Pictures from the Exhibition

Pictures from the Exhibition is a collection of nearly fifty short stories from the life and surroundings of the outstanding violinist and pedagogue Viliam Kořínek (1915–2006). The reason for their creation, as the author explains, was the "amusing results of serious endeavours". Anecdotes from Philharmonic and other tours and concerts lead the reader into the world of musicians, which occupies a singular place in the universe. They are an attempt to "capture each person more truly than they are in reality" in both word and drawing — for the author accompanies his stories with accomplished caricatures. In the book we find those aspects of significant personalities of Slovak and European musical culture that do not feature in official biographies…