My Sorrows, My Joys By Yong Ku Ahn Signed First Edition Hardcover Korean Music

Description: My Sorrows, My Joys By Yong Ku Ahn Signed First Edition Hardcover Korean Music Rare and hard to find! First edition signed hardcover book with dust jacket. Signed and with a personal inscription. Book is a memoir of Korean musician Yong Ku Ahn. Condition: book in very good preowned condition. Dust jacket very good, there is a darkish spot on the back inside cover and the back inside dust jacket flap. Excerpt from a review: “MY SORROWS, MY JOYS by Yong Ku Ahn “Yong Ku Ahn, famed violinist and teacher of music, tells of both the sad moments and happy joys of his life in heart-rendering terms. After years of rejection by his parents, he reaches a peak experience one day, which finally leads him to pick up his dusty old violin and begin to play again in earnest. He describes marvelously one of those snowy days in Wonsan, Korea when he noticed an old gramophone at home, and "out of curiosity opened the lid to the box. There was a record placed in it. I turned the crank on the side of the box and carefully put the needle arm on the record....Four notes sounded: "Ta ta ta taaah." Then once again "Ta ta ta taaah...." The majestic and passionate notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony pierced his heart like a sharp spear, like fate knocking on the door. He writes, "The four notes repeated themselves like the persistent unhappiness of my childhood. When the symphony ended, uncontrollable tears flooded down my face. Over ten years of loneliness, injustice, disappointment and sorrow flowed from me as if a dam had burst open. It was a purely miraculous moment, never to be recreated in my life: the moment when I realized that there existed a world of breathlessly beautiful sound outside of my cold and miserable existence of constant alienation." Never has the power of serious Western music been better described. How many of us have encountered such an experience on first discovering the beauty of classical music. Ahn went on to become a great violinist, a pioneer in the introduction of music playing and appreciation in Korea. He describes his travels, his love of chamber music, his passionate involvement in the movement to unify Korea, north with south. At present, the names of his pupils are on marquees of concert halls all over the world…”

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