KBAQ Book of the Month

Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves by Elyse Mach

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KBAQ Book of the Month for November

Renee Fleming's Autobiography, "The Inner Voice"

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KBAQ Book of the Month for October

The Blue Piano and other stories by Carol Montparker

KBAQ’s Randy Kinkel Reviews "The Blue Piano and other stories" – Carol Montparker, Pianist, artist, teacher and longtime publisher of "Clavier" magazine, shares funny, moving and heartwarming stories from her life in the latest KBAQ book of the month.

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KBAQ Book of the Month for September

Mozart in the Jungle

KBAQ’s Randy Kinkel reviews “Mozart in the Jungle”, a fascinating memoir of a freelance New York City Musician, Oboist Blair Tindall, who decided to leave the profession and start a new career as a journalist. In addition to the insider’s look at a world few of us know, the book gives a musician’s view of what is wrong with the classical music concert world and has some suggestions on how to fix it.

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KBAQ Book of the Month for July

A Sweeper-up After Artists

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KBAQ Book of the Month for June

A Mouse Called Wolf

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KBAQ Book of the Month for May

Evening in the Palace of Reason

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KBAQ Book of the Month for April

Charles Ives by Jan Swafford

KBAQ's Randy Kinkel reviews and recommends the biography of American composer Charles Ives by writer and composer Jan Swafford.

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KBAQ Book of the Month for February

"For the End of Time" by Rebecca Rischin

KBAQ's Randy Kinkel reccommends the book, "For the End of Time" by Rebecca Rischin, an account of the origin, in a Nazi prison camp, of one of the great artistic triumphs of the 20th century-- Olivier Messaien's "Quartet For the End of Time"

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