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Author Starer, Robert, author.

Title Continuo : a life in music / Robert Starer.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [1987]
©1987

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection CA Martin  780 St28Bs 1987    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 206 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Austrian Americans lcdgt
Americans lcdgt
Men lcdgt
Jews lcdgt
Composers lcdgt
Music teachers lcdgt
University and college faculty members lcdgt
Contents Pianos and Vienna -- Becoming a musician in Jerusalem -- An Arab opera -- Hermann Jadlowker -- Juilliard and accompanying -- William Steinberg -- Martha Graham -- Composer and librettist -- Audiences -- Scriabin -- Ballet, Broadway and television -- Music and the young.
Summary In 1937, Robert Starer was enrolled in the State Academy of Music in Vienna, at thirteen one of the youngest students ever admitted. In 1938, after the German invasion of Austria, the child prodigy was expelled because he was a Jew. A few weeks later his parents wisely sent him to Palestine, where he survived for the next nine years by his musical wits, taking odd jobs accompanying singers, transcribing music, giving piano lessons and learning how to play the harp simply because the Jerusalem Symphony lacked a harpist. During the war Mr. Starer served in the British army, and in 1948 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a teacher at Juilliard and later at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Today he is a well-known composer whose work has been performed and recorded by symphony orchestras throughout the world. He has also written for the Broadway musical theater, television and films, and has composed works for several dance companies. Continuo is divided into twelve chapters, each focusing on a particular period of the author's life or on a performer or musician with whom he has worked--among others, Martha Graham, William Steinberg, Herbert Ross and Itzhak Perlman. Astonishingly, Mr. Starer turns out to be as elegant a writer as he is a composer: clear, spare and vivid in his portrayal of characters and description of events. As a result, this memoir is a joy to read, whether the subject is music, personalities, triumphs and failures, audiences or memories of childhood [Publisher description].
Subject Starer, Robert.
Starer, Robert. (OCoLC)fst00068324
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Composers. (OCoLC)fst00871620
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
ISBN 0394555155
9780394555157

 
    
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