Wild Harmonies: A Life of Music and Wolves
by Helene Grimaud
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Author: Helene GrimaudEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-09-07
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
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Book Review: A teenage girl's diary
Summary: 3 Stars
Perhaps I've just read too many books by Peter Mathiessen or Farley Mowat, but this book annoyed the daylights out of me. I hate to be unkind to Grimaud, because I get quite taken by her artistry at the piano, but this read like a teenage girl's diary, and a very indulged teenage girl at that. More often than not, be it with artists or performers or sports players or whomever in the public eye, you're better off not knowing too much about them. In some cases like Bill Evans, it makes compositions like Turn Out The Stars all that more heartbreaking, in other cases like this book you'd rather just howl at the moon.
There is a story to be told about music, about wolves (see Paul Horn's recordings) about humanity that reconnects us with the planet and eliminates the artificiality introduced into human thinking post Aristotle and particularly post DesCartes. But that mystical aerie faerie stuff reduces otherwise brilliant and insightful humans into Tori Amos like knuckleheads, and unfortunately I wish I had never read this. I'll have to steel my nerve to focus on listening to her new Beethoven disc, hoping that however she channels her sympathy for the wolves wherever she lives that that stays apart from the great German, a bit of a wolf himself, who checked his fur at the door and got on with it at the piano bench.
Summary of Wild Harmonies: A Life of Music and Wolves
Success as a classically trained pianist came early for HŽlne Grimaud, who made her first recording at age fifteen. But in the following years, despite sellout concerts around the world, she still felt as if something was missing-until an extraordinary meeting with a she-wolf changed her perspective and her world.Music Books
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