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Violin Dreams
by Steinhardt, Arnold
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0618368922
- ISBN 13
- 9780618368921
- Seller
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GREENWICH, New York, United States
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About This Item
2006. Houghton Mifflin. 8vo. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine DJ. New. CD included.
Synopsis
“A rapturous, witty, and passionate memoir ... Violin Dreams is not only the story of a man becoming an artist, it’s a history of twentieth-century music.” — John Guare, Tony Award–winning playwright Arnold Steinhardt, for more than forty years an international soloist and the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, brings warmth, wit, and fascinating insider details to the story of his lifelong obsession with the violin, that most seductive and stunningly beautiful instrument. His story is rich with vivid scenes: the terror inflicted by his early violin teachers, the sensual pleasure involved in the pursuit of the perfect violin, the charged atmosphere of high-level competitions. Steinhardt describes Bach’s Chaconne as the holy grail for the solo violin, and he illuminates, from the perspective of an ardent owner of a great Storioni violin, the history and mysteries of the renowned Italian violinmakers. Violin Dreams includes a remarkable CD recording of Steinhardt performing Bach’s Partita in D Minor as a young violinist forty years ago and playing the same piece especially for this book. A conversation between the author and Alan Alda on the differences between the two performances is included in the liner notes.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cottage Street Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- K1180
- Title
- Violin Dreams
- Author
- Steinhardt, Arnold
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0618368922
- ISBN 13
- 9780618368921
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- This edition first published
- October 4, 2006
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