QUARTET PLAYING,ART OF

Download or read book QUARTET PLAYING,ART OF written by David Blum and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do four instrumentalists with strong individual tastes and temperaments manage to forge a distinctive approach to the music they play? This extraordinary book ushers readers into the workshop of one of the world's most accomplished string quartets. In rich and probing conversations with their longtime friend and musicologist and conductor David Blum, the members of the Guarneri String Quartet, both individually as a group, tell what it is like to play together.