Charles Munch - Holoman, D. Kern (Distinguished Professor of Music, Distinguished Professor of Music, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA)

In Charles Munch, D. Kern Holoman provides the first full biography of this giant of twentieth-century music, tracing his dramatic survival in occupied Paris, his triumphant arrival at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and his later years, when he was a leading cultural figure in the United States, a man known and admired by Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy.