ca. 1930 — Violinist Fritz Kreisler with Dog — Image by © Austrian Archives/CORBIS / CC BY
Listening to music is one of the simple pleasures I indulge in to lend beauty and serenity to my workaday life. I’ve also found that music often sharpens my focus, and recently I was browsing on Amazon with the intention of treating myself to some new music to help me concentrate while writing. Like many people, I gravitate towards what I’m familiar and comfortable with, and since I grew up immersed in classical music—I’m especially partial to the Baroque composers—I had it in mind to look for a Baroque anthology, or maybe a collection of quiet cello pieces. But one click led to another—you know how that goes when you’re surfing the Internet—and somehow I found myself on the product page for world-renowned violinist Joshua Bell’s The Kreisler Album CD.
