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Ivan Raykoff knows everything there is to know about why concert pianists - from Franz Liszt to Glenn Gould and from Clara Schumann to Martha Argerich - can be so damned sexy. And like a performance by Rachmaninoff of, say, his own Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Dreams of Love by Raykoff is a brilliantly conceived and beautifully rendered arrangement of all that knowledge. --Kevin Kopelson, University of Iowa In Dreams of Love Ivan Raykoff gives us a poetics of the concert pianist as a cultural figure of desire. He weds a graceful command of cultural theory to colorful histories of pianists' sound-bodies and technologies parallel to the piano, and he opens us to a world of piano movies, songs, and novels almost too rich to comprehend. -- James Parakilas, Bates College Exhaustively documented... It can be strongly recommended as a study in popular culture and the history of technology as well as music history. --ClassicalNet

"""Ivan Raykoff knows everything there is to know about why concert pianists - from Franz Liszt to Glenn Gould and from Clara Schumann to Martha Argerich - can be so damned sexy. And like a performance by Rachmaninoff of, say, his own Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Dreams of Love by Raykoff is a brilliantly conceived and beautifully rendered arrangement of all that knowledge.""--Kevin Kopelson, University of Iowa ""In Dreams of Love Ivan Raykoff gives us a poetics of the concert pianist as a cultural figure of desire. He weds a graceful command of cultural theory to colorful histories of pianists' ""sound-bodies"" and technologies parallel to the piano, and he opens us to a world of piano movies, songs, and novels almost too rich to comprehend.""-- James Parakilas, Bates College ""Exhaustively documented... It can be strongly recommended as a study in popular culture and the history of technology as well as music history."" --ClassicalNet ""A fascinating and engaging book from beginning to end."" --CHOICE"

Ivan Raykoff knows everything there is to know about why concert pianists - from Franz Liszt to Glenn Gould and from Clara Schumann to Martha Argerich - can be so damned sexy. And like a performance by Rachmaninoff of, say, his own Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Dreams of Love by Raykoff is a brilliantly conceived and beautifully rendered arrangement of all that knowledge. * Kevin Kopelson, University of Iowa *

Ivan Raykoff knows everything there is to know about why concert pianists - from Franz Liszt to Glenn Gould and from Clara Schumann to Martha Argerich - can be so damned sexy. And like a performance by Rachmaninoff of, say, his own Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Dreams of Love by Raykoff is a brilliantly conceived and beautifully rendered arrangement of all that knowledge. --Kevin Kopelson, University of Iowa In Dreams of Love Ivan Raykoff gives us a poetics of the concert pianist as a cultural figure of desire. He weds a graceful command of cultural theory to colorful histories of pianists' sound-bodies and technologies parallel to the piano, and he opens us to a world of piano movies, songs, and novels almost too rich to comprehend. -- James Parakilas, Bates College Exhaustively documented... It can be strongly recommended as a study in popular culture and the history of technology as well as music history. --ClassicalNet A fascinating and engaging book from beginning to end. --CHOICE

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Ivan Raykoff is Associate Professor of Music in the interdisciplinary arts program at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts in New York.

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