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While the Music Lasts
Hardback: ORION 1-85797-939-7
Paperback: PHOENIX 1-85799-342-X
While the Music Lasts opens up the life of an orchestra in all its stressful, raw and exhilarating detail.
Between recording sessions, foreign tours and concerts, the musical and personal tensions between the orchestra members revolve and resolve.
Isabel's affair with William is interwoven with the machinations and manoeuvres of their colleagues--the mercurial Piotr, Mirabel the feisty Australian horn-player, and David, the new principal cellist. A love letter goes astray, a guest conductor selects the wrong person to seduce, someone succumbs to coercion, and there is an extraordinary codicil to a will. This is an original, moving, witty and often startling novel about the backstage life of a symphony orchestra.
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© Alice McVeigh 2000
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