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An irreverent guide to the music profession, by Alice McVeigh £. 9. Fruity, feisty and fizzy, and adorned with cartoons by Private Eye's Noel Ford - All Risks Musical is the book every conductor will want to ban. A richly entertaining mixture of tongue-in-cheek cynicism and practical advice that should gladden the hearts of musicians everywhere.

All Risks Musical, an Irreverent Guide to the Music Profession (Pocket .

All Risks Musical, an Irreverent Guide to the Music Profession (Pocket Press, Surrey, cartoons by Noel Ford). Beating Time (a play, published by New Theatre Publications, London, and put on in full production at the Lewisham Theatre, London). Indiana University Press: Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi (Bella Brover-Lubovsky). The Boydell Press: The Italian Solo Concerto 1700-1760 (McVeigh and Jehoash Hirshberg).

All Risks Musical book. I am reminded of this book, having just finished a major project of 40 musicians performing 1 hour of my compositions -- I would love to meet McVeigh in person in London. Nikki added it Sep 10, 2013. Isabel Hertaeg marked it as to-read Nov 28, 2014. Art Nunymiss marked it as to-read Mar 20, 2015.

Born American but long based in London, she is also a professional orchestral cellist, playwright, wife and mother. She is also the author of one non-fiction book, All Risks Musical (Pocket Press, featuring cartoons by Noel Ford). Alice, who occasionally writes for international publications including the Guardian and the Strad, also writes a column for the daily classical music internet magazine Music and Vision. Alice has been long been married to Simon McVeigh (Professor of music and recently deputy Vice-Chancellor at Goldsmiths College, University of London).

In a series of amusing rules, cellist Alice McVeigh describes exactly how to succeed in the music profession (or .

In a series of amusing rules, cellist Alice McVeigh describes exactly how to succeed in the music profession (or not?). gently sardonic and irreverent look at the orchestral profession from the inside

All Risks Musical, an Irreverent Guide to the Music Profession (Pocket Press, Surrey, cartoons by Noel Ford). Beating Time (a play, published by New Theatre Publications, London, and put on in full production at the Lewisham Theatre, London, 1997)

All Risks Musical, an Irreverent Guide to the Music Profession (Pocket Press, Surrey, cartoons by Noel Ford). Beating Time (a play, published by New Theatre Publications, London, and put on in full production at the Lewisham Theatre, London, 1997). The Grand International (Fergus Wilson and Alice McVeigh). Paradox Lost (Adrian L. Youseman). Stretching It (Mandy Sutter). By a Rat’s Tail (Harry Chance)