1st Edition

Musical Mosaic A Journey through Music: A Memoir

By Eric Antoni Copyright 2021
190 Pages 12 Color & 23 B/W Illustrations
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

190 Pages 12 Color & 23 B/W Illustrations
by Jenny Stanford Publishing

Follow a multi-faceted journey by an improviser and a musicosopher, Eric Antoni, from the cobbled streets of Paris to the Far East. Musical Mosaic lays coherent excursus of the author’s thought-provoking collection of anecdotes. With the absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature, the book is full of compassionate truthful descriptions of persons and experiences and... Read more
 1. Orpheus's Odyssey: Monteverdi, Bach, Ravel   2. Elsewhere and Now: An Enchanted Game-Land   3. Mediology, an Interpretative Art   4. A Concertante Autobiography   5. Two Indonesian Seers   6. The Ear and the Voice: In Opera, in Cinema, in Real Life   7. A Few Steps Forward

Biography

Eric Antoni studied piano, improvisation, and musicology at Conservatoire de Pantin, France, from 1971 to 1976 and with renowned teachers such as Martine Joste (piano, Pantin) and Max Deutsch (musical analysis, 1979–1982, Paris). He is professor at Institut Télécom ParisTech, France, where he teaches piano, improvisation, and the history of opera. His texts have been published in musical reviews such as Silences (Paris, 1985–1988), Il Suono gli onde (Rome, 1990 and 2013) by the Isabella Scelsi Foundation, and Le Banian (Paris, 2012–2018). Prof. Antoni’s musicological writings have been translated into English, Italian, and Spanish (see http://ericantoni.com). Some of his publications at Institut Télécom ParisTech are Les fondements de la musicosophie (1996), De l’utilité de la musicosophie (1998), and 1607–1945, Une Odyssée Lyrique (2011).