Strings Attached
One Tough Teacher and the Art of Perfection
Published on 7. November 2013
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-4711-0198-4 (ISBN)
Description
If you're lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream bigger and to reach higher than you ever imagined you could.
For Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, that person was a music teacher known to his students as Mr K. A Ukrainian-born task-master, who yelled, stomped and screamed, and who, through sheer force of will, made them better than they had any right to be.
Strings Attachedtells the inspiring, poignant and powerful story of this remarkable man, whose life seemed to conspire against him at every turn and yet who was able to transform his own heartache into triumph for those he taught. Taking you on a journey that spans from his days as a forced Nazi laborer and his later home life as a husband to an invalid wife, to his heart-breaking search for his missing daughter, Melanie's sister.
For Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, that person was a music teacher known to his students as Mr K. A Ukrainian-born task-master, who yelled, stomped and screamed, and who, through sheer force of will, made them better than they had any right to be.
Strings Attachedtells the inspiring, poignant and powerful story of this remarkable man, whose life seemed to conspire against him at every turn and yet who was able to transform his own heartache into triumph for those he taught. Taking you on a journey that spans from his days as a forced Nazi laborer and his later home life as a husband to an invalid wife, to his heart-breaking search for his missing daughter, Melanie's sister.
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Joanne Lipman is one of the United States most prominent journalists and commentators. She was founding Editor-in-Chief of Conde Nast Portfolio and a deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. Currently a Newsweek columnist and adviser to news organisations such as CNN and Yahoo, she is a frequent television commentator, appearing on CNN, CBS and CNBC, among others. Melanie Kupchynsky began studying violin at the age of four with her father and the subject of the book, 'Mr K'. She has since been a violinist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for more than twenty years, during which time the symphony has won twenty one Grammys.