The Pleasure Was Ours: Personal Encounters with the Greats, the Near-Greats and the Ingrates

In this memoir the authors share their incredibly good fortune and joy in having spent their lives in music with so many superb, profoundly gifted artists who have touched and electrified the world with their artistry. They were blessed by the days spent with recreative geniuses like Toscannini, Isaac Stern, Yo Yo Ma, Leontyne Price, Brigit Nilsson, Roberta Peters, Emanuel Feurmann, Ravi Shankar, and many more. They traveled the world over, creating friendships with extraordinary talents in other arts as well, and with royality and political leaders. Their tales are often humorous.