Carol Easton (1933–2021)
Auteur de Jacqueline Du Pre
A propos de l'auteur
Carol Evelyn Easton was an American biographer. She was born in San Francisco and raised in Hollywood. She studied theater arts at the University of California, Los Angeles and worked as a freelance writer for years before deciding to write a biography. Her books focused on creative people in the afficher plus arts. The first biography was Straight Ahead: The Story of Stan Kenton (1973), followed by The Search for Sam Goldwyn (1976), Jacqueline du Pre: A Biography (1989), and No Intermissions: The Life of Agnes de Mille (1996), which was named a New York Times Notable Book (1996). Carol Easton died at her home in Venice, California on June 17, 2021. She was 87. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Carol Easton
Jacqueline de Pre 3 exemplaires
No intermission the life of Agnes de mille 1 exemplaire
Jacqueline du Pre A Biography 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Herzenberg, Carol Evelyn (birth)
- Date de naissance
- 1933-09-27
- Date de décès
- 2021-06-17
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Venice, California, USA
- Études
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Professions
- freelance writer
biographer
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 133
- Popularité
- #152,660
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 19
- Langues
- 2
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.… (plus d'informations)