The Pope′s Maestro - Hardcover

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Sir Gilbert Levine is a distinguished American conductor who has led major orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, San Francisco Symphony, London Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Krakow Philharmonic, and L Orchestre de la Bastille (Paris). Educated at Juilliard, Princeton, and Yale, Maestro Levine has conducted numerous televised concerts on PBS and for the European Broadcasting Union, and performed for His Holiness Pope John Paul II on many occasions. He has been honored with the highest Pontifical Knighthood accorded a non-ecclesiastical musician since Mozart.

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Maestro Gilbert Levine had the extraordinary privilege of conducting concerts for His Holiness Pope John Paul II for seventeen years. I was proud to collaborate closely with him as he created such events as the Papal Concert to Commemorate Shoah and the Papal Concert of Reconciliation, which helped immeasurable to bring the Pope s message of peace and understanding to Christians and Jews, Muslims, and peoples of all faith throughout the world. Sir Gilbert s inspiring book about his journey to Krakow, the Vatican, and beyond will enrich everyone who reads this unique and ennobling story. Stanislaw Cardinal Dziwisz, Archbishop of Krakow

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The Pope s Maestro tells the inspirational story of a most improbable friendship between the American conductor Sir Gilbert Levine and His Holiness Pope John Paul II. Together they collaborated closely, over a period of more than seventeen years, using music to heal centuries-old religious wounds.

Maestro Levine created and conducted a series of ground-breaking, internationally broadcast concerts that brought artistic form to Pope John Paul II s fervent wish to forge an historic bridge first between the Roman Catholic Church and the Jewish people, and then, after 9/11, with the Muslim world as well. These efforts culminated in the Papal Concert to Commemorate the Holocaust in 1994 and the Papal Concert of Reconciliation in 2004.

During his years as music director [stet caps for Sir G s preference] of the Kraków Philharmonic, Sir Gilbert had an insider s view of Eastern Europe s inexorable journey from Communism to freedom. And in the years following, he experienced the world of Pope John Paul in a way few lay people, and even fewer Jews, have ever been honored to do. That work, paradoxically enough, deepened Sir Gilbert s own Jewish belief and practice .

The Pope s Maestro tells the story of the compelling musical and spiritual journey of two men of different faiths who found in music the power to foster peace and unity in a profoundly divided world.