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Sto caricando le informazioni... Jacqueline Du Pre (1989)di Carol Easton
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Carol Easton, who knew Jacqueline du Pré well, draws on this friendship to create a moving and insightful portrait of a singularly complex person. Jacqueline du Pré (the subject of the recent film Hilary and Jackie) was the music world's "golden girl," with what appeared to many to be a fairytale career and storybook marriage to Daniel Barenboim. But away from her cello, du Pré was achingly human. As a child, she was isolated by her phenomenal talent. As an adult, she was confined to the rarefied, insular concert world. And during the last fifteen years of her life, she lived in the inexorably shrinking world of the invalid, as multiple sclerosis took its toll. The Baltimore Sun said, Carol Easton tells this extraordinary story "with feeling befitting du Pré's own." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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There are allusions to issues with her family and private life and without minimising them, Easton manages to give them some perspective. In the end you get the sense that, for all of the imperfections in her private life, Ms du Pre actually coped fairly well - no worse and perhaps better than many of us. The remarkable thing is that she was able to preserve and develop that talent, and Easton does a very creditable job of sharing the feeling of performance, the playing, the mechanics of tour bookings and the effect on the public and critics.
In fact Easton's real achievement here is to produce a musical and a personal biography that is readable and informative, and moving without descending into an excess of sentimentality. Which is the essence of that respect towards the reader I mentioned earlier. The author presents a life to the reader honestly and without adornment, acknowledging the limitations of how much we will ever know about a subject, but saying "Here is a story of a life, I have done my best to tell it for you."
Very highly recommended, and to the accompaniment of some of those recordings of Ms du Pre's performances on the cello, or indeed all them. A precious gift that wasn't wasted. ( )