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Title: Some funny vignettes in an overblown book.
Review: Having played chamber music as a seriour amateur most of my life, I recognized with a smile some of the anecdotes which the author recounts of his musical evenings. This is 5% of the book.The rest is overblown pretentious musings on the nature and value of amateurism with a watch-me-go display of unpersuasive humility and academic erudition about other irrelevancies.If you've played, you know the few charming parts already. If you don't, this book is largely filler.
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