Kent Nagano:
Lessons of my Life –
what really counts
What does the voice of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire sound like? The international star conductor Kent Nagano asked himself this question for many years. Then, suddenly, he found it, high above the clouds, and in the course of this, he learnt one of the most important lessons of his life.
The American conductor and general music director of the Hamburg State Opera, who is at home on all of the world's great stages, is not only a fascinating artist, but also a brilliant storyteller. Together with the award-winning film and bestseller author Inge Kloepfer, he has written down the ten most important lessons of his life: 10 Lessons of my Life – what really counts.
In conversation with his co-author, he talks about some of the encounters that have shaped him, like meeting Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and Frank Zappa, for example, and completely surprises his audience, as he so often does, because by telling these stories, the otherwise so reserved classical music star permits us to gain some deep insights into his soul.
