• Claude Debussy’s La Mer• Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5• Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra• Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)• George Gershwin’s An American in Paris• Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite• Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings• Benjamin Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Leonard Slatkin’s fourth book is aimed at budding and on-the-rise conductors, and also, I … Continue reading Book Review: “Eight Symphonic Masterworks of the Twentieth Century. A Study Guide for Conductors.” By Leonard Slatkin.