Title:
Perfect pitch : an autobiography / Nicolas Slonimsky ; edited by Electra Slonimsky Yourke.
Author:
Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995.
Yourke, Electra.
Publication Information:
New York : Schirmer Trade Books, 2002.
Call Number:
ML423.S57 A3 2002
Abstract:
Slonimsky's 1988 autobiography, expanded in 2002 by his daughter Electra Yourke, tells the fascinating story of his life as pianist, composer, conductor, and musical lexicographer.
Edition:
New expanded edition.
ISBN:
9780825672743
Physical Description:
318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
General Note:
Composers, Jewish - United States - biography
Contents:
St Petersburg -- My grandfather invented the telegraph -- Joyless youth, joyful revolution -- Exodus -- Paris -- Rochester -- Koussevitzkiana -- Boston beginnings -- Three places in New England -- Time out -- Disaster in Hollywood -- Puella -- Lofty baton to lowly pen -- Jailed friend -- Exotic journeys -- Interpolation: Grossmutterakkord -- Back in the family fold -- America loves Russia -- I, diaskeuast! -- Fame and fortune -- Future of my past -- California, here I come -- Age of absurdity
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