Anthea Kreston: Crescendo
Grass Roots is honored to host Anthea Kreston for her memoir, Crescendo. Weaving together music and stories from her book, and performing on the violin that was stolen on a fast train in Germany, she delights with tales both tragic and funny.
When American violinist Anthea Kreston is selected as the fourth member of Germany’s Artemis Quartet, it is the culmination of decades of dedication. In Crescendo, her enchanting and deeply personal memoir, Kreston writes about growing up in a well-to-do but difficult family in Chicago, leaving home at sixteen, studying at the ultracompetitive Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia (Hilary Hahn was a classmate), then leaving it all behind for a commune in Oregon.
