Harps Are Not for Angels

[very slight edgewear to front cover, otherwise clean and as-new]. Trade PB "Memoirs of a life begun in a musical family in Los Angeles in the 1920s," by a harpist who "spent over 25 years as a harpist under contract to two major motion picture studios." She got her big break in the early 1940s, when a concert at which she was performing was attended by the great film composer Max Steiner; this led to her joining his staff at Warner Bros.; in 1949 she was hired as a full-time harpist at Paramount, and spent most of the rest of her career there. (There's some good anecdotal material about working with Cecil B. DeMille and Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, among others, at Paramount.) "Along the way Aida describes the professionals in the film music business she encountered, and relates stories involving the history of Los Angeles and its connection to the music world at the time, as the city was a cultural cornucopia at the end of the Second World War." The last few chapters recount her battle against, and recovery from, breast cancer.

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Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Year: (c.1997)

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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