![]() Keller plays his violin to a room full of prisoners in the most appalling surroundings. The Commandant wants to experiment - what happens when prisoners surrounded by abuse and death are offered hope? And is music, specifically Bach, that hope? Toward the end of World War II, German violinist Gottfried Keller is forced to play for a literally captive audience in an extermination camp. Discussions about The Savior are ongoing. Slipped Disc also hosts the Fortnightly Music Book Club. It's sort of a Real Housewives of Paris, London, Vienna, Rome and Dubuque. If you want to know who's been fired, who's getting a pricey divorce, who won this competition and who should have won that competition, then Slipped Disc is for you. ![]() Administered by British cultural pundit and bad boy Norman Lebrecht - a very witty and bright provocateur and a novelist himself - Slipped Disc bills itself as "the inside track on classical music and related cultures." I read about Drucker's novel over at Slipped Disc. This is certainly no Mozart in the Jungle sex with the maestro tome. ![]() And they've long had a home on Classical 101.īut I admit to being surprised to read that Drucker wrote a novel in 2007, The Savior. The Emersons have been established internationally for years. I knew of Eugene Drucker as a formidable violinist, and as a member of the acclaimed Emerson String Quartet. ![]()
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