Julian Lloyd Webber: Travels With My Cello

Rating:
Summary: okay
Review: This is a slender collection of glib anecdotes and quotes, arranged in no particular order. I read it in one sitting (it took the better part of an hour) when I ought to have been practicing the cello instead. The author's off-hand conversational prose is very occasionally incoherent, and the author quotes Shostakovich once out of context in a deliberately misleading way in order to justify, apparently, what some might characterize as pandering, but otherwise I found it agreeable and moderately entertaining. If you check it out of the library, make sure you check out other books as well or you'll find yourself shortly with nothing to read.