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050 00 $aML417.A23$bA3 1996
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100 1 $aAdams, Noah.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87836527
245 10 $aPiano lessons :$bmusic, love & true adventures /$cNoah Adams.
260 $aNew York :$bDelacorte Press,$c1996.
263 $a9604
300 $axix, 250 pages ;$c22 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-250).
505 00 $tJanuary: Why does a fifty-one-year-old man decide he has to have a piano? --$tFebruary: An extrafine Taos morning and a ten-thousand-dollar phone call --$tMarch: Getting past middle C with a computer looking over my shoulder --$tApril: The oldest piano in the world plus the sweet inspirations of rock and roll --$tMay: John Grisham? I've met him. He's rich. Bet he can't play the piano --$tJune: The attack of the humidity monster and a songwriter's million-selling moment --$tJuly: Throwing a firefly to Kansas could be easier than learning "Misty" --$tAugust: I'm riding this piano bicycle through the puddles, and there's a big wet streak up my back --$tSeptember: An assignment in Ireland, two weeks off in Maine. What's a piano? --$tOctober: Salvation at a music camp, but they make me play in front of people --$tNovember: A Vermont guy who loves free pianos and a New York teacher who adores Steinways --$tDecember: My wife falls in love with a piano player in a tuxedo, and the night is still young.
520 $aPiano Lessons is Noah Adams's delightful and moving chronicle of his fifty-second year - a year already filled with long, fast workdays and too little spare time - as he answers at last a lifelong call: to learn to play the piano.
520 8 $aThe twelve monthly chapters span from January - when after decades of growing affection for keyboard artists and artisans he finally plunges in and buys a piano - through December, when as a surprise Christmas present for his wife he dresses in a tuxedo and, in flickering candlelight, snow falling outside the windows, he attempts their favorite piece of music, a difficult third-year composition he's been struggling with in secret to get to this very moment.
520 8 $aAmong the up-tempo triumphs and unexpected setbacks, Noah Adams interweaves the rich history and folklore that surround the piano. And along the way, set between the ragtime rhythms and boogie-woogie beats, there are encounters with - and insights from - masters of the keyboard, from Glenn Gould and Leon Fleisher ("I was a bit embarrassed," he writes; "telling Leon Fleisher about my ambitions for piano lessons is like telling Julia Child about plans to make toast in the morning") to Dr.
520 8 $aJohn and Tori Amos.
520 8 $aAs a storyteller, Noah Adams has perfect pitch. In the foreground here, like a familiar melody, are the challenges of learning a complex new skill as an adult, when enthusiasm meets the necessary repetition of tedious scales at the end of a twelve-hour workday. Lingering in the background, like a subtle bass line, are the quiet concerns of how we spend our time and how our priorities shift as we proceed through life.
520 8 $aFor Piano Lessons is really an adventure story filled with obstacles to overcome and grand leaps forward, eccentric geniuses and quiet moments of predawn practice, as Noah Adams travels across country and keyboard, pursuing his dream and keeping the rhythm.
600 10 $aAdams, Noah.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87836527
650 0 $aPianists$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109349
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