Mark MitchellVirtuosi
A Defense and a (Sometimes Erotic) Celebration of Great Pianists
Preliminary Table of Contents:
The Less Fractious World
1. The Triumph of Marsyas
2. "Le concert, c'est moi"
3. The Critic and the Spider
After Two Concerts
4. Notes on Gourmandism
5. The Circus
6. The Nature of the Bis
7. "The Colour of Classics"
Of Paris
8. Some Virtuosi in Literature
9. The Virtuoso at Home
10. Possibilities of a Homosexual Aesthetic of Virtuosity
11. Celluloid
12. "The pianola 'replaces' Sappho's barbitos"
13. Musical Chairs; or, Il virtuoso seduto
14. "Aut Caesar, aut nihil"
Aristocracy
15. Muscles and Soul
16. Mephistopheleses in Soutanes
The Angel of the Mud
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