Weight in the Fingertips

Weight in the Fingertips

Author: Inna Faliks

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-10-15

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1493071750

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Before she knew she was Ukrainian, Soviet, or Jewish, Inna Faliks knew she was a musician. Growing up in the city of Odessa, the piano became her best friend, and she explored the brilliant, intricate puzzles of Bach’s music and learned to compose under her mother’s watchful eye. At ten, Faliks and her parents moved to Chicago as part of the tide of Jewish refugees who fled the USSR for the West in the 1980s. During the months-long immigration process, she would silently practice on kitchen tables while imagining a full set of piano keys beneath her fingertips. In Weight in the Fingertips, Faliks gives a globe-trotting account of her upbringing as a child prodigy in a Soviet state, the perils of immigration, the struggle of assimilating as an American, years of training with teachers, and her slow and steady rise in the world of classical music. With a warm and playful style, she helps non-musicians understand the experience of becoming a world-renowned concert pianist. The places she grew up, the books she read, the poems she memorized as a child all connect to her sound at the piano, and the way she hears and shapes a musical phrase illuminate classical music and elite performance. She also explores how a person’s humanity makes their art honest and their voice unique, and how the life-long challenge of retaining that voice is fueled by a balance between being a great musician and being a human being. Throughout, Faliks provides powerful insights into the role of music in a world of conflict, change, and hope for a better tomorrow.


Weight in the Fingertips

Weight in the Fingertips

Author: Inna Faliks

Publisher: Backbeat Books

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781493071746

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"A memoir offering powerful insights into the role of music in a world of conflict, change, and hope for a better tomorrow"--


Fingers

Fingers

Author: William Sleator

Publisher: Tor Teen

Published: 2006-06-27

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1466827297

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Eighteen-year-old Sam has always been jealous of his younger brother, Humphrey, the famous "wonder child" pianist. But now that Humphrey is fifteen, the one-time child prodigy isn't able to get any more bookings. Sam's mother refuses to accept that Humphrey's career is over and devises a scheme to recapture his fame: Sam will compose "new works" by a long dead gypsy composer, and they will tell the world that the composer is dictating the music to Humphrey from the grave. The scheme is a wild success—until some ghostly occurrences convince Sam that the spirit of the dead composer has actually taken over Humphrey's fingers. Have Sam and his family unleashed a force from beyond the grave? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


Mark Twain at Your Fingertips

Mark Twain at Your Fingertips

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2009-11-18

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 0486473198

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One of America's greatest storytellers, Samuel Clemens had something witty and wise to say on just about any topic. Gathered from his classic novels, diary entries, newspaper articles, and correspondence, this collection of wry quips and quotes reflects his keen observations on animals, critics, doctors, laughter, politics, youth, and more.


Fingerology

Fingerology

Author: Hillary J. Kener

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010-12

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1440167036

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What are the names of the fingers? The fingers should be named: thumb, index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger. But this answer is not always correct, complete, or adequate; at times, there is confusion and aberrations... Retrospectively, in 1969, in the second issue of the new British Journal of Hand Surgery, Dr. H. Graham Stack wrote a classic article, "Naming the Fingers," elaborating on these confusions, ambiguities, and misconceptions. With the permission of Sage Publications, we have reproduced the article- and it is just as relevant today as it was four decades ago. The lessons that were illustrated and preached have still been relatively ignored. Indeed, it may be more relevant as the problem of "Naming the Fingers" has not been resolved or eliminated- and there have been over 200 reports of wrong site surgery on the hand in 2007 in the US. - including 123 on the fingers. Fingerology has evolved into a reference book, a compendium of and about the fingers.


The Splendor of Music

The Splendor of Music

Author: Angela Diller

Publisher:

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13:

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The co-author of the Diller-Quaile music instruction series offers advice on piano teaching.


The Finger Ratio

The Finger Ratio

Author: John Manning

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780571215409

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SCIENCE: GENERAL ISSUES. What could fingers and sex possibly have in common? What does the shape of a child's fingers reveal about future musical talent? And why should professional footballers have longer fingers than other men? This book is about a simple measurement of the human hand: the 'finger ratio', or the length of the ring finger relative to the index finger. John Manning uses a tiny difference between the sexes - that men tend to have a greater finger ratio than women - to examine a dizzying group of questions about human behaviour, from sexuality, to musical ability, to predisposition to disease. Provocative, intriguing and balanced, John Manning's cutting-edge research poses many fruitful and unusual questions about what makes us as we are.