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A fiddler's tale : how Hollywood and Vivaldi discovered me / Louis Kaufman with Annette Kaufman ; foreword by Jim Svejda.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML418 .K28 A3 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaufman, Louis, 1905-1994.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kaufman, Louis, 1905-1994.
- Kaufman, Louis.
- Violinists--United States--Biography.
- Violinists.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 462 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Bucharest to Portland and back
- I become a violinist
- New York and Kneisel
- More Kneisel
- Auer
- graduation
- chamber music
- The Musical Art Quartet is launched : I become an art collector
- The Musical Art Quartet
- In Baltimore and Capri with the Musical Art Quartet
- Paris!
- Italian concerts : encore Paris
- "The real thing" : romance and Annette
- Together in Europe : our honeymoon
- Hometown triumph and California here we come!
- The goal : Los Angeles
- Hollywood : the golden years
- Another aspect of Hollywood
- art and music : William Grant Still
- Darius Milhaud
- Bernard Herrmann
- another view : other friends, Anthony Collins
- Herrmann's rebirth and apotheosis
- Concert opportunities
- Works Progress Administration : music
- art
- theater
- trail-blazing
- Vivaldi discovers me
- we meet Francis Poulenc
- historic recordings
- En route to France via Honolulu
- En route to Venice via Zurich
- after visiting Poulenc
- Unfinished business : meeting Malipiero
- Brussels con moto : Paris recordings
- arrival in Brussels
- fateful meeting with Paul Collaer
- More Poulenc, more Brussels : Paris premiere of Il cimento dell'armonica e dell'invenzione
- Introducing Vivaldi to America : Opus 9 reveals another masterpiece
- the Paris premier of La cetra
- Unexpected North African tour : Paries friends
- We meet Samuel Barber in San Francisco
- drama in Holland : friendships with artists
- South American adventures
- Utrecht recordings
- war crimes
- search for Spohr
- Paris
- the survivor
- Maryan
- London adventures in music and art
- Northern exposure
- Miracle in Milan : recording in Paris
- Return to Los Angeles : Korngold Memorial Concert
- Adventures behind the iron curtain
- Recordings at last
- the Lebduska mystery
- Cousin Mico Kaufman, sculptor
- The dybbuk
- a devil to produce
- From Sicily to Tahiti
- Hazardous travel
- Postscript / by Annette Kaufman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-448), discography (pages 412-[445]), and index.
- ISBN:
- 0299183807
- OCLC:
- 68364517
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