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Terry Wait Klefstad, Nashville, Tennessee, is associate professor of music at Belmont University. She has written on the music of Béla Bartók and Dmitri Shostakovich. A pianist by training, she specializes in music history of the twentieth century.
With Crooked River City, Terry Wait Klefstad has given us a valuable account of how one American musician made a life and a living in music. In the case of William Pursell, that account provides encounters with and insights into some of the most important institutions, stylistic traditions, and industry centers in American music: Peabody Conservatory of Music; the US military; Eastman School of Music; Howard Hanson; rhythm-and-blues and the Nashville Sound; the Nashville music industry; the Nashville Symphony Orchestra; and the famous Bohemian Club of San Francisco. Highly readable, Klefstad tells Pursell's story from the perspective of a friend who happens to be a well-trained scholar with access to both the man and his archive. I recommend this book to anyone interested in professional music making in America--and especially Nashville--in the seven decades following World War II. Young musicians seeking a way forward will find Pursell's story instructive and inspiring.--Stephen Shearon, retired professor of musicology, Middle Tennessee State University
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