Gerald Saul
Legend in His Own Mind
Published on 25. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
178 pages
978-1-7960-0447-2 (ISBN)
Description
Gerald Saul: Legend in His Own Mind tells a story that spans the first forty years of life with mystery, adventure, sadness, love, philosophy, and travel of a person who is a legend in his own mind. It begins with the family background of a single parent mother of five, goes on to tell of the life on a small West Indian island, continues into England, travels to German then to the endurance and the struggle of life on a kibbutz in Israel, and ends on the continent of Australia.
It delves into the working life of an individual from being a paperboy to factory worker, salesperson, student, banker, police officer, youth worker, businessman, and teacher.
The individual is not politically correct, uses women for pleasure, is immoral but charming, and is a villain and a hero.
Gerald Saul: Legend in His Own Mind tackles the challenges of growing up without guidance, questioning one's morals, coping with discrimination, and reasoning the experiences in life and the hardships of loneliness, and much more.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7960-0447-2 (9781796004472)
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David Singer
Gerald Saul: Legend in His Own Mind
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09/2019
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David Singer is an Emeritus Principal Clarinetist of the Grammy Award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, NYC and an Emeritus Professor of Music from Montclair State University, NJ. Naxos and American Classics released Singer's recording of the Aaron Copland Clarinet Concerto and from England, Gramophone Magazine wrote, "Singer's Copland performance is one of the finest accounts around. His playing is exceptional...sensitive and expressive...technically brilliant." Lawrence A. Johnson. Gramophone Magazine. October, 2010. David Singer performed with Yehudi Menuhin in Bela Bartok's Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano in Carnegie Hall, Feb. 19, 1983, and was also a featured performer at the Marlboro Music Festival for six summers where he recorded a Max Reger Sonata with Rudolf Serkin, which was remastered and reissued internationally by Pristine Classical in 2021. From Cab Driver to Carnegie Hall marks David Singer's debut as an author encapsulating his life's journey on and off the revered stages of the world.