{"product_id":"oc4003","title":"Evenings With the Orchestra Hector Berlioz and Jacques Barzun — Good","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"ebay-desc\"\u003e\u003cdiv id=\"sc__div\"\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com\/bootstrap\/3.3.5\/css\/bootstrap.min.css\"\u003e\n          \u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css?family=Open+Sans:300,600\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\"\u003e\n  \u003cmeta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\"\u003e\n  \u003cstyle\u003e.listing {\n      font-size: 16px;\n    }\n\n    .description {\n      margin-left: 20px;\n    }\n\n    .listing .images {\n     max-width: 90%;\n     border-top-left-radius: 16px !important;\n     border-top-right-radius: 16px !important;\n     border-bottom-left-radius: 16px !important;\n     border-bottom-right-radius: 16px !important;\n     padding: 10px 10px !important;\n   }\n\n  .listing .images img {\n      max-height: 520px;\n      max-width: 100%;\n      text-align: center;\n      margin: 0 auto;\n      display: block;\n  }\n\n  .listing .row {\n    margin-top: 20px;\n  }\n  .panel-container {\n    margin-top: 30px;\n  }\n\n  .listing li {\n    margin-bottom: 5px;\n  }\n\n  .listing .panel-default {\n    border-color: #000;\n  }\n\n  .listing .panel-default .panel-heading {\n    color: #fff;\n    background-color: #444;\n    border-color: #444;\n  }\n\n  .listing .panel {\n    margin-left: 30px;\n  }\n\n  .listing .panel-body {\n    min-height: 140px;\n  }\n\n  .listing .section {\n    width: 48.6666%;\n  }\n  .listing .created-via {\n    font-style: italic;\n  }\n  @media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {\n    .row {\n      margin: 0px;\n    }\n\n    .col, .listing .section {\n      margin-left: 10px;\n      padding-left: 5px;\n      padding-right: 5px;\n      width: 90%;\n    }\n  }\n  \u003c\/style\u003e\n\n  \u003cdiv class=\"listing\"\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n    \u003cdiv class=\"col col-sm-8\"\u003e\n      \u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\n        \u003ch3\u003eEvenings With the Orchestra Hector Berlioz and Jacques Barzun\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n         \u003cp style=\"margin-top: 20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDuring the performances of fashionable operas in an unidentified but \"civilized\" town in northern Europe, the musicians (with the exception of the conscientious bass drummer) tell tales, read stories, and exchange gossip to relieve the tedium of the bad music they are paid to perform. In this delightful and now classic narrative written by the brilliant composer and critic Hector Berlioz, we are privy to twenty-five highly entertaining evenings with a fascinating group of distracted performers. As we near the two-hundredth anniversary of Berlioz's birth, Jacques Barzun's pitch-perfect translation of \u003ci\u003eEvenings with the Orchestra\u003c\/i\u003e with a new foreword by Berlioz scholar Peter Bloom testifies to the enduring pleasure found in this most witty and amusing book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[F]ull of knowledge, penetration, good sense, individual wit, stock humor, justifiable exasperation, understanding exaggeration, emotion and rhetoric of every kind.\" Randall Jarrell, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To succeed in [writing these tales], as Berlioz most brilliantly does, requires a combination of qualities which is very rare, the many-faceted curiosity of the dramatist with the aggressively personal vision of the lyric poet.\" W. H. Auden, \u003ci\u003eThe Griffin\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n      \u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003cdiv class=\"col col-sm-3\"\u003e\n      \u003cdiv class=\"images\"\u003e\n        \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71ruKephPCL.jpg\"\u003e\n      \u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003c\/div\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n  \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e\n    \n\n    \n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n  \u003cdiv class=\"row panel-container\"\u003e\n    \u003cdiv class=\"col col-sm-4\"\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"panel panel-success\"\u003e\n              \u003cdiv class=\"panel-heading\"\u003eFast and Free Shipping\u003c\/div\u003e\n              \u003cdiv class=\"panel-body\"\u003e\n                You're already purchasing the item. Why pay additional for shipping, especially slow shipping? 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