Part I. The early years

Early life. Mr Hurlimann ; Wanting to be a chamber musician ; New York and the Institute of Musical Art ; The discipline of chamber music

Naumburg competition

Army years

Part II. Quartet life

The Juilliard String Quartet is born. Tempi and contemporary music ; Playing in a string quartet

Mentors. Felix Salmond ; Eugene Lehner

Family. Lucy ; Family travels ; Traveling with children ; Family concerts

Musical journeys. Germany and Hanns Eisler ; Frankfurt ; Italy ; Russia and Gerda ; South America and Lucy ; Aspen, Colorado

Tools of the trade. The Strad

Part III. Relationships

Composers and recordings. Arnold Schoenberg ; Elliott Carter ; Aaron Copland and Lukas Foss ; Béla Bartók and Peter Bartók ; Columbia Records ; Glenn Gould ; Grammy Awards

Luminaries. Oscar Kokoschka ; Willem de Kooning ; Albert Einstein ; Dudley Moore ; Leonard Bernstein ; Menuhin, Ricci, and Stern ; Itzhak Perlman ; Seiji Ozawa ; Modern Jazz Quartet, John Lewis, Billy Taylor ; The Smothers Brothers television show

Part IV. Looking back

Renaissance Mann. Teaching ; Conducting ; Composing

Musings

Leaving the Juilliard String quartet after 51 years

Part V. Remarks from coaching sessions

Michigan State University

Part VI. Letters to Lisa

Selected letters: Asia tour Spring 1961

Part VII. Coda

Creative expressions

Photo gallery

Aspen Institute Lecture: The cold war between Apollonia and Dionysia

Aspen Institute Lecture: Mencius and the late Beethoven String Quartet

Excerpt from Allan Kozinn interview

Juilliard String Quartet family tree.