noteneral music teacher, piano teacher but music theory repertoire style, walter levine, who was the file invest with the lasalle string quartet. he took me. even though i was only 13. in marlborough, there is not yet the concert hall there will is now. we used have concerts in the dining hall. it was converted into a concert hall after lunch. there about much ensemble at making music with other people that from then on, the idea of just developing as a solo pianist went away for me and i had to make music with other people, all kinds, chamber pieces, songs, and little by little, i got the bug about and oratorio and operatic repertoire. there was only one person there who was a coach/conductor to tutte. theysi fan asked me if i could put the pianists together and make a backstage course. and i did. there was an anybody there to do it. i got bitten by the opera conducting bug. ♪ >> we thought that this year -- how would you describe what you're going to do this year? >> were going to do a new production which we haven't done in many years. >> 50 years. >> i have done a good number of

and i had from the time i was 10 or 11 i had walter levine, first violinist of the lasalle quartet fortheory, harmony, repertoire, for style, he even coached me on the instrument playing chamber music for his students t was an unbelievable education, starting-- it was the kind that one goes to college for but i was 11 when i started it. and then i went for example, to marlboro. and there was rudolph and claude frank and theres what a whole community of brilliant teaching musicians. and then i went to aspen to study with rossin a la vine because she was the most dynamic teacher of the instrument at the time. and she was very well-known for working on technique. but she took me knowing full well that i was trying to use the piano as a tool for conducting mostly. and i didn't know how much i wanted to perform on the piano. turned out i did want to, and did do quite a-- quite a lot more than i pictured when i started. but she was-- she was very willing to start with me when i was 14, the year after i was with zurkin. and in aspen every year were-- well, first of all darius mio, the great m

. >> adele levine talks about her expenses as a physical therapist at walter reed army medical center and provides profiles of some of the veterans she worked with. this is about 45 minutes and it starts now on booktv. >> okay. i'm barbara meade. i'm one of the founders along with carla cohen of politics and prose. and i don't have a physical therapists but i haven't exercise therapist. about three weeks ago my exercise therapist gave me a copy of "run, don't walk" she didn't give it to me, she loaned it to me. and said please read this. i think you'll find it very, very interesting. which i did immediately. and then i ran, not walked to politics and prose to sign up to introduce the author when she came. answer today is the day that she is here. adele levine received her master's degree and doctorate in physical therapy from the university of maryland school of medicine, and then worked at walter reed rehabilitating soldiers who have lost limbs in the wars in iraq and afghanistan. walter reed is not only america's largest military hospital, but also has the world's leading military h

on "after words," and our prime time programming continues with adele levine who recalls her time as a physical therapist at walter reed army medical center. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> booktv asked, what are you reading this summer? >> i try to keep a lot of different things going, and some of the books i'm reading is "lincoln's boys," the secretaries' impact on the administration. reading "founding of brothers" about how they actually did some things that are off the normal record, so that was really interesting to me. one that is sort of interesting in the latter context is a week called "roosevelt's secret war," and it's about the starting of our international espionage and how he started that in a real hodgepodge kind of way. so that's made an interesting read especially in light of all the things going on currently with the nsa and cia and the things that we have, pertinent perspective. another one i'm reading is "obama's enforcer," probably my most political book of the scherr, current political -- summer. but i think it goes to the heart of what we're doing in congress and the executiv

. >> adele levine talks with her expenses as a physical therapist at walter reed army medical center and provides profiles of some of the veterans she worked with. this is about 45 minutes, and it starts now on booktv. >> okay. i'm barbara meade, one of the founders along with carla cohen of politics and prose. and i don't have a physical therapist i have and exercise therapist, and about three weeks ago exercise therapist gave me a copy of "run, don't walk," and she didn't give it to be. be. she let it to me, and said please read this. i think you will find it very, very interesting. and which i did immediately. then and then iran, not walk, to politics and prose to sign up to introduce the author when she he came. and so today is the day that shc is here. adele levine received herer mast masters degree in doctorate inde physical therapy from th mniversity of maryland school oo medicine, and then worked at walter reed rehabilitating soldiers who have lost limbs inb the wars in iraq andghnistan afghanistan. . walter reed isn't only america's largest military hospital but also has the

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