All memoir articles
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ReviewBook review: Collaborations: Reflections on 50 Years of Working with Composers
Pwyll ap Siôn reads the memoirs of Irvine Arditti, new music specialist and founder of the eponymous quartet
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ReviewBook review: Two Violins, One Viola, a Cello and Me
Anne Inglis reviews the memoir of classical music agent Sonia Simmenauer, and her encounters with string quartets over the years
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Focus‘Music was their lifeline’: Excerpt from Janet Horvath’s new Holocaust memoir
Author and cellist Janet Horvath presents an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir The Cello Still Sings: A Generational Story of the Holocaust and of the Transformative Power of Music
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BlogsDesmond Cecil: My time with violinist Max Rostal
Excerpt from Desmond Cecil’s newly published memoir: ‘The Wandering Civil Servant of Stradivarius’
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NewsViolinist Min-Jin Kym to write memoir about stolen-and-recovered Stradivarius
The £1.38m instrument was taken from a sandwich bar at London’s Euston Station in 2010 and recovered in 2013
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ArticleViolinist Min-Jin Kym performs Beethoven on her 1696 Stradivarius
Min-Jin Kym plays the opening of Beethoven's Violin Concerto on her 1696 Stradivarius with Andrew Davis conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra in a recording session for Sony Classics in 2006.Kym is to write a memoir called ‘Gone’ about the theft of her 1696 Stradivarius from a Pret a Manger ...