From Russia to the West : the musical memoirs and reminiscences of Nathan Milstein / by Nathan Milstein and Solomon Volkov ; translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: ML418.M4 A3 1991

Overview

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Milstein, Nathan, 1903-1992.
Published: New York : Limelight Editions, 1991
Locale: United States
Edition: 1. Limelight edition, Oct. 1991
Contents: Childhood in Odessa
Petersburg
Revolution and the beginning of my career
"Children of the Soviet revolution" : with Horowitz in Russia
Our adventures in Petersburg and Moscow
Horowitz and I move to the west
Eugène Ysaÿe and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium
Rachmaninoff as I knew him
Stravinsky and his interpreters
Music and politics I : Furtwängler, Toscanini, and other conductors
Fritz Kreisler
The three musketeers : Piatigorsky, Horowitz, and I
Music and politics II : David Oistrakh and other Soviets
My friend George Balanchine.
Other Authors/Editors: Volkov, Solomon.
Notes: "This edition is reprinted by arrangement with Henry Holt & Co., Inc."--Verso t.p.

Includes index.

Childhood in Odessa -- Petersburg -- Revolution and the beginning of my career -- "Children of the Soviet revolution" : with Horowitz in Russia -- Our adventures in Petersburg and Moscow -- Horowitz and I move to the west -- Eugène Ysaÿe and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium -- Rachmaninoff as I knew him -- Stravinsky and his interpreters -- Music and politics I : Furtwängler, Toscanini, and other conductors -- Fritz Kreisler -- The three musketeers : Piatigorsky, Horowitz, and I -- Music and politics II : David Oistrakh and other Soviets -- My friend George Balanchine.

Subjects: Violinists--United States--Biography. Biographies. Milstein, Nathan,--1903-1992.

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