Meeting Mozart: A Novel Drawn From the Secret Diaries of Lorenzo Da Ponte

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$17.95  $16.69
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Sager Group LLC
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Pages
432
Dimensions
5.51 X 8.5 X 0.96 inches | 1.2 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781950154388
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About the Author
Howard Jay Smith is an award-winning writer from Santa Barbara, California. Meeting Mozart is his fourth book. He was recently awarded a John E. Profant Foundation for the Arts, Literature Division Scholarship, The James Buckley Excellence in Writing Award. Smith is a former Bread Loaf Scholar and Washington, D.C. Commission for the Arts Fellow, who taught for many years in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and has lectured nationally. His articles and photographs have appeared in the Washington Post, the Beethoven Journal, Horizon, the Journal of the Writers Guild of America, and the Ojai Quarterly. While an executive at ABC Television, Embassy TV, and Academy Home Entertainment, he worked on numerous film, television, radio, and commercial projects. He serves on the board of directors of the Santa Barbara Symphony and is a member of the American Beethoven Society.
Reviews

"Howard Jay Smith has written the musical equivalent of The Da Vinci Code. Deftly plotted and richly detailed, the novel spans generations and involves Mozart, mysteries, masquerades, opera, spies, and much more. How Smith managed to pull it all together is a mystery in itself. But he does, and he's written a deeply satisfying ending." -Patricia Morrisroe, author, The Woman in the Moonlight

"Smith writes beautifully and with a wonderful command of language and a deep knowledge of history, music and opera. This is a fantastic story and an absolute delight to read." -Nir Kabaretti, Music Director and Conductor of The Israel Sinfonietta Beersheba and the Santa Barbara Symphony

"Meeting Mozart is a journey of transcendence, an exquisitely constructed novel crafted by a compelling storyteller." -Alan Riche, Producer of Duets, The Legend of Tarzan, Bodies at Rest, Family Man, Mod Squad, Starsky & Hutch

"In this tour de force, Smith vividly brings to life not only Da Ponte's challenges in navigating the challenges of life for Jews, but also those of his descendants who must also face the horrors of the Holocaust and eloquently rise above them. A warm and heart-felt novel." -Gaelle Lehrer Kennedy, author, Night in Jerusalem

"Howard Jay Smith brilliantly juggles, with bravura and virtuosity, Da Ponte's fascinating and epic life-. And for the first time he brings to the forefront how Da Ponte's Jewish DNA helped to catapult him into immortality." -Tom Greene writer/producer, Wildside, Magnum, P.I., Knight Rider, Star Trek

"A mesmerizing story with substantial impact. Deftly written with sensitivity and insight." -Grant Gochin, author, Malice, Murder & Manipulation, The Lithuanian Holocaust

Howard Jay Smith's splendid literary novels incorporate mystery and historical fiction. With Meeting Mozart, Smith takes readers from the stylish streets of Europe's most important musical cities to a Jewish deli in early modern New York. And he reintroduces us to captivating historical figures as varied as Mozart, Casanova and Clement Moore in a complex and often-riveting tale about creativity, identity, and purpose." -Russell Martin, author, Beethoven's Hair, Out of Silence, The Sorrow of Archaeology


"An entertaining tale inspired by Mozart and his opera aimed especially toward Mozart lovers. The book's mingling of fact and fancy includes a memorable portrait of Mozart's raffish and brilliant librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte." -Jan Swafford, author, Mozart, The Reign of Love; Beethoven; Anguish & Triumph; Brahms, A Biography