THE LATE STARTERS ORCHESTRA

Book ID/图书代码： 00342514B71477

English Summary/英文概要： In a cluttered room in an abandoned coat factory in lower Manhattan, a group of musicians comes together each week to make music. Some are old, some are young, all have come late to music or come back to it after a long absence. This is the Late Starters Orchestra--the bona fide amateur string orchestra where Ari Goldman pursues his lifelong dream of playing the cello.

Goldman hadn’t seriously picked up his cello in twenty-five years, but the Late Starters (its motto, If you think you can play, you can) seemed just the right orchestra for this music lover whose busy life had always gotten in the way of its pursuit.

In The Late Starters Orchestra, Goldman takes us along to LSO rehearsals and lets us sit in on his son’s Suzuki lessons, where we find out that children do indeed learn differently from adults. He explores history’s greatest cellists and also attempts to understand what motivates his fellow late starters, amateurs all, whose quest is for joy, not greatness. And when Goldman commits to playing at his upcoming birthday party we wonder with him whether he’ll be good enough to perform in public. To the rescue comes the ghost of Goldman’s first cello teacher, the wise and eccentric Mr. J, who continues to inspire and guide him--about music and more--through this well-tuned journey.

With enchanting illustrations by Eric Hanson, The Late Starters Orchestra is about teachers and students, fathers and sons, courage and creativity, individual perseverance and the power of community. And Ari Goldman has a message for anyone who has ever had a dream deferred: it’s never too late to find happiness on one’s own terms.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一些音乐家每星期都会到曼哈顿下城区废弃工厂的一间小破屋中做音乐。他们中有年轻人，也有老年人，有些人很晚才开始学习乐器，有些则是放下很久了又重新捡起来。这支乐队的名称叫做后发管弦乐队，这支业余的管弦乐队使阿里•高曼可以追求他长久以来想要演奏大提琴的梦想。

严格来说，高曼已经25年没有演奏过大提琴了，但后发乐队的宗旨就是如果你觉得你行，你就行，似乎正适合高曼这种热爱音乐，却因为忙碌的工作无法追求音乐梦想的人。在《后发管弦乐队》中，高曼带领读者来到了伦敦交响乐团的排练现场，领略了他儿子的铃木课程，读者会发现孩子的确需要学习些不同于家长理念的东西。高曼研究了历史上最伟大的大提琴家，还试图去理解究竟是什么驱动着自己的这些后发同僚们做音乐只是为了快乐，而不是要什么大成就。高曼承诺要在他即将到来的生日派对上演奏大提琴的时候，大家都在怀疑他的水平是否已经可以在众人面前表演。此时，高曼的第一位大提琴老师J先生的鬼魂出现了，智慧而古怪的J先生指引鼓励高曼走过了这段美妙的音乐之旅。

《后发管弦乐队》中还附有艾瑞克•汉森精美的插画，讲述了老师与学生，父亲与儿子，勇气与创造，个人毅力和团队力量的故事。阿里•高曼想告诉各位的是想要追求属于自己的快乐永远都不会太晚。（XAT）

Awards/获奖情况：“《后发管弦乐队》不仅仅是一部音乐回忆录，它还娓娓地告诉读者不要害怕老去，给老去一个机会。”——《书目》

“读《后发管弦乐队》让我觉得很愉快，感动，还有他对于那种有些事情不做就再也没有机会做的遗憾描绘得很到位。阿里•高曼对于演奏大提琴的追求鼓舞了所有的梦想家。”——莱蒂•科坦•波格瑞宾，《如何成为病人的朋友》作者

“More than just a memoir about music and all that it offers; it is also a warm and moving testament to the opportunities of aging.” —Booklist

“The Late Starters Orchestra is a joy to read--moving, funny, and deeply true in its depiction of those aspirations we put aside until, one day, we realize it’s now or never. Ari Goldman’s quest to master the cello is an inspiration for dreamers everywhere.” —Letty Cottin Pogrebin, author of How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick

About the Author/作者介绍： 阿里•L•高曼是哥伦比亚大学新闻学的教授，并著有三部著作，其中包括非常畅销的《在哈佛寻找上帝》。高曼在《纽约时代周刊》工作了20余年，1993年到哥伦比亚大学教书。他的论文也经常会被刊登在《华盛顿邮报》、《纽约日报》、《耶路撒冷邮报》和《哥伦比亚新闻观察报》中，他目前还是《纽约犹太周报》的媒体专栏作家。 高曼出生于康涅狄格州，哈特福德市，先后在叶史瓦大学，哥伦比亚大学和哈佛大学接受过教育。高曼的作品有《成为犹太人：当今犹太人的精神和文化行为》，以及回忆录《犹太人的生活》。他是以色列富布莱特奖学金的客座教授，英国牛津大学的会员，斯特恩学院的驻校学者，还为许多杂志撰稿。 作为斯克里普斯•霍华德计划的负责人，他为以色列、约旦、俄罗斯、乌克兰、印度、爱尔兰和意大利的学生开设宗教讲座。高曼还是大屠杀教育项目的成员，教授伦理学。 高曼加入后发管弦乐队，成为一名业余大提琴演奏家的故事成为了他新书的主题。高曼和妻子希拉•迪克以及三个孩子现居于纽约。 Ari L. Goldman is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and the author of three books, including the bestselling The Search for God at Harvard. Goldman arrived at Columbia in 1993, after spending twenty years at the New York Times, most of them as a religion writer. His articles and columns have also appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the Jerusalem Post, and the Columbia Journalism Review. He is the media columnist for the New York Jewish Week.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, and educated at Yeshiva University, Columbia, and Harvard, Goldman’s books include Being Jewish: The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today and a memoir, Living a Year of Kaddish. He has been a visiting Fulbright professor in Israel, a Skirball Fellow at Oxford University in England, and a scholar-in-residence at Stern College, the women’s college of his alma mater, Yeshiva University. He serves on the boards of several organizations, including the Jewish Book Council.

As the director of the Scripps Howard Program in Religion, Journalism, and Spiritual Life at Columbia, he teaches the popular “Covering Religion” seminar that in recent years has taken students on study tours of Israel, Jordan, Russia, Ukraine, India, Ireland, and Italy. He is also a faculty member of a Holocaust education program called Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics.

His adventures as an amateur cellist--he plays with the New York Late Starters String Orchestra--is the subject of his newest book, The Late Starters Orchestra. He and his wife, Shira Dicker, are the proud parents of three children and live in New York City.

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