These intensely personal and perceptive essays explore the author's life as a pianist - practicing, performing, teaching and writing - but they could be the thoughts and …
Astor Piazzolla, brilliant, iconoclastic tango musician and composer, has become a national hero in Argentina and a cult figure for classical and jazz lovers worldwide, but only …
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) English composer, whose works include "Peter Grimes", "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra", "Billy Budd", and "Death in Venice". Samuel Barber …
Ives and Copeland did not influence each other, but they each helped to define and build a place for American music and composers in the pantheon of classical music, which had been …
For over ten years, the author was granted access to DeLay's classes and lessons at the Juilliard School and at the Aspen Music Festival/School, and this book reveals DeLay's …
Drawing on the personal recollections of the Caruso brothers, archival material preserved by the family and extensive research, this book is a rare tribute to to the man and his …
Ayke Agus recalls the very afternoon he asked her to stay after class: "With that afternoon commenced my fifteen years of bittersweet association with Jascha Heifetz through hell …
What's it like to grow up on a small farm in Illinois only to find yourself, some 20 years later, performing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House? And then to travel the …
