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How Can We Keep from Singing: Music and the Passionate Life.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

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From: American Music Teacher
Date: 20030601
Author:DeMent, Melanie

by Joan Oliver Goldsmith. W. W. Norton & Co. (500 5th Ave., New lark, NY 10110), 2002. 223 pp., $13.95.

The subtitle to Joan Oliver Goldsmith's book, How Can We Keep from Singing, gives us our first clue that this is not a book about vocal pedagogy. The book is a collection of personal essays on the lessons of life and the extraordinary parallels to be found in music making.

Goldsmith is a freelance writer who reviews classical music for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. She is a well-trained and experienced musician, who, like the majority of us, performs on the sidelines ...

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