Felix Khuner – A Violinist's Journey from Vienna's Kolisch Quartet to the San Francisco Symphony and Opera Orchestra

This book of conversations with a member of the world-renowned Kolisch Quartet appears in our catalogue thanks to the fact that his closest desk partner in the ensemble was Eugene Lehner, a cousin of Ján Albrecht. Khuner's narrative reveals the transformation of Vienna's world of yesterday into a monstrous anti-Jewish machinery that drove hundreds of thousands of Central Europeans into exile and compelled them to make new lives in the United States. His bittersweet commentary on his own life and the lives of his closest colleagues and family offers a glimpse into the musical and cultural worlds of both the Old and New continents, seen through the lens of quintessential Jewish humour.