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A Fiddler's Tale How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me

Title
A Fiddler's Tale [electronic resource] : How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me / Louis Kaufman with Annette Kaufman ; foreword by Jim Svejda.
Author
Kaufman, Louis, 1905-1994.
Publication
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Kaufman, Annette.
  • Project Muse.
Description
1 online resource (xv, 462 p. :) : ill.
Uniform Title
  • Fiddler's Tale (Online)
  • Book collections on Project MUSE.
Alternative Title
Fiddler's Tale (Online)
Subject
  • Kaufman, Louis, 1905-1994
  • Violinists > United States > Biography
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes filmography (407-411), discography (p. 412-[445]), bibliographical references (p. 446-448), and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record.
Contents
Bucharest to Portland and back -- I become a violinist -- New York and Kneisel -- More Kneisel--Auer--graduation--chamber music -- The Musical Art Quartet is launched : I become an art collector -- The Musical Art Quartet -- In Baltimore and Capri with the Musical Art Quartet -- Paris! -- Italian concerts : encore Paris -- "The real thing" : romance and Annette -- Together in Europe : our honeymoon -- Hometown triumph and California here we come -- The goal : Los Angeles! -- Hollywood : the golden years -- Another aspect of Hollywood--art & music : William Grant Still--Darius Milhaud -- Bernard Herrmann--another view : other friends, Anthony Collins -- Concert opportunities--Works Progress Administration (WPA): Music, art, theater, trail-blazing -- Vivaldi discovers me--we meet Francis Poulenc--historic recordings -- En route to France via Honolulu -- En route to Venice via Zurich (Paris-visit with Poulenc) -- Unfinished business : meeting Malipiero -- Brussels con moto : Paris recordings--arrival in Brussels--fateful meeting with Paul Collaer -- More Poulenc, more Brussels : Paris premiere -- Introducing Vivaldi to America -- Unexpected North African tour: Paris friends -- We meet Samuel Barber in San Francisco -- South American adventures -- Utrecht recordings--war crimes--search for Spohr -- Paris--the survivor--Maryan -- London adventures in music and art -- Northern exposure -- Miracle in Milan : Recording in Paris -- Return to Los Angeles Korngold memorial concert -- Adventures behind the iron curtain -- Recordings at last--the Lebduska mystery -- Cousin Mico Kaufman, sculptor -- The dybbuk--a devil to produce -- From Sicily to Tahiti -- Hazardous travel -- Postscript / by Annette Kaufman.
OCLC
ssj0000968904
Author
Kaufman, Louis, 1905-1994.
Title
A Fiddler's Tale [electronic resource] : How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me / Louis Kaufman with Annette Kaufman ; foreword by Jim Svejda.
Imprint
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography
Includes filmography (407-411), discography (p. 412-[445]), bibliographical references (p. 446-448), and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Note
Description based on print version record.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Kaufman, Annette.
Project Muse.
LCCN
2002010217
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