Bøger af Webster Young

The Palaces of Music recalls three decades of a musical career which took composer Webster Young from the mountains of Southern Oregon to the palaces of the international music world, meeting such figures as Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Martins, Kurt Masur, Elaine Malbin, Cia Toscanini, and Placido Domingo. But he continually returned to the mountains of Oregon and the home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where he finally wrote his opera on "As You Like It". This was his 5th and most important opera, after writing symphonies, ballets, piano works, tangos, and salsa pieces. His works now number 170. Webster Young has been a writer on music for Newsday, the Intercollegiate Review, and the National Catholic Register. He was twice invited by the White House to be a candidate for Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. (US government) He is a published neoclassical composer, and was in the 1980's the most prolific composer for ballet in the US.Young's first book, The Naked Composer, received a Finalist Medal from USA Book News Awards.

This is the earlier edition of "Music, Painting, and Jung", with the same text and photos. Reviews of this book were made by newspapers, journals including Image, blogs, and contests using the "Berkeley-Paris" title. (Finalist Medal winner, USA Book News Awards, etc ) "Berkeley-Paris Express" ("Music Painting, and Jung") is the colorful and important story of the explorations of a young composer (the author as a young man) who has quit popular music and has begun to write his first symphony. No special knowledge of music or painting is required of the reader. In his teens, as a guitar playing prodigy, Webster Young was acquainted with Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Baxter (Doobie Brothers), and John Kay (Steppenwolf). His life changed forever after he met, in the tumult of Berkeley in 1968, a brilliant expressionist painter, Kenneth Frantz, a follower of Carl Jung's psychology, who became his mentor. (Frantz studied with David Park and was part of the San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950's. His paintings are seen for the first time in tis book, in 14 illustrations. )Young discovered a road to artistic sanity - a new basis for meaning in art and music. Berkeley-Paris Express is the memoir of his discovery of the "big ideas of music and life" after his conversion to classical music. It is about the influences of people and places upon him - first, that of Kenneth Frantz the painter, and later, that of the city of Paris and the Juilliard School. The middle third of the book concerns the author's first time in Paris; the last third is about the Juilliard School and New York. 69 illustrations include paintings by Chagall, Rouault, Corot, and Kenneth Miller Frantz.

The Little Flowers of the Desert Brothers (samples at the Facebook page) partakes of the simplicity, spiritual insight, and humor of The Sayings of the Desert Fathers and the The Little Flowers of St Francis, yet is entirely reported from the present day world and its monastic life. This is a series of anecdotes, gathered from many years of experiences visiting Roman Catholic monasteries in the Western United States. Everything is recorded by the author from real life - the bulk of it from first-hand experience. Some of the anecdotes the author reports as a third party, with a close friend at a monastery as a source. Real names are not indicated, only pseudonyms, to protect the privacy of those mentioned. It is meant almost as a form of poetry that shows the human-ness, the inspiration, the challenges.... and ultimately the "treasure stored up in Heaven" found in monastic life.

USA Book News Awards, Finalist Medal "Music, Painting, and Jung" by Webster Young (the book video is at the Facebook Page) is the colorful and important story of the education of a young composer (the author as a young man) who has quit popular music and has begun to write his first symphony. No special knowledge of music or painting is required of the reader. In his teens, as a guitar playing prodigy, Webster Young was acquainted with the Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Baxter (Doobie Brothers), and John Kay (Steppenwolf). His life changed forever after he met, in the tumult of Berkeley in 1968, a brilliant expressionist painter, Kenneth Frantz, a follower of Carl Jung's psychology, who became his mentor. (Frantz studied with David Park and was part of the San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950's. His Jungian paintings are seen for the first time in tis book, in 14 illustrations. )Young discovered a new basis for meaning in art and music that, even today, could have a liberating impact on the art world. Young converted to writing neoclassical music and is now, thirty years later, the composer of 170 works, with symphonies, ballets, and operas to his credit. "Music, Painting, and Jung" is the memoir of his education after conversion to classical music, full of interesting artistic ideas. (A new footnote in the introduction to this edition explains how Webster Young discovered, after writing this Jung influenced book, that his family name was Jung in Germany.) "Music, Painting, and Jung" is about the influences of people and places upon him - first, that of Kenneth Frantz the Jungian painter, and later, that of the city of Paris and the Juilliard School. A third of the book concerns the author's first time in Paris; the last third is about the Juilliard School and New York. 69 illustrations include paintings by Chagall, Rouault, Corot, and Kenneth Miller Frantz.The author has been a journalist in music for Newsday New York, The Catholic Herald, and the Intercollegiate Review, and other newspapers.

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