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Kerman, Joseph. Concerto Conversations. Harvard Univ. (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures). Oct. 1999. c.192p, index. ISBN 0-674-15891-1. $24.95 with CD. MUSIC
What a pity this engaging, intelligent book is not a multimedia CD or video series (one of the publication formats of Leonard Bernstein's Norton lectures). Kerman (Write All These Down: Essays on Music) knows that successful music appreciation sessions need "less talk and more music." His lectures provided more music than is found on the accompanying CD (and unlike the CD, they included video clips as well). The book does have photographs and musical examples, but they're crowded at the back. Cues to …