{"product_id":"restrung-9781398565258","title":"Restrung","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eViolinist Vijay Gupta’s searing memoir of prodigy, ambition, collapse, and renewal reveals how music is not just performance but also survival, a lifeline of human connection - for readers of Jeremy Denk's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvery Good Boy Does Fine,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Hua Hsu's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eStay True\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, and Patrick Bringley’s \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll the Beauty in the World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Every page burns with moral conviction’ \u003cb\u003eAlex Ross, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Rest is Noise\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e​ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy age 25, Vijay Gupta had lived several lifetimes: he played Carnegie Hall at eight, studied at Juilliard and Yale before most had finished high school, joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic at nineteen, and launched a nonprofit. But behind the accolades was estrangement, addiction, and a private unravelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRestrung \u003c\/i\u003efollows him through the shimmering world of elite orchestras, into the depths of burnout, and ultimately toward an unexpected reawakening as he discovers the transformative power of music not in concert halls, but in Skid Row, where people living through addiction, homelessness, and incarceration heard it as survival itself. There, audiences saw themselves in the stories of composers too often frozen into marble busts: the rage of Beethoven, the fragility of Schumann and the plight of Handel. \u003ci\u003eRestrung \u003c\/i\u003eunsettles assumptions about success while illuminating how art restores not just audiences, but artists themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘What an astonishing courageous symphonic book. \u003ci\u003eRestrung\u003c\/i\u003e is a true gift – to be cherished to be talked about to be shared with everyone you know.’ \u003cb\u003eJunot Diaz, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Vijay challenges our conventional, calcified ideas about art and society, and most important: he walks the walk.’ \u003cb\u003eEsa-Pekka Salonen, composer, Creative Director of the LA Philharmonic and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre de Paris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This magnificent book is a chaconne, a journey through music and love and possibility that might change your life. Honest, heartfelt, and powerful. I couldn't put it down.’ \u003cb\u003eSeth Godin, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Song of Significance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vijay Gupta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56452615569750,"sku":"9781398565258","price":25.54,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9781398565258.jpg?v=1793655558","url":"https:\/\/www.bookshop.lv\/ru\/products\/restrung-9781398565258","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}