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The lost cellos of Lev Aronson by Brent, Frances Padorr is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is The lost cellos of Lev Aronson about?
To a musician, his instrument is a partner, an extension of himself. Frances Brent explores the fate of Lev Aronson and the prized instruments that passed through his hands as a way of understanding what was lost and preserved during the Holocaust. Born in Germany, but raised in Russia and Latvia, Aronson traveled through the music world of Europe with great expectations and encountered its cultural collapse first hand. In the Riga Ghetto and in German concentration camps Aronson is forced to reshape his own identity in order to survive. He loses his lover but marries a young dancer who helps him rebuild his life as a musician. In the camps, he think-sings the concertos he knows from memory, establishing a sense of time and patience that gives him the strength to survive. After the war, he became the principal cellist in the Dallas symphony, renowned worldwide as a teacher of cello. Brent paints a moving portrait of a Jewish musician who transcended his own personal losses to transmit the culture of musical Europe to a generation of Americans.
Who reads The lost cellos of Lev Aronson?
It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Brent, Frances Padorr
- Publisher
- New York: Atlas & Co. Publishers: Distributed to the trade by W.W. Norton
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781934633113
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Music
- Rating
- 3.65 / 5 (34 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14