Girls at the piano
Lloyd, Virginia2019
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Virginia Lloyd spent much of her childhood and adolescence learning and playing the piano and thought she would make a career as a pianist. When that didn't happen, she spent a long time wondering about those years of study: had they been wasted? What was their purpose? This intriguing memoir explores those questions and investigates the mystery of the author's very musical and deeply unhappy grandmother Alice, and how their lives - both at and away from the piano - intersected and diverged. It also explores the changing relationship between women and the piano over the course of the instrument's history, taking us from the salons of 18th-century Europe to an amateur jazz workshop in Manhattan in the early 21st century.
Main title:
Girls at the piano / Virginia Lloyd.
Author:
Lloyd, Virginia, author
Imprint:
Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2019.
Collation:
400 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781760297770 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1289100
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