1/9 MONDAY - 1/11 WEDNESDAY — CLOSED FOR INVENTORY
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Join us for a literary Kaffeeklatsch! Books, coffee, snacks, and chats every Tuesday morning at MyAmour Café, located directly across from our first floor entrance.
HELD WEEKLY ON TUESDAYS
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How does music played and heard over many years inform one's sense of home? Writing during the COVID-19 pandemic, when travel was forbidden and distance felt anew, Edward Dusinberre, first violinist of the world-renowned Takács Quartet, searches for answers in the music of composers whose relationships to home shaped the pursuit of their craft—Antonín Dvořák, Edward Elgar, Béla Bartók, and Benjamin Britten.
Dusinberre has lived abroad for three decades. At the age of 21, he left his native England to pursue music studies at the Juilliard School in New York. Three years later he moved to Boulder, Colorado. Drawn to the stories of Dvořák's, Bartók's, and Britten's American sojourns as they tried to reconcile their new surroundings with nostalgia for their homelands, Dusinberre reflects on his own evolving relationship to England and the idea of home. As he visits and imagines some of the places crucial to these composers' creative inspiration, Dusinberre also reflects on Elgar's unusual Piano Quintet and the landscapes that inspired it.
Combining travel writing with revealing insights into the working lives of string quartet musicians, Distant Melodies is a moving and humorous meditation on the relationship between music and home.
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A Grammy Award-winning musician, Edward Dusinberre has been the first violinist of the Takács Quartet since 1993. He is an artist-in-residence and the Ralph E. and Barbara L. Christoffersen Faculty Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also a faculty member of the Music Academy of the West and a visiting fellow at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Dusinberre is the author of Beethoven for a Later Age: Living with the String Quartets, winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's 2016 Creative Communication Award. He has also won awards from Gramophone Magazine, the Japanese Recording Academy, and Chamber Music America. Outside of the quartet, he has made a recording of Beethoven's violin sonatas nos. 9 (Kreutzer) and 10 on the Decca label. |
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Fred Wenger is no stranger to relocating for work. Prior to becoming Rabbi for Congregation Kol Ami in 1987, he served congregations in Wisconsin, West Virginia, Kansas and Illinois. He also served as a US Army Chaplain in South Carolina and Vietnam. Following his retirement, Rabbi Wenger and Rochelle volunteered four months a year for several years at Hadassah Neurim and Nahalal Youth Villages in Israel. He also served as Rabbi-in-Residence at Congregation Beth Sholom, Anchorage, Alaska from 2004 to 2007. Rabbi Wenger has taught World Religions at Westminster College in Salt Lake City since 2001. He also served on the faculties of Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia and Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Rabbi Wenger currently teaches and provides rabbinic services to Congregation Kol Ami, the place the Wengers call home. |
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Join Catherine and the crafters of WBW in the store for casual bookish chinwags. All crafts and crafters welcome.
Please note: Lit Knit will be held only once this month.
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Weller Book Works Collectors' Book Salons feature libations and treats, social time for conversation and a special deal on rare books that is only available to guests. Books are bridges across the divides of time and space and like they embrace the diversity of the human experience, we try to keep our treats, speakers and deals diverse which is maybe another word for unpredictable.
In keeping with tradition, the first Collectors Book Salon of the year will be a sharing session. This year we are asking guests to select and share a valuable book that contains beautiful writing. Value? Beauty? You must navigate these abstracts by yourself. In the January salon, we’ll take turns showing our valuable and beautiful books.
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A message from Tony Weller
I believe in the power of environment and consider costume a piece of it. In that spirit I use our salons to play with attire and encourage guests to dress up, or down, or weird, or playfully, to help our sensibilities out of predictable zones.
Glasses filled at 6:30 and we muster for the Collectors’ Chat at 7:15 in our Rare Book Room. The event has no digital component.
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Come visit us!
SUNDAY 12-5
MONDAY-THURSDAY 10-8
FRIDAY & SATURDAY 10-9
UNUSUAL HOURS:
1/9 MONDAY – 1/11 WEDNESDAY: CLOSED FOR INVENTORY
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Can't make it to the store?
Support your local indie from home!
Order online or by phone, then pick up in-store or curbside! We also ship!
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Give us a call at 801-328-2586.
Browse our entire inventory of new, used and rare books on Biblio.com.
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Thanks for supporting your local, independent bookstore!
Weller Book Works | 801-328-2586
Store hours: Sunday 12PM–5PM | Monday–Thursday 10AM–8PM | Friday & Saturday 10AM–9PM
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