|
|
| Plot Summary of Piano Lessons: Music, Love, and True Adventures |
|---|
"On turning 50, successful "All Things Considered" commentator Noah Adams decides to learn to play the piano, with the goal of performing Robert Schumann's "Traumerei" for his wife by year's end. He buys an $11,000 Steinway, skips lessons with a human being for a computer program option, visits a piano building business and music training camp, researches famous historic pianists. Other time commitments intrude -- road running, interviews with celebrities (not only musicians but John Grisham talking about writing _A Time To Kill_) -- and Adams describes his love-hate relationship with the piano and practicing. This is a slight book, but charming."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
|
"The PBS reporter's yearlong journal: he aims to learn enough piano to play "Traumerei" (Robert Schumann) acceptably well, and to play it for his wife. Sidetrips and detours -- piano technology, music history, notes on Schumann -- ornament his theme. "
, Resident Scholar
|
|
|
| Review Analysis of Piano Lessons: Music, Love, and True Adventures |
|---|
|
Our unique search engine provides a wealth of detail about books by breaking them down into many different literary elements, all of which are searchable (click here).
|
|
Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
job/profession:
- musician
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- journalist
- writer
Age:
- 40's-50's
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 2 (a little)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Book makes you feel?
- encouraged
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- Dry-cynical
- gentle
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- decency
Writer's slant towards subject:
- favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- None
How much dialogue in bio?
- little dialog
|
|
|
Click here for more information about this book
Note: the views expressed here are only those of the reviewer(s). | |
Use our site!
Feedback
About us
Most recent discussions:
General Book Talk
Book writing discussion
Off-topic message board
.
George W. Bush
2:05:48 AM
Dave Pelzer
11:10:01 PM
Suzanne Collins
10:29:00 PM
Lilian Jackson Braun
9:30:43 PM
Donna Fletcher
9:16:54 PM
Jean M. Auel
9:10:47 PM
J.K. Rowling
7:40:18 PM
Lisanne Norman
7:16:47 PM
Barack Obama
7:10:39 PM
Robert Segarra
6:30:24 PM
Margaret Peterson Haddix
6:23:46 PM
Deric Longden
4:43:16 PM
V.C. Andrews
2:17:47 PM
Linda Nagata
1:04:02 PM
Robin Cook
12:08:25 AM
Ruth Minsky Sender
7:39:26 PM
Gary Paulsen
7:15:11 PM
Zdena Kapral
2:41:37 PM
Eric Ambler
1:43:13 PM
Faye Kellerman
12:33:04 PM
More message boards
|
