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Works To Live By
POEMS (continued)
Archibald MacLeish
“Bahamas,” “The Learned Men,” “Epitaph for John McCutcheon,” “Calypso’s Island,” “Thunderhead,” “What Any Lover Learns,” “The Old Man to the Lizard,” “They Come No More, Those Words, Those Finches,” “The Two Priests,” “Captivity of the Fly,” “An Eternity,” “Poem in Prose,” “The Snowflake Which Is Now and Hence Forever,” “The Rape of the Swan,” “Speech to the Scholars”
Arthur Rubinstein
My Young Years
Incredible stories-this is like having dinner with one of the greatest raconteurs in history. What was it like to be a genius who knew everyone at the height of the classical and social worlds, with a perfect memo- ry, and who was also a lot of fun?
Arthur Rubinstein
My Many Years
This supremely assimilated virtuoso who spoke six languages and could play anything has astonishing stories about his attempted suicide, his decision
to become a piano teacher, his slumming with the Rothschilds. You can’t put it down.
Gary Graffman
I Really Should be Practicing: Reflections on the Pleasures and Perils of Playing Piano in Public Graffman is very funny and has marvelous stories of his life in music, as well as serious reflections on compulsive practicing.
Katie Hafner
A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould’s Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano
There are many wonderful books about pianos,
but Hafner really makes it fascinating, and she understands what makes a piano great.
Perri Knize
Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey
You follow the writer from ignorance to gradual awakening to complete realization of what gives a piano character. Much more fascinating and somehow more “edge of the seat” than it sounds.
Tim Page
The Glenn Gould Reader
Gould was witty, unique, brilliant, eccentric,
tragic, and funny. He developed new ways of think- ing about music, while being extremely entertaining.
Collected Poems (especially New Poems 1951)
Richard Wilbur
“A Courtyard Thaw,” “A Summer Morning,” “First Snow in Alsace,” “Parable,” “On the Marginal Way,” “Complaint,” “Seed Leaves,” “Walking To Sleep,” “Running”
Collected Poems: 1943-2004
James Merrill
Divine Comedies Nights and Days
MUSIC
Russell Sherman
Piano Pieces
The first half of the book features brilliant biographies of each finger, and extraordinary, contrarian flashes of genius. This is a sampling of the philosophic brilliance which Sherman and his wife, Wha-Kyung Byun, have brought to polishing some of the greatest virtuosi of the concert world, such as Marc-André Hamelin, Livan, and George Li.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Mozart
Intense and brilliant, this lyric and exhilarating plunge into the biography of creativity sets a new standard for how to think about music.