Ebook: A passionate journey: a memoir

Part I. The early years -- Early life. Mr Hurlimann ; Wanting to be a chamber musician ; New York and the Institute of Musical Art ; The discipline of chamber music -- Naumburg competition -- Army years -- Part II. Quartet life -- The Juilliard String Quartet is born. Tempi and contemporary music ; Playing in a string quartet -- Mentors. Felix Salmond ; Eugene Lehner -- Family. Lucy ; Family travels ; Traveling with children ; Family concerts -- Musical journeys. Germany and Hanns Eisler ; Frankfurt ; Italy ; Russia and Gerda ; South America and Lucy ; Aspen, Colorado -- Tools of the trade. The Strad -- Part III. Relationships -- Composers and recordings. Arnold Schoenberg ; Elliott Carter ; Aaron Copland and Lukas Foss ; Béla Bartók and Peter Bartók ; Columbia Records ; Glenn Gould ; Grammy Awards -- Luminaries. Oscar Kokoschka ; Willem de Kooning ; Albert Einstein ; Dudley Moore ; Leonard Bernstein ; Menuhin, Ricci, and Stern ; Itzhak Perlman ; Seiji Ozawa ; Modern Jazz Quartet, John Lewis, Billy Taylor ; The Smothers Brothers television show -- Part IV. Looking back -- Renaissance Mann. Teaching ; Conducting ; Composing -- Musings -- Leaving the Juilliard String quartet after 51 years -- Part V. Remarks from coaching sessions -- Michigan State University -- Part VI. Letters to Lisa -- Selected letters: Asia tour Spring 1961 -- Part VII. Coda -- Creative expressions -- Photo gallery -- Aspen Institute Lecture: The cold war between Apollonia and Dionysia -- Aspen Institute Lecture: Mencius and the late Beethoven String Quartet -- Excerpt from Allan Kozinn interview -- Juilliard String Quartet family tree.;"Growing up as an outdoorsy, nature-loving child in Portland, Oregon, Robert Mann wanted to be a forest ranger, but it was violin lessons--and his parents' encouragement--that ultimately launched him on a remarkable journey that would span a lifetime and five continents as he pursued his passion for classical music as a violinist, composer, conductor, and teacher. In this fascinating and far-ranging memoir, he looks back at the struggles and triumphs of that journey, as well as the unique insights and experiences he's gained along the way. From their beginnings in 1947, the Juilliard String Quartet set out to play new music as if it had been composed long ago, and to play a classical piece as if it had just been written. At first, the fledging combo struggled to compete with the more established European string quartets, while also coping with the inevitable difficulties of trying to blend four singular personalities and talents into a harmonious whole, but by the time Mann retired from the group some fifty-one years later, the Juilliard String Quartet had played close to six thousand concerts on every continent except Africa and Antarctica and become an enduring, beloved institution in American music. They won three Grammys for their recordings, while sharing their distinctive sound with such notable figures as Glenn Gould, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and even Albert Einstein. A Passionate Journey is a collection of both spoken and written words in the form of essays, letters, lectures, and transcribed interviews from various times in his life. Together they offer an engrossing glimpse into a life filled with musical milestones and into the fascinating mind of a musical giant"--Amazon.