{"product_id":"distant-melodies-9780571366545","title":"Distant Melodies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does music heard and played over many years inform one's sense of home? In \u003ci\u003eDistant Melodies\u003c\/i\u003e, Edward Dusinberre, the English first violinist of the Takács Quartet, explores changing ideas of home, exile and return in the lives and particular chamber works of four composers: Antonin Dvorák, Edward Elgar, Bela Bartók and Benjamin Britten. A resident of Boulder, Colorado for nearly three decades, Dusinberre discovers ways in which music may both accentuate and ameliorate homesickness, as he visits and imagines some of the places crucial to these composers' creative inspiration. Drawn to the storiesof Dvorák, Bartók and Britten's American sojourns as they try to reconcile their new surroundings with nostalgiafortheir homelands, Dusinberre looks at his own evolving relationship to England through the prism of Elgar's unusual Piano Quintet and the landscapes that inspired it.\u003cbr\u003eNew aspects of familiar music reveal themselves under altered circumstances. In the forty-eight years\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865127760215,"sku":"9780571366545","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780571366545.jpg?v=1722273662","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/distant-melodies-9780571366545","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}