Book description
“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…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Violin Dreams as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This memoir by a brilliant violinist opens doors to a deeper understanding of the struggle to create great music at the highest level. The enclosed cd, which features two recordings of the formidable Bach chaconne for solo violin, one by the author as a young man, the other decades later, is a special treat--and challenge. If you can hear the difference between the two recordings, you understand the book.
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