Chapter 1 A Prodigy's Apprenticeship 1 --
Chapter 2 Orchestra's Beginnings 9 --
Chapter 3 Szell's Improvements 13 --
Chapter 4 Woodwind Section 24 --
Chapter 5 World Tour 35 --
Chapter 6 Szell's Dictates 40 --
Chapter 7 String Section 44 --
Chapter 8 Brass Section 54 --
Chapter 9 Auditions and Mavericks 64 --
Chapter 10 Conductor Wannabes 75 --
Chapter 11 Percussion Section 80 --
Chapter 12 Szell's Methods, Touring Travails 86 --
Chapter 13 Prodigies, Masterpieces, Boulez 92 --
Chapter 14 Concert Experiences 98 --
Chapter 15 Szell's Haydn and Schumann Interpretations 106 --
Chapter 16 Attire, Duty, Respect, Decorum 110 --
Chapter 17 A New Chorus Conductor 119 --
Chapter 18 Musicians' Insurrection 129 --
Chapter 19 Picketing and Resolution 133 --
Chapter 20 A Suitable Summer Site 138 --
Chapter 21 Blossom's Creators 147 --
Chapter 22 Blossom Triumph 155 --
Chapter 23 Death of the Maestro 162.
