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Building Bridges with Music: Stories from a Composer's Life, by Samuel Adler, edited by Jürgen Thym. Pendragon Press, 2017. www.pendragonpress.com/; 264 pp., $39.95.
Adler's The Study of Orchestration has resided within arm's reach of my desk chair since graduate school. The book is well worn, but my esteem for Adler is intact. I know now how much I did not know about Samuel Adler (1928-). My admiration has sharpened.
Adler's storytelling takes you straight to the heart of significant scenes from his remarkable life. Destiny, talent, passion, zeal and a touch of "workaholism" have placed Adler in key positions to witness events shaping America's 20thand 21st-century musical...