By Deb Caletti
Seventeen-year-old Cassie Morgan lives with a time bomb (a.k.a. her stepfather, Dino Cavalli). To the general public, Dino is a world-renowned violin participant and composer. To Cassie, he is an erratic, self-centered bully. And he is getting worse: He not sleeps, and he grows more and more paranoid. earlier than, Cassie was once indignant. Now she is afraid. input Ian Waters: an excellent younger violinist, and Dino's first-ever pupil. The minute Cassie lays eyes on Ian she understands she's doomed. Cassie suggestion she understood that love might deliver ache, yet this union may have results she couldn't have imagined. finally, just one factor turns into transparent: on this planet of madness, not anything is sacred....
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I mean, it all got toned down in the papers, but we all know what could have happened to William Tiero that day. We all now know what happens when you self- 1 Dawson Cook, "Cavalli Strikes a Perfect Note" Strad Magazine (April 1996): 12-15. ' Alice Lambert, "The Season's Best" Strad Magazine (May 1989): 20-22. 5 destruct. Yet I've got to say, listening to his music can make you cry. Goose bumps actually rise up along your arms. Everyone wants to get close to genius and fame, claim pieces of it, mostly because it's the closest they'll ever get to fame themselves.
I liked astronomy. It was that thing you do when you first fall in love. Where you think you must be soul mates because you each get hungry at lunch time and both blink when a large object is thrown your way. I started to put the pieces together. Boy with violin, Dino and his study. Maybe Dino was giving him some kind of lesson. But Dino wasn't a teacher. First, the best music teachers weren't necessarily virtuoso players. I knew that. Teachers are usually teachers and players are players. As far as I knew, Dino had never taken a student before.
A machine can play an instrument, but it is that something of yourself that you bring to it that makes a player really good. That piece of your soul that you reveal as the music comes through you. I know nothing of this personally--I played the tissue paper comb in the kindergarten band--but you can hear it. You may not have words for it, but you can hear it. Maybe feel it is more accurate. There is a communication going on at some ancient and primitive level when music is played from somewhere else other than simply the fingers.