Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-330) and index
Part one. Dust ; A piano ; Harvard ; Curtis, Tanglewood, Boston, and New York -- Part two. Wonderful times ; Age of anxiety ; Serenade ; Broadway and Carnegie Hall ; What does music mean? ; At the center ; Chichester, Vienna, Mount Scopus -- Part three. Questions and declarations ; Dybbuk ; In the garden ; Regrets, celebrations, and goodbyes