Customer Review: Having known Mr. Morgenstern from years ago in college as well as attending Transylvania Music Camp in Brevard NC with him, I believe he "Tells it like it is" both in his memoirs & in the state & future of music in America. His experiences in his life combined with a long list of... more info
Customer Review: As a member of the next generation of professional classical musicians, I found myself reacting to Blair's stories with a mixture of sympathy and exasperation. Oh, the scene where she is asked to play the same excerpt three times in a row, only to discover later that she had been playing a wrong... more info
Customer Review: "How and why did Western classical music develop such deep roots [in China]? This is a question that we [Sheila Melvin and Jindong Cai] have often asked ourselves-and been asked-and it is this that we set out to answer in writing Rhapsody in Red: How Western Classical Music Became Chinese."more info
Customer Review: Grant's book is an interesting, well-written read. He flexes the muscles of his vocabulary - I suggest reading along with a pocket dictionary, as I guarantee he'll throw in some $5000 words that common parlance does not normally encounter. That aside, the book is a fascinating account of music... more info
Customer Review: We miss Harold Schonberg to this day. His lively and insightful writing about music and musicians has not been duplicated or replaced by anyone. That isn't to say there are not good writers on music, there certainly are, but none fill that niche for the general reader that Schonberg filled. It was... more info
Customer Review: I am in the process of writing a novel in which Handel is a character. I have read at least a dozen books on him and his work, and with Ms. Van Til's book, I found I was looking at Handel in a different light. While several books explore Handel's music, or why he wrote what he did based on his... more info