Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony
7 best books like Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony (Arnold Steinhardt): The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, The Ring of the Nibelung, The Shortest Way Home, Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection, The Great Pianists, The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop, Alien III
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
| Author | Maxwell King |
| ISBN | 1419727729 |
Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. Rogers was fiercely devoted to children...
| Author | Richard Wagner |
| ISBN | 0393008673 |
Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung) and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas, translated by Andrew Porter, is an intricate...
Sean has spent twenty years in Third World war zones and natural disaster areas, fully embracing what he’d always felt was his life’s mission. But when burnout sets in, Sean is reluctantly drawn home to Belham, Massachusetts, the setting of Fay’s much-loved Shelter Me. There, he discovers that...
| Author | Toby Faber |
| ISBN | 0375760857 |
Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments; approximately six hundred survive, their quality...
| Author | Harold C. Schonberg |
| ISBN | 0671638378 |
From Mozart’s
fabulous legato that “flowed like oil” to Beethoven’s oceanlike surge, from Clara Schumann’s touch “sharp as a pencil sketch” to Rubinstein’s volcanic and sensual playing, The Great Pianists brings to life the brilliant, stylish, and sometimes eccentric personalities,...
The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop
| Author | John Marchese |
| ISBN | 0060012676 |
How does a simple piece of wood become a violin, the king of instruments? Watch and find out as Eugene Drucker, a member of the world–renowned Emerson String Quartet, commissions Sam Zygmuntowicz, a Brooklyn craftsman, to make him a new violin. As he tells this extraordinary story, journalist John...
Audible is bringing William Gibson’s uncovered Alien III script to life in audio for the first time, to mark the 40th Anniversary of the birth of the Alien franchise.
Alongside a full cast, Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen reprise their iconic roles as Corporal Hicks and Bishop from the...
