Practicing A Musician's Return to Music

Name: Practicing A Musician's Return to Music
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ISBN: 9780307266156

ISBN-10: 030726615X

ISBN-13: 9780307266156

Edition: 2007

Authors: Glenn Kurtz

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The remarkable odyssey of a classical guitar prodigy who abandons his beloved instrument in defeat at the age of twenty-five, but comes back to it years later with a new kind of passion. With insight and humor, Glenn Kurtz takes us from his first lessons at a small Long Island guitar school at the age of eight, to a national television appearance backing jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, to his acceptance at the elite New England Conservatory of Music. He makes bittersweet and vivid a young man's struggle to forge an artist's life"and to become the next Segovia. And we see him after graduation, pursuing a solo career in Vienna but realizing that he has neither the ego nor the talent required to…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/19/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Glenn Kurtz holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University and has taught at San Francisco State University, California College of the Arts, and Stanford. He divides his time between San Francisco and New York. From the Hardcover edition.