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Violin Dreams
by Steinhardt, Arnold
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0618368922
- ISBN 13
- 9780618368921
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About This Item
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Good+, bound in full black cloth; with a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. Some rubbing and edge wear to dust jacket. Some staining to boards. Text is clean and unmarked. 8vo. 8 1/2"h x 6 1/4"w. 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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- Bookseller
- Evolving Lens Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16430
- Title
- Violin Dreams
- Author
- Steinhardt, Arnold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0618368922
- ISBN 13
- 9780618368921
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- music, history
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