Music Talks - Author's Guild

MUSIC TALKS is a collection of profiles of some of the world's most fascinating musicians, including the late Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz, and Dorothy DeLay and the very lively James Galway and Yo Yo Ma. Long out of print, yet passed from hand t- hand and read by music students as well as music lovers everywhere, MUSIC TALKS makes a wonderful gift book. "For twenty years, I’ve assigned these profiles to my students as a means of understanding themselves and their art. Epstein has a gift for making the sometimes remote world of classical music seem familiar without sacrificing its majesty and mystery." —Jonathan Baldo, Eastman School of Music “I use her book as a model for my students in teaching them both the profile form and how to provoke subjects into revealing themselves on the page.” —Megan Marshall, Emerson College, Dept. of Writing, Literature and Publishing “An illuminating introduction to the trials and triumphs of the classical musician." —New York Times Sunday Book Review “Informative, perceptive, lively and accurate.” —Gary Graffman, Curtis Institute