Friends and Fiddlers
eBook - ePub

Friends and Fiddlers

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Friends and Fiddlers

About this book

Catherine Drinker Bowen was a Philadelphian with music in her veins....
Into this book she has crammed the joy, comedy, and desperation of a musical life. With the skill of a biographer she sums up the human equation in music with insatiable enthusiasm. She discourses on amateur quartets, fiddlers, wild-eyed cellists, wives who play violas and children who bang the box.
This is a book which musicians will chortle over, a book which the layman will read with dawning delight.

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Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. DEDICATION
  4. FOREWORD
  5. CHAPTER I-Introducing John, with his coat off, ready to play
  6. CHAPTER II-Background of our family orchestra
  7. CHAPTER III-On musical hunger, its causes and cures
  8. CHAPTER IV-Mœcenas and the muse
  9. CHAPTER V-A friendly art
  10. CHAPTER VI-Music and marriage and viola wives
  11. CHAPTER VII-The inner voices
  12. CHAPTER VIII-On cellists, wild and domesticated
  13. CHAPTER IX-Family music and roads that lead home to it
  14. CHAPTER X-Country music. Miss Mamie’s victory
  15. CHAPTER XI-On organs and organists
  16. CHAPTER XII-A little evening of music, or how not to do it
  17. CHAPTER XIII-And when I shall be old-
  18. REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER