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When Mavis Himes, a psychoanalyst with an established practice of over forty years, began to contemplate retirement, she decided to learn to play the cello. From meeting her teacher in an overcrowded caf
Cello Notes: Music and the Urgency of Time
A new instrument at a life transition
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A new instrument at a life transition
As Mavis Himes considers retirement after more than forty years as a psychoanalyst, she takes up the cello. The book brings together a change in working life and the experience of beginning to learn an instrument, with chamber music as its stated musical context. Its premise offers a personal point of entry into questions of time, work, and making room for music later in life.
Good fit for readers who enjoy
- Readers interested in personal accounts of retirement and changing work lives
- Those curious about learning the cello or chamber music
- Readers interested in music’s place in adult life
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Retirement and transitionLearning the celloChamber musicTime and later-life change
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