Quintet
Subtitle: five journeys toward musical fulfillment
By: David Blum ; with a foreword by Arnold Steinhardt
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ithaca, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780801437311
Subjects: Interviews; Musicians; Erlebnisbericht; Biography
Description: "The essays grew out of conversations the musicians had with the late David Blum, who was himself distinguished both as a conductor and as an author of books and articles on musical subjects". -- Jacket.
Notes: Articles originally published in The New Yorker and the New York times.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A process larger than oneself : profile of the cellist Yo-Yo-Ma; title: Walking to the pavilion : profile of the conductor Jeffrey Tate; title: A gold coin : profile of the violinist Josef Gingold; title: Going to the core : profile of the pianist Richard Goode; title: The farm girl and the stones : profile of the singer Birgit Nilsson.