A Lasting Record
HarperCollins, $29.99 pb, 314 pp, 9780732294847
Biography
On and off the record
by Alistaire Bowler •
In A Lasting Record, journalist and food writer Stephen Downes recounts the serendipitous tale of an eccentric music lover from Melbourne who, with a primitive home recording device, captured the only extant recording of American pianist William Kapell’s final performance. Downes vacillates between biography, literature, diary, and musicological critique.
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A Lasting Record
by Stephen Downes
HarperCollins, $29.99 pb, 314 pp, 9780732294847
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