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Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto
Joshua Cohen
其他書名
A Novel
出版Fugue State Press, 2007
主題Fiction / GeneralFiction / LiteraryMusic / Printed Music / Strings
ISBN18791931679781879193161
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tORlAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Fiction. This brilliant first novel is a portrait of an artist at the end of an art form. The elderly Jewish-Hungarian composer Schneidermann, who survived a musical education, survived the war, survived Europe, survived the neglect of all his music, finally and suddenly vanishes during a movie matinee on the Upper West Side of New York. The novel begins with Schneidermann's friend--his last friend, his only friend--the violin virtuoso Laster, onstage at Carnegie Hall. He has finished playing the first movement of Schneidermann's last composition, his Violin Concerto. At this point he is supposed tobegin his cadenza...his solo. Instead, he drops his instrument and lifts his voice, delivering the text of this novel unto the audience, held captive through night into morning only by the spiel.