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From Ear to Ear: A Pianist's Love Affair with Song

From Ear to Ear: A Pianist's Love Affair with Song


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While other kids were enjoying the head-bashing pleasures of tackle football, a freshly bar mitzvahed Steven Blier was inhaling operas and getting his first taste of accompanying professional singers. From Ear to Ear recounts his picaresque and unfailingly entertaining road to a successful career as a collaborative pianist, bringing to life his partnerships with iconic performers like Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Jessye Norman, Cecilia Bartoli, and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, and beloved mentors, including Alvin Epstein and Martha Schlamme. Drawing on his innovative work as a vocal coach and concert producer with his acclaimed New York Festival of Song, he takes readers deep into his artistic process. But Blier also tells a parallel story: his lifelong battle with a rare form of muscular dystrophy. Aided by his intense determination, as well as his wry sense of humor, Blier continues his life at the piano. As Adam Gopnik writes in his foreword, From Ear to Ear is "genuinely heroic, a testament to the power of music."



About the Author :
Steven Blier is a Grammy Award–winning pianist, acclaimed accompanist, and co-founder and artistic director of the New York Festival of Song. He has taught at the Juilliard School since 1992 and lives in New York City. Adam Gopnik is a staff writer at The New Yorker and has written for the magazine since 1986. He has three National Magazine awards for essays and for criticism. The author of numerous best-selling books, including Paris to the Moon, he lives in New York City.

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I have spent many hours learning from Steven Blier in the rehearsal studio, on the concert stage, and at his kitchen table. Still, as I devoured the wisdom, wit, honesty, and humanity of From Ear to Ear, I felt that I was meeting Steve for the first time. Effortlessly good-humored and rich with musical insight, Steven's storytelling is as warm on the page as it is from the stage. A must read for any artist, as it testifies to the power of individuality, grit, and passion in the face of adversity.

--Peter Dugan, concert pianist and host of NPR's "From the Top" From Ear to Ear overflows with the same wit and charm Steve Blier brings to the stage. He makes you feel like family.--Sasha Cooke, Two-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781324005483
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publisher Imprint: WW Norton & Co
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 562 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1324005483
  • Publisher Date: 18 Nov 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Pianist's Love Affair with Song
  • Width: 160 mm


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