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255 pages : 22 cm +, Steinhardt's story of life with violins is rich with vivid scenes: the zen of terror perpetrated by the author's legendary early violin teachers, the frankly sensual pleasures involved in the pursuit of the perfect violin, the zanily charged culture of high-level competitions. Steinhardt illuminates Bach's Chaconne as the holy grail for the solo violin, and he pursues -- from the perspective of an ardent owner of a great Storioni violin - the history and mysteries of the renowned Italian violinmakers. Violin Dreams is also studded with musical pilgrimages, one of them to the all but-vanished Polish shtetl where his mother was born, and where, he movingly shows, his own love for the eerily evocative sound of the violin was born as well, Arnold Steinhardt, for forty years an international soloist and the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, brings warmth, wit, and fascinating insider details to the story of his lifelong obsession with this most seductive and stunningly beautiful instrument. With Violin Dreams comes a remarkable CD recording of Steinhardt performing Bach's Partita in B Minor as a young violinist forty years ago and playing the same piece especially for Violin Dreams on his Storioni. Lively commentary on the differences between the two performances is included, Survival of the fittest -- Photo gallery -- Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump -- Violin 101 -- Mischa, Jascha, Toscha, Sascha -- Music school -- I, violinist -- A flying leap -- The dating game -- True love -- Chaconne -- A most heavenly music -- The dance of life and death -- Dance fever -- Cremona -- A concert hall for the gods, Audio CD contents. Violin partita no. 2 in D minor / Johann Sebastian Bach (recorded Feb. 8-10, 1966) -- Violin partita no. 2 in D minor / Johann Sebastian Bach (recorded Mard 23 and April 13, 2006), On CD: Arnold Steinhardt, violin