Contents
Illustrations
Foreword by Jim Svejda
Acknowledgments
1. Bucharest to Portland and Back
2. I Become a Violinist
3. New York and Kneisel
4. More Kneisel - Auer - Graduation - Chamber Music
5. The Musical Art Quartet Is Launched: I Become an Art Collector
6. The Musical Art Quartet
7. In Baltimore and Capri with the Musical Art Quartet
8. Paris!
9. Italian Concerts: Encore Paris
10. "The Real Thing" : Romance and Annette
11. Together in Europe - Our Honeymoon
12. Hometown Triumph and California Here We Come!
13. The Goal: Los Angeles
14. Hollywood: The Golden Years
15. Another Aspect of Hollywood - Art and Music: William Grant Still - Darius Milhaud
16. Bernard Herrmann - Another View: Other Friends, Anthony Collins - Herrmann's Rebirth and Apotheosis
17. Concert Opportunities - Works Progress Administration: Music - Art - Theater - Trail-blazing
18. Vivaldi Discovers Me - We Meet Francis Poulenc - Historic Recordings
19. En Route to France via Honolulu
20. En Route to Venice via Zurich - after Visiting Poulenc
21. Unfinished Business: Meeting Malipiero
22. Brussels con Moto: Paris Recordings - Arrival in Brussels - Fateful Meeting with Paul Collaer
23. More Poulenc, More Brussels: Paris Premiere of 'Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Invenzione'
24. Introducing Vivaldi to America: Opus 9 Reveals Another Masterpiece - the Paris Premiere of 'La Cetra'
25. Unexpected North African Tour: Paris Friends!
26. We Meet Samuel Barber in San Francisco - Drama in Holland: Friendships with Artists
27. South American Adventures
28. Utrecht Recordings - War Crimes - Search for Spohr
29. Paris - the Survivor - Maryan
30. London Adventures in Music and Art
31. Northern Exposure
32. Miracle in Milan: Recording in Paris
33. Return to Los Angeles: Korngold Memorial Concert
34. Adventures behind the Iron Curtain
35. Recordings at Last and Lebduska Mystery
36, Cousin Mico Kaufman, Sculptor
37. The Dybbuk - a Devil to Produce
38. From Sicily to Tahiti
39. Hazardous Travel
Postscript
Appendix 1 - Reviews
Appendix 2 - Los Angeles Program Notes, 9 December 1956
Appendix 3 - The Changing Recording World
Appendix 4 - Violin Editions of Louis Kaufman
Appendx 5 - A Louis Kaufman's Filmography: Concertmaster in the Golden Years, a Partial List
Louis Kaufman Discography
Bibliography
Louis Kaufman CD Playlist