Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage by Faliks, Inna
Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage by Faliks, Inna

Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage

Before she knew she was Ukrainian, Soviet, or Jewish, Inna Faliks knew she was a musician. Growing...
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Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage by Faliks, Inna

Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage

€45,67
Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage by Faliks, Inna

Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage

€45,67
Author: Inna Faliks
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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.



Author: Inna Faliks
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Published: 10/15/2023
Pages: 278
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.91w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781493071746

About the Author
Inna Faliks is an internationally acclaimed classical concert pianist and is Head of Piano and Professor of Piano at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. After her acclaimed debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age fifteen, she has performed on many of the world's great stages with numerous orchestras and in solo appearances. Her discography includes "Sound of Verse: Music of Boris Pasternak, Ravel, and Rachmaninoff" and "Polonaise-Fantasie, Story of a Pianist" (which includes spoken passages that inspired this book). Falik's distinguished career has taken her to numerous recitals and concerti in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Ravinia Festival, and the Shanghai Oriental Theater. She is frequently invited to guest artist residencies at leading conservatories, universities, and festivals.
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