A Fiddler's Journey: Based on the Letters of Judy Justice - Softcover

Justice, Mace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982598491 ISBN 13: 9780982598498

Publisher: Queen V Publishing - Ohio, 2012

Synopsis

A Fiddler’s Journey is an epistolary memoir, told through letters written by Judy Justice to her family. With a scholarship to study “avant-garde music,” Cincinnatian Judy Justice sailed to Germany in May 1960 to break traditions and taste new personal and professional freedoms in a country that was experiencing a rebirth of freedom of its own. Even more significant; however, Judy’s trip took place a mere fifteen years after the United States and Germany had been at war. World War II ended in the European theater in 1945, leaving much of Germany destroyed and its people trying to rebuild their infrastructure and regain pride. As you read A Fiddler’s Journey, you will experience: · The adventure of a young woman finding her way around Europe during the breaking of centuries of patriarchal and male-dominant traditions · Her struggle to perfect her craft and find her niche as a violinist · What she played, what she heard played and what it was like to tour with a chamber orchestra · The realization of a dream achieved

About this title

About the Author:

Mace Justice has had a life-long interest in music. His father was a church soloist and his mother was an amateur pianist. Mace played clarinet in high school, sung in choruses and taught Advanced Placement English at Western Hills High School in Cincinnati until retiring in 1985. He is an avid concert-goer and a collector of recordings.

About this edition

• Publisher: Queen V Publishing - Ohio
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0982598491
• ISBN 13: 9780982598498
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Beckman Wendy Hart