The Shrine Thief
$55.79
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2024
Summary
A renowned musician in his 85th year explores the nature of wisdom, how we learn to recognize it, and how we pass it forward.
In this entrancing memoir, timeless questions about music and life are explored by a master musician in his 85th year. The stern father who built an empire of words; the solipsistic uncle whose hypnotic voice calmed millions- these are just early glimpses of Mathieu’s memory. Soon he is crimped into an overhead baggage rack in Stan Kenton’s tour bus as scenes o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781949597295 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1949597296 |
| Author: | W.A. Mathieu |
| Publisher: | Terra Nova Press |
| Imprint: | Terra Nova Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
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About The Author
W.A. Mathieu
William Allaudin Mathieu, a classically trained pianist, composed and arranged on the staff of the Stan Kenton Orchestra at age 21 and was a co-founding member of the Second City Theater at 22. He studied with William Russo, Easley Blackwood, Pandit Pran Nath, and Hamza El Din and taught on the full-time faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Mills College. A former columnist for Downbeat and Piano Today, he is the author of five books, including The Listening Book and Harmonic Experience, and has released over thirty albums comprising an astonishing range of music. Since the late 1970s he has lived surrounded by woods, pastures, deer, and birds outside of Sebastopol, California, composing, playing the piano, teaching, and being grateful breath by breath for these golden years with Devi.
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