The Complete Pianist ─ Body, Mind, Synthesis

Pianist Ruth Friedberg presents a handbook for students, teachers and performers in which she shares her insights gained in her many years of concert and teaching experience. She addresses questions related to the role of the body in helping or hindering the pianist, how the mind can be utilized to play the most beneficial role, and how performance requires a synthesis of the two. Throughout, she gives advice gleaned from great pianists and teachers, when applicable. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ruth C. Friedberg, Director of Music and Professor of Piano, Incarnate Word College, San Antonio, TX, has also taught at Duke, the University of Texas, and the New School of Music in Philadelphia. She has concertized and given lecture-recitals throughout the US and Canada and was the keyboard artist of the San Antonio Symphony from 1976 to 1987. Her articles on 20th-century music and composers have appeared in many periodicals as well as in the New Grove's Dictionaries of Music, and Scarecrow Press has published her three-volume set, American Art Song and American Poetry (1981-1987).