Here is one of the most enjoyable and illuminating books ever published for the music lover, a feast of delightful anecdotes that reveal the all-too-human side of the great composers…

This lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947–the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world–is [a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies…

Martin Simmond’s father tells him, Never trust a musician when he speaks about love. The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy…