登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
Am I Too Loud?
Gerald Moore
其他書名
Memoirs of an Accompanist
出版Macmillan, 1962
主題Music / General
ISBN02419001909780241900192
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=i2UIAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Gerald Moore, the distinguished English musician who for almost a half century has accompanied the world's great singers and instrumentalists, gives here a brilliant solo performance as a writer. This book abounds with humorous anecdotes, from the author's days as a young man falling in with his alcoholic landlord to World War II when the fire guard in charge of protecting music manuscripts turned out to be a pyromaniac. Mostly, Moore's autobiography is full of deep and sensitive appreciation for concert performers as well as some excoriation for prima donnas and ignorant music patrons. He devotes a chapter to the late Kathleen Ferrier and her contralto of "unearthly nobility." Moore provides tales of violinist Yehudi Menuhin, English tenor Joan Coates, Danish tenor Aksel Schiøtz, Hungarian violinist Josef Szigeti, Spanish cellist Pablo Casals, and many others.