Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword by Jim Svejda -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Bucharest to Portland and Back -- 2. I Become a Violinist -- 3. New York and Kneisel -- 4. More Kneisel - Auer - Graduation - Chamber Music -- 5. The Musical Art Quartet Is Launched: I Become an Art Collector -- 6. The Musical Art Quartet -- 7. In Baltimore and Capri with the Musical Art Quartet -- 8. Paris! -- 9. Italian Concerts: Encore Paris -- 10. "The Real Thing" : Romance and Annette -- 11. Together in Europe - Our Honeymoon -- 12. Hometown Triumph and California Here We Come! -- 13. The Goal: Los Angeles -- 14. Hollywood: The Golden Years -- 15. Another Aspect of Hollywood - Art and Music: William Grant Still - Darius Milhaud -- 16. Bernard Herrmann - Another View: Other Friends, Anthony Collins - Herrmann's Rebirth and Apotheosis -- 17. Concert Opportunities - Works Progress Administration: Music - Art - Theater - Trail-blazing -- 18. Vivaldi Discovers Me - We Meet Francis Poulenc - Historic Recordings -- 19. En Route to France via Honolulu -- 20. En Route to Venice via Zurich - after Visiting Poulenc -- 21. Unfinished Business: Meeting Malipiero -- 22. Brussels con Moto: Paris Recordings - Arrival in Brussels - Fateful Meeting with Paul Collaer -- 23. More Poulenc, More Brussels: Paris Premiere of 'Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Invenzione' -- 24. Introducing Vivaldi to America: Opus 9 Reveals Another Masterpiece - the Paris Premiere of 'La Cetra' -- 25. Unexpected North African Tour: Paris Friends! -- 26. We Meet Samuel Barber in San Francisco - Drama in Holland: Friendships with Artists -- 27. South American Adventures -- 28. Utrecht Recordings - War Crimes - Search for Spohr -- 29. Paris - the Survivor - Maryan -- 30. London Adventures in Music and Art -- 31. Northern Exposure -- 32. Miracle in Milan: Recording in Paris.

33. Return to Los Angeles: Korngold Memorial Concert -- 34. Adventures behind the Iron Curtain -- 35. Recordings at Last and Lebduska Mystery -- 36, Cousin Mico Kaufman, Sculptor -- 37. The Dybbuk - a Devil to Produce -- 38. From Sicily to Tahiti -- 39. Hazardous Travel -- Postscript -- Appendix 1 - Reviews -- Appendix 2 - Los Angeles Program Notes, 9 December 1956 -- Appendix 3 - The Changing Recording World -- Appendix 4 - Violin Editions of Louis Kaufman -- Appendx 5 - A Louis Kaufman's Filmography: Concertmaster in the Golden Years, a Partial List -- Louis Kaufman Discography -- Bibliography -- Index -- Louis Kaufman CD Playlist.