Life in the pit
26th August 2015
This little book may not look much, but it turned out to be a fascinating read. Entitled Sketches of the life of orchestral musicians, it’s the first edition of an early work by Ivan Lipaev (1865–1942), for many years a trombonist with the Bolshoi Orchestra in Moscow, and professor of music at the conservatoire in Saratov, […]
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