The Satchmo' Suite
By Unknown Author.
Description
Hubert Clements is a black cellist on tour with a symphony orchestra. Their guest soloist is injured and the conductor asks Clements to stand in. After wrestling with an extremely dif?cult passage in the performance piece, Bach’s Six Suites for Solo Cello, Clements ?nally resorts to improvising his way through the score, which earns him a stinging rebuke from the conductor, who disdainfully calls him Satchmo’.”Humiliated, Clements returns to his hotel room, where try as he might he cannot master the piece. Unwittingly invoking the ghost of Louis Armstrong, the highly myth...
ISBN(s)
0889226482, 9780889226487
