BBC Music Magazine‘s August 2018 issue features a new review for Carol Rosenberger’s To Play Again memoir:
“To Play Again reveals [Carol Rosenberger’s] subsequent path back to the keyboard, even when doctors warned she should simply try to live a ‘normal’ life. To Rosenberger, life without the piano is unthinkable, and how she managed to not only play again, but also succeed as a recording and concert pianist, is a harrowing and inspiring story. The prose contains emotive descriptions of the physical and mental strain of the illness…the descriptions of cultural life in Paris and Vienna are fascinating, particularly the anecdotes about Rosenberger’s work with Nadia Boulanger. Throughout, the underlying theme is one of friendship — the book is dedicated to Rosenberger’s friend Amelia Da Costa Stone Haygood, with whom she went on to launch the record label Delos — and the reader is struck by the impact of these positive relationships on Rosenberger’s pianism.”
—Claire Jackson, BBC Music Magazine
See more in the BBC Music Magazine August 2018 issue.
To Play Again Links
- 2018 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS BRONZE MEDAL WINNER
- Published by She Writes Press
- Explore Delos Director and recording artist Carol Rosenberger’s career
- See more reviews for To Play Again
- Read an excerpt in Entropy Magazine
- Explore Carol Rosenberger’s Delos Discography
