懷。物理學是我終生的業餘興趣。還不到7歲的時候，從我的家庭開始，我就深深地關懷社會；經年累月，這種關懷及於天涯海角。
——奧立弗·文德爾·霍爾墨斯
幾年之後，就來了音樂。音樂一進入我的生活，它就成了我持久的至愛，最後成了終生的職業。
至於物理，我先得承認我不是個物理學家，也沒正兒八經地研究過物理，不過是在學校裡拉裡拉雜地學過一些而已。但在有人指責我假作謙虛之前，我也會承認，我 在睡前讀的書常常包括相對論和量子力學。這些學科讓我心醉神迷，因為它們和我對音樂的感覺，和我一生的社會活動，同聲相應。
對我而言，音樂、物理和社會關懷細密地織成一片，和納瓦霍印第安人的小地毯相似。用這三種線紡成的這本書的經線和緯線，織成了許多相得益彰的圖案。
……
【編輯推薦】
作為聯合國交響樂團指揮和北京中央愛樂樂團客座指揮，約瑟夫·埃格爾曾經指揮過世界上一些主要的交響樂團。在美國和歐洲，他曾做 過利奧波德·斯托科夫斯基的副指揮。埃格爾也作為圓號演奏家周遊世界，被《紐約時報》譽為“仍然存世的最偉大的圓號演奏家”之一。
本書為埃格爾關於音樂、物理和社會變革的手記。作為當代著名的指揮家，他認識到音樂不僅把不同文化的人們聯繫起來，而且蘊涵了生命內在的自然之道。
這本書的原文和翻譯，都有不太理想處。
愛因斯坦的小提琴
作者 : 約瑟夫·埃格爾
出版社:湖南科技副標題:一位指揮家看音樂、物理和社會變革譯者 : 王祖哲出版年: 2010-4 頁數: 358 定價: 39.00元ISBN: 9787535761064
內容簡介 · · · · · ·
《愛因斯坦的小提琴:一位指揮家看音樂、物理和社會變革》內容簡介：作為聯合國交響樂團指揮和北京中央愛樂樂團客座指揮，約瑟夫·埃格爾（Joseph Eger）曾經指揮過世界上一些主要的交響樂團。在美國和歐洲，他曾做過利奧波德.·斯托科夫斯基（Leopold Stokowski）的副指揮。埃格爾也作為圓號演奏家周遊世界，被《紐約時報）譽為”仍然存世的最偉大的圓號演奏家”之一。他在卡內基大廳舉辦了十二場音樂會，交響樂和搖滾樂珠聯璧合，此舉前所未有，並在林肯中心音樂廳和約翰·列農、大野洋子合作。美國國會山的500位”有眼光的女士”選舉了兩位得到“埃莉諾·羅斯福有眼光的男士獎”的男士，他是其中之一。
作者簡介 · · · · · ·
作為聯合國交響樂團指揮和jE京中央愛樂樂團客座指揮，約瑟夫·埃格爾曾經指揮過世界上一些主要的交響樂團。在美國和歐洲，他曾做過利奧波德·斯托科夫斯基的副指揮。埃格爾也作為圓號演奏家周遊世界，被《紐約時報》譽為“仍然存世的最偉大的圓號演奏家”之一。他在卡內基大廳舉辦了十二場音樂會，交響樂和搖滾樂珠聯璧合，此舉前所未有，並在林肯中心音樂廳和約翰·列農、大野洋子合作。美國國會山的500位“有眼光的女士”選舉了兩位得到“埃莉諾·羅斯福有眼光的男士獎”的男士，他是其中之一。
目錄 · · · · · ·
1 我怎麼想到寫這本書2 槍口對著我的臉：音樂撐著我的腰3 事情的緣起——話說：1951年4 音樂之樂、物理之樂5 身為音樂家是何情形6何為音樂？7 讚歌8 音樂作為文本9 音樂是匕首10 個人的戰爭11 指揮家，連貫性和變化12 聽眾革命13 貝多芬，我的英雄14 貝多芬的音樂15 幻想曲：赫克托·柏遼茲(1803 -1869)16 愛因斯坦其人17 音樂與科學18 量子革命19 音樂的科學；科學的音樂20 超弦理論21 奔向目標22 超弦：我的鄰家領地23 大比例和小比例24 從牛頓到愛因斯坦到玻爾到威騰：仍然在尋求革命性的科學25 物理學和音樂：音樂波26 證據？27 開普勒的世界和諧前來搭救28 現像還是本質？29 現代物理學30 我們是怎麼樣的？我們是由波、粒子還是音樂構成的？31 量子神秘主義32 何為實在？33 天籟34 我們都走著牛頓的老路嗎？35 創造力36 背景和參照系37 宇宙果真是由音樂構成的？38 分子朋友和分子敵人39 煉金術：“邪術”40 交響樂團怎麼就像全息攝影呢？41 外圍影像42 神秘的巧合43 生理學家與腦電波音樂44 數學：跳過這一章吧(但我敦促讀者不要採納我的建議)45 更多的聯繫46 上帝、表面現象和實在47 絕對真理：神創論對進化論48 物理學中的一次危機49 愛因斯坦看社會變化50 音樂的危險51 藝術與科學的力量52 埃莉諾·羅斯福與美國的首都53 藝術自由54 音樂：社會變革的手段55危機加深56 我們的後人類未來57 科學與宗教58 上帝和因果關係的較量59 自由的小提琴家和自由電子60 理論與實在：音樂管用嗎？61 都在於什麼？62 科學向音樂之顫求婚63 音樂和文化64 語言的力量65 未得回答的問題66 藝術的力量67 音樂的物理學：物理學的音樂68 物理學和音樂中的一場革命69 文明與好社會70 為時太晚了嗎？71 開始論還是終結論72 音樂和物理學可以力挽狂瀾？
Einstein's Violin , 2005
by Joseph Eger
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Tarcher; First Edition edition (March 17, 2005)
Joseph Eger's life is a testimony to the power of music. Among the most venerated classical conductors of his generation, Eger has discovered within music a universal language that not only unites people across cultures but also suggests something about the physical rules of life itself.
In Einstein's Violin, Eger distills more than half a century of personal experience and what it has taught him about how music is uncannily similar in its design to the concepts of "string theory" that have become overwhelming popular in today's theoretical physics. Eger deals with how music relates not only to the physical world but to the social one as well. He was among the first classical performers to see music as a force for change, leading him to cross enemy lines in the Middle East, to perform fusion concerts with rock stars including John Lennon, and to become a voice for social advocacy from the hearing rooms of the House Un-American Activities Committee to the stage of Harlem's Apollo Theater.
Eger's life is a tour through the music and science of the twentieth century. In Einstein's Violin, readers encounter intimate portraits of prominent figures such as Leonard Bernstein, David Bohm, and Albert Einstein. Eger also probes the origins of ancient music in the hands of the Hebrews, Egyptians, Hindus, ancient Chinese, and the schools of Pythagoras to plumb the sources of this unifying language of the universe.
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