{"product_id":"9780299183837","title":"A Fiddler's Tale: How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me","description":"This fascinating memoir, written by one of the greatest American violinists of the twentieth century, recounts an extraordinary life in music.\u003cbr\u003e     Once called by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \"a violinist's violinist and a musician's musician,\" Louis Kaufman was born in 1905 in Portland, Oregon. He studied violin with Franz Kneisl at New York's Institute of Musical Art. He was the original violist of the Musical Art Quartet (1926-1933) and won the Naumburg Award in 1928, the year of his American solo recital debut in New York's Town Hall.\u003cbr\u003e     During these early years, he played chamber music with Pablo Casals, Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Gregor Piatigorsky, and Efrem Zimbalist, among others. After performing the violin solos for Ernst Lubitsch's 1934 film \u003ci\u003eThe Merry Widow\u003c\/i\u003e, Kaufman became the most sought after violin soloist in Hollywood, playing in some 500 films, including \u003ci\u003eCasablanca\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Diary of Anne Frank\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSpartacus\u003c\/i\u003e. He worked closely with Robert Russell Bennett, Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Miklós Rózsa, Max Steiner, Franz Waxman, and Victor Young.     \u003cbr\u003e     Extraordinary as it seems today, Kaufman was largely responsible for bringing the once-forgotten music of Antonio Vivaldi to its current popularity worldwide among both classical musicians and the general population of music lovers.\u003cbr\u003e     The book includes a music CD with Kaufman’s performances of Vivaldi’s \u003ci\u003eConcerto 2 of op. 9\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHavanaise\u003c\/i\u003e by Camille Saint Saëns, \u003ci\u003eNocturne for Violin and Piano\u003c\/i\u003e by Aaron Copland, \u003ci\u003eMuch Ado about Nothing Suite\u003c\/i\u003e for violin and piano by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and \u003ci\u003eSmoke Gets in Your Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e by Jerome Kern, among other favorites.","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120491741424,"sku":"9780299183837","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780299183837_p0.jpg?v=1763684398","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780299183837","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}