When Spencer Tracy talked about the role he played in Judgment at Nuremberg, he referred to the lines he was able to speak as being the greatest privilege of his life. During my career I feel that I was immensely privileged to play 40 years of cello solos with the greatest ballet dancers and opera singers of the time, and to spend most of my days and nights intimately connected with some of the greatest music ever written.
- Introduction
- I. Separate Checks
- II. Fancy Free
- III. Sadist or Saint
- IV. A New Cello
- V. The Divinity that Shapes our Ends
- VI. Gerald Beal to the Rescue
- VII. Sarah and Floria
- VIII. My First Season at the Lyric Opera
- IX. Personal Transformation
- X. Bolts of Leitners
- XI. Cash for a Guadagnini
- XII. American Chamber Concerts
- XIII. Channing Robbins and Leonard Rose
- XIV. Dr. Albert Ellis
- XIV. Dyslexia and Its Discontents
- XV. Die Meisterschleppers
- XVI. Unlimited Mileage
- XVII. Making Gold out of Tin
- XVIII. The Death of Leonard Rose
- XVIV. An Inevitable Sense of Rubato
- Epilogue