When the Music Stopped: Discovering My Mother by Thomas J. Cottle
When the Music Stopped: Discovering My Mother by Thomas J. Cottle
English | Mar 2004 | ISBN: 0791459985, 0791459977 | 297 Pages | PDF | 684 kb
English | Mar 2004 | ISBN: 0791459985, 0791459977 | 297 Pages | PDF | 684 kb
This is the story of one woman's decision to forfeit a brilliant career for the sake of motherhood. Once a child prodigy, Gitta Gradova traveled the world as an internationally acclaimed concert pianist, performing recitals as well as appearing with prominent orchestras of her era. Her son Thomas J. Cottle uses written records, interviews, and personal reminiscence, to reconstruct her life, as well as their own mother-son relationship. He is at times a storyteller, at times a psychologist, at times a son seeking to uncover those aspects of his mother's life he could never know, or perhaps, chose not to know until it was too late.