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5 reviews
Humphrey Burton

Anchor, 1995

It was great!
It took me about 2 months to finish reading it, not because it wasn't a page-turner, but because it was a long book and also I'd been busy. It was actually a great page-turner. I could read on and on for 5-7 hours without a break. Bernstein's personal letters to his friends and colleagues, including Aaron Copland, his thesis at Harvard, etc. were all very inspiring to read. There were quite a ...

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Humphrey Burton

Piper, 2001

William Walton--The Romantic Loner: A Centenary Portrait Album
Humphrey Burton, Maureen Murray

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

Coinciding with the 2002 centenary celebrations of the great British composer, this volume tells the story of William Walton's life in the style of a film documentary. Nearly 500 illustrations and photographs are interspersed with narrative text, reminiscences, anecdotes, and liberal quotations from Walton's letters and interviews.

Yehudi Menuhin: A Life

2 reviews
Humphrey Burton

Northeastern, 2000

Draws upon contemporary sources
Yehudi Menuhin is among the finest violinists of the twentieth century. Humphrey Burton's definitive biography of this outstanding musician begins with Yehudi's birth in New York to Russian Jewish immigrants. A prodigiously gifted youth, he gave his first solo recital at the age of eight and within the next five years because internationally acclaimed as a true prodigy of the violin. A visionary ...