Glenn Kurtz

Infobox Writer
name = Glenn Kurtz
birth_place = Roslyn, New York, USA flagicon|USA
occupation = Writer
nationality = United States
genre = Memoir, creative nonfiction
subject = Classical Music, the Guitar
debut_work = (2007)
website = http://www.glennkurtz.com|www.glennkurtz.com]

Glenn Kurtz (b. 1962, Roslyn, New York,) is a writer and the author of "Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music" (Knopf, 2007; Vintage paperback, 2008). He lives in New York City, where he is currently working on a novel.cite web
url=http://glennkurtz.com/cgi-bin/iowa/bio/index.html
title=Glenn Kurtz on Glenn Kurtz
author=Glenn Kurtz
accessdate=2007-06-10]

Biography

Glenn Kurtz is a graduate of the New England Conservatory-Tufts University double degree program. He also holds a PhD from Stanford University in German Studies and Comparative Literature.His writing has been published in ZYZZYVA, Artweek, Tema Celeste, and elsewhere, and he has taught at Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and California College of the Arts.cite web |url=http://glennkurtz.com/cgi-bin/iowa/bio/index.html| title=Glenn Kurtz bio |author=Glenn Kurtz|accessdate=2008-08-03]

"Practicing"

Glenn Kurtz writes:

Practicing: A Musician’s Return to Music is a book about the dream of becoming an artist. Drawn from my experiences as a child performer and concert classical guitarist, Practicing tells the story of my youthful ambition to achieve musical artistry, the collapse of that ambition in my twenties, and my surprising return to music later in life. As a child and young adult, I practiced full of passion and expectation, certain I could change peoples’ lives with music. In my late twenties, despairing of a viable career as a classical guitarist, I quit in bitterness. For ten years, I couldn’t bear to touch the instrument. Now, in my forties, a lover of music chastened in my goals, I’ve returned to practicing to understand what went wrong, to learn to do it better.cite web |url=http://glennkurtz.com/cgi-bin/iowa/practicing/index.html| title=Glenn Kurtz on Practicing |author=Glenn Kurtz|accessdate=2007-06-10]

"Practicing" has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Times, and in other publications, and on radio broadcasts nationally (NPR).

Footnotes

References

*cite web
last = Colin
first = Chris
title = ON THE JOB: How To Fail Successfully: When to give up on our ambitions? Glenn Kurtz learned the answer the hard way
publisher = SFGate
url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/06/18/onthejob.DTL&hw=glenn+kurtz&sn=002&sc=828
access-date = 07-06-2008
date = Monday, June 18, 2007
*cite web
last = Itzkoff
first = Dave
date = October 28, 2007
url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/books/review/Itzkoff3-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=glenn+kurtz&st=nyt&oref=slogin
access-date = 07-06-2008
title = Music Chronicle
publisher = New York Times Sunday Book Review
*cite book
last = Kurtz
first = Glenn
title = Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music.
publisher = Alfred A. Knopf
place = New York
date = 2007
*cite web
last = Leddy
first = Chuck
url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/08/RVG26QM7RK1.DTL&hw=glenn+kurtz&sn=001&sc=1000
access-date = 07-06-2008
publisher = San Francisco Chronicle
title = The hard work that leads to imperfection: Guitarist makes his peace with limitations
date = Sunday, July 8, 2007
*cite web
publisher = National Public Radio
title = Weekend Edition with Scott Simon
url = http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12843867
access-date = 07-06-2008

Further reading

* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-kurtz Glenn Kurtz's blog at The Huffington Post]
*cite web
publisher = Alfred A. Knopf
title = Borzoi Reader: Catalog
url = http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307266156
access-date = 07-06-2008

*cite web
last = Garner
first = Dwight
title = Living with Music: A Playlist by Glenn Kurtz
url = http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/living-with-music-a-playlist-by-glenn-kurtz/
access-date = 07-06-2008
date = August 15, 2007
publisher = New York Times Blog