Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras, Tom Service autofiction And Turtle Alveston is as

And Turtle Alveston is as enthralling a character as I’ve encountered in a good long while’ Kevin Powers

but it was the allied invasion in 2003 that catapulted him to the head of a vast insurgency

full of ancient spells and magical potions

argues Slavoj Žižek

A novel from the author of A Separation

Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and Their Orchestras, Tom Service autofiction And Turtle Alveston is asHow are conductors' silent gestures magicked into sound by a group of more than a hundred brilliant but belligerent musicians? The mute choreography of great conductors has fascinated and frustrated musicians and music lovers for centuries, from Toscanini to Karajan, from Carlos Kleiber to Gustavo Dudamel. Orchestras can be inspired to the heights of musical and expressive possibility by their maestros, or flabbergasted that someone who doesn't even