The piano player of Budapest

Buch

De Bastion, Roxanne

  • Titel: The piano player of Budapest : a true story of Holocaust survival, music and hope / Roxanne de Bastion
  • Teil: My darling children -- Part one. Music -- Send me a wire -- And so it was -- Help, I inherited! -- Blissfully blinkered -- In splendid isolation -- The family tree -- For the time being -- They danced until Doomsday -- Part two. Survival -- You weren't warm enough -- Chased and hunted -- It's either you or me -- Everybody's prey -- How the chances are happening -- The piano player of Budapest -- Darker clouds on the horizon -- So that it never happens again -- Part three. hope -- I'd rather go back to Hungary -- A room with no walls -- All together -- What sort of people had we been? -- Remember me -- Sleep, sleep, little boy -- Farewell to Budapest -- To those of you listening -- Epilogue.
  • Person(en): De Bastion, Roxanne [Verfasser*in]
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Originalsprache: Englisch
  • Umfang: xxii, 266 Seiten : 1 Illustration, 1 genealogische Tafel ; 23 cm
  • Erschienen: London : Robinson, 2024
  • ISBN/Preis: 978-1-4721-4785-1 Paperback : EUR 22.50
  • Schlagwörter: De Bastion, Stephen
  • Anmerkungen: Titelzusatz vom Einband
  • Signatur: MUSIK und TANZ > Klassik Bücher
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Inhalt: This is a story about a piano and its most prodigious player - how it, along with him, survived. When her father died, singer songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only when she finds a cassette recording of her grandfather, Stephen, playing one of his compositions, the true and almost unbelievable history of the piano, this man and her family begins to unravel. Stephen was a man who enjoyed great fame, a man who suffered the horrors of concentration camps in WWII, a man who ultimately survives - along with his piano. By piecing together his cassette recordings, unpublished memoirs, letters and documents, Roxanne sings out her grandfather's story of music and hope, lost and found, and explores the power of what can echo down through generations