The Late Starters Orchestra
By: Ari L. Goldman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781565129924
Subjects: Recreation; Anecdotes; Instruction and study; Older people; Ensemble playing; Music as recreation; Music; Cello; Music and older people; Orchestral musicians; Practicing (Music); New York Late-Starters String Orchestra; Stringed instrument players
Description: In a cluttered room in an abandoned coat factory in lower Manhattan, the Late Starters Orchestra comes together each week to make music. All have come late to music or come back to it after a long absence. In this bona fide amateur string orchestra, Goldman pursues his lifelong dream of playing the cello. Goldman takes us along to LSO rehearsals and his son's Suzuki lessons; he explores history's greatest cellists and attempts to understand what motivates his fellow late starters.
Table of contents: title: Tuning up. The fiddler ; The cello; title: Overtures. The next chapter ; Origins ; Love and marriage; title: Fathers and sons and orchestras. Downtown symphony ; Milt ; Suzuki ; Music moms and dads ; The InterSchool Orchestras of New York ; Avery Fisher Hall ; The oldest kid in the orchestra; title: The New York Late-Starters String Orchestra. Conducting ; Nishanti ; Dan ; Joe ; LSO and Suzuki ; The East London Late Starters Orchestra ; The Really Terrible Orchestra ; Shira; title: Old and new. Bar mitzvah ; Practicing ; The view from the audience ; Back in the saddle ; Music camp British style ; Aaron ; Geraldine ; Ed, Colin, and Chris ; The maestros and me ; Music camp American style; title: The beauty of an open string. Happy birthday ; Finale ; Grand finale.