Book description
An engaging blend of memoir and music history, Distant Melodies explores the changing ideas of home, displacement, and return through the lives and chamber music of four composers.
How does music played and heard over many years inform one’s sense of home? Writing during the COVID-19 pandemic, when travel is…
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