A fiddler's tale how Hollywood and Vivaldi discovered me /
Louis Kaufman with Annette Kaufman ; foreword by Jim Svejda.
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, (c)2003.
- 1 online resource (xv, 462 pages) : illustrations.
Some online versions lack accompanying media packaged with the printed version.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Bucharest to Portland and back -- I become a violinist -- New York and Kneisel -- More Kneisel-Auer--graduation--chamber music -- Musical Art Quartet is launched, I become an art collector -- Musical Art Quartet -- Baltimore and Capri with the Musical Art Quartet -- Paris!!!!! -- Musical Art Quartet Italian concerts--encore Paris -- "The real thing" : romance and Annette -- Together in Europe : our honeymoon -- Hometown triumph and California here we come -- The goal-Los Angeles! -- The Hollywood golden years -- Another aspect of Hollywood : art and music (William Grant Still) -- Bernard Herrmann, another view, Anthony Collins -- Concert opportunities--Works Progress Administration (WPA) -- Vivaldi discovers me--we meet Francis Poulenc -- En route to France via Honolulu -- En route to Venice via Zurich (Paris-visit with Poulenc) -- Unfinished business--meeting Gian Francesco Malipiero -- Brussels con moto--fateful meeting with Paul Collaer -- More Poulenc, more Brussels : Paris premiere -- Introducing Vivaldi to Boston and New York (first American Vivaldi festival) -- Unexpected North African tour -- We meet Samuel Barber, San Francisco -- South American adventures (1952) -- Utrecht recording, war crimes--search for Spohr -- Paris the survivor--Maryan -- London adventures in music and art -- Northern exposure, Sweden-Denmark--Dag Wirén -- Miracle in Milan--Richard Tucker--recording Torelli in Paris -- Los Angeles
Companion CD contains 13 recordings from 1942-1952.