Violin Dreams

Violin Dreams
by Arnold Steinhardt

Violin Dreams
List Price: $15.95
Our Price: $5.99
You Save: $9.96 (62%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $5.58 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions


(Click here)
Buy this book at online book store in your country
Canada | UK | Germany | France

Book Summary Information

Author: Arnold Steinhardt
Edition: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2008-10-15
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Mariner Books

Book Reviews of Violin Dreams

Book Review: Excellent book!
Summary: 5 Stars

Violin Dreams is an awesome read for anyone who plays the violin. It's sort of a memoir, but discusses all the important players and pieces of repertoire that are important to the serious player. However, it's written in an interesting, entertaining way -- not like some that are just lists of accomplishments.

Summary of Violin Dreams

?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 Quartet, brings warmth, wit, and fascinating insider details to the story of his lifelong obsession with the violin, that most seductive and stunningly beautiful instrument. His story is rich with vivid scenes: the terror inflicted by his early violin teachers, the sensual pleasure involved in the pursuit of the perfect violin, the charged atmosphere of high-level competitions. Steinhardt describes Bach?s Chaconne as the holy grail for the solo violin, and he illuminates, from the perspective of an ardent owner of a great Storioni violin, the history and mysteries of the renowned Italian violinmakers.
Violin Dreams includes a remarkable CD recording of Steinhardt performing Bach?s Partita in D Minor as a young violinist forty years ago and playing the same piece especially for this book. A conversation between the author and Alan Alda on the differences between the two performances is included in the liner notes.

Instruments & Performers Books

Book Subjects
Most talked about in Instruments & Performers Books
Instrument of Worship Volume One ImageInstrument of Worship Volume One
Benson Records; Paperback; Book
Season of Peace: Guitar ImageSeason of Peace: Guitar
GIA Publications; Published: 1993-06; Paperback; Book
Price in other shops: $9.95
Amazing Love: Piano ImageAmazing Love: Piano
Genevox Music Group; Published: 1994-07; Paperback; Book
Price in other shops: $11.95
Majestic Trumpet Trios Christmas: Volume 2 ImageMajestic Trumpet Trios Christmas: Volume 2
Majestic Music Publications; Published: 1996-09; Paperback; Book
Price in other shops: $19.95
Majestic Brass Quartets: Volume One ImageMajestic Brass Quartets: Volume One
Majestic Music Publications; Published: 1996-03; Paperback; Book
Price in other shops: $24.95
101 Ways to Evangelize: 88 Keys Image101 Ways to Evangelize: 88 Keys
Intrada Music; Paperback; Book
Keyboard Duets for Organ & Piano ImageKeyboard Duets for Organ & Piano
Hope Publishing Company (IL); Paperback; Book
Glory Forever: Medium Range ImageGlory Forever: Medium Range
Alexandria House; Paperback; Book
Glory Forever: Full Range ImageGlory Forever: Full Range
Alexandria House; Published: 1991-03; Paperback; Book
Price in other shops: $5.95
Beethoven`s Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion ImageBeethoven`s Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion
by Dr. Charles Rosen, Charles Rosen
Yale University Press; Published: 2001-11-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $26.73
Price in other shops: $35.00
Similar Books and other products
The Technique of Violin Playing: The Joachim Method (Dover Books on Music) ImageThe Technique of Violin Playing: The Joachim Method (Dover Books on Music)
by Karl Courvoisier
Dover Publications; Dover Publications; Published: 2006-08-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.53
Price in other shops: $6.95
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession ImageThis Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin
Plume/Penguin; Published: 2007-08-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.49
Price in other shops: $16.00
Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony ImageIndivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony
by Arnold Steinhardt
Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Published: 2000-06-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.17
Price in other shops: $17.00
Violin Mastery: Interviews with Heifetz, Auer, Kreisler and Others (Dover Books on Music) ImageViolin Mastery: Interviews with Heifetz, Auer, Kreisler and Others (Dover Books on Music)
Dover Publications; Dover Publications; Published: 2006-04-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.78
Price in other shops: $9.95
Book store. Illustrated catalog of books on different categories