Weight in the fingertips : a musical odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the world stage /

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Includes index.Prelude -- Bach Sound, Spoon Rhythm -- Shpilka -- Down and Out in Vienna and Rome -- Weight in the Fingertips -- Interlude : Clara Wieck-Schumann, Concerto in A Minor and Sonata in G Minor -- Pink Flamingoes -- Interlude : Maurice Ravel, Scarbo; Billy Childs, Pursuit -- The Inevitability of Leon -- Rhapsody in Blue, Russian Style -- The Medicis Live On (or, How I Met Shpigelmacher Again) -- Interlude: What's So Great about Beethoven Anyway? Ludwig van Beethoven, Eroica Variations -- A Return to Italy -- Eat the World -- JFK-LAX -- Interlude : Maya Miro Johnson, "Manuscripts Don't Burn" -- Voices of Beijing -- Alone, a White Sail Gleams -- Postlude : Yellow and Blue."A memoir offering powerful insights into the role of music in a world of conflict, change, and hope for a better tomorrow"--