All the Things You Are: Essays

In this new collection Toren explores the musicality of personal life in essays describing the spirit of the pre-dawn gloaming, the allure of half-forgotten childhood memories, the wisdom of Tin Pan Alley, and the anxieties and satisfactions of singing in a choir. An ebullient energy animates both the book's lyrical prose and the author's breezy, conversational approach to his chosen themes. --