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Title: Piano Lessons: Music, Love, & True Adventures by Noah Adams ISBN: 0-385-31821-9 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.81 (36 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wish I had the Steinway that inspired the book.
Comment: This book is about Noah Adams' decision to purchase a Steinway and learn to play. This is not a how-to book, but it will provide inspiration to the adult beginner, and it will give you ideas and insight on certain pieces. After reading this book, I went out & got the sheet music for Robert Schumann's Traumerei, which Adams describes lovingly in the introduction (and refers to later in the text). Adams' writing resonates with a love of music, a love of the piano, and an emotional investment in learning to play. The book contains anecdotes about his adventures at piano camp in Vermont as well as tidbits about classical composers and music. It's an uplifting read for a music lover, particularly one who dabbles in classical numbers (although it might be too light & fluffy for a serious, well-trained & educated musician -- not falling into that category, I'm not sure).
Rating: 4
Summary: Inspired and inspiring book for would-be pianists.
Comment: Several factors came together to bring this book to my attention. I have listened to Noah Adams measured tones on NPRs All Things Considered for years. I studied piano reluctantly for fifteen of my first nineteen years on Earth.(Jewish fathers always want their sons to be doctors by day and concert pianists by night)But most importantly, at the age of forty, with years of neglecting the piano behind me, I had almost decided to buy one again and not only try, belatedly, to justify my expensive lessons but also inflict something similar, but less obsessive, on my own son.Mr Adams book is a beautiful memoir, gentle and ardent. It is a fine blend of history, anecdote, experience and passion. A fifty year old man, successful and assured takes on a challenge - to learn to play the piano - and brings us, month by month, through trepidation, irritation and confidence and joy to the emotional ending that leaves one wishing the book could be longer. I will buy that piano this month.
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth the struggle
Comment: Since I'm in my forties and just bought a digital piano to learn and play music for the first time in my life, I thought it would be interesting to read this book for some tips and inspiration. I did, however, find it quite difficult to get into. Perhaps this is partly because I am not American and also because I don't know much about either the places the author mentions or most of the names he drops. But I persevered, and am glad I did, because although I didn't get what I expected I did enjoy reading about the experiences of going to a music camp and the authors encounters, conversations and interviews with various amateur and professional musicians. These were the best part for me, and especially to explore what making music means.
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Title: The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier by Thaddeus Carhart, Thad Carhart ISBN: 0375758623 Publisher: Random House Trade Pub. Date: 12 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Far Appalachia: Following the New River North by Noah Adams ISBN: 0385320132 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Playing the Piano for Pleasure. by Charles Cooke ISBN: 083713224X Publisher: Greenwood Press Reprint Pub. Date: 06 January, 1971 List Price(USD): $52.95 |
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Title: The Flyers: In Search of Wilbur & Orville Wright by Noah Adams ISBN: 1400049121 Publisher: Crown Publishers Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Piano Pieces by Russell Sherman ISBN: 0374525005 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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