![]() ![]() The book is called "The Violin Conspiracy," and I asked author Brendan Slocumb how much of his own life is reflected in Ray's character. But as a Black man in classical music, a missing instrument is not Ray's only problem. KHALID: Today Brendan Slocumb has made a career out of playing and teaching the violin - kind of like the protagonist of his new novel, Ray McMillan, who is about to perform in the International Tchaikovsky Competition when his precious Stradivarius violin is stolen. You know, I hardly knew how to hold my violin at that point when I heard it. SLOCUMB: I said, one day I'm going to play that. (SOUNDBITE OF JERUSALEM STRING QUARTET PERFORMANCE OF DVORAK'S "STRING QUARTET NO. KHALID: The next piece he fell for was Dvorak's "String Quartet No. And I just - I fell in love with it that day. SLOCUMB: I was like, what is going on? What kind of music is this? This is totally new. ![]() It's a Mozart.Īnd for some reason, that just stuck with me, and I thought that was the greatest thing in the world. SLOCUMB: My music teacher, Miss Holmes (ph) when I was in third grade - she said, you can always tell it's Mozart by this little song. (SOUNDBITE OF ORCHESTRA DA CAMERA FIORENTINA PERFORMANCE OF MOZART'S "SYMPHONY NO. Brendan Slocumb remembers that moment that classical music just clicked for him.īRENDAN SLOCUMB: The first piece of classical music that I heard was Mozart's "Symphony No. ![]()
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