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Barcode30293102398638
StatusIn Processing
LocationClark County
Call No327.1273 Gold
TitleNotes of deception : how a quartet of American musicians outwitted the KGB / Merryl Goldberg and Vince Houghton.
AuthorGoldberg, Merryl Ruth, author.
CollectionNF
Total Circ0
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102398638327.1273 Gold10/17/2026 In Processing 

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781335016348 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 1335016341 (hardcover)
Personal Name Goldberg, Merryl Ruth, author.
Title Statement Notes of deception : how a quartet of American musicians outwitted the KGB / Merryl Goldberg and Vince Houghton.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Toronto, Onatrio : Hanover Square Press, 2026.
Physical Description xxi, 277 pages, 16 unnumbered pages plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277).
Formatted Contents Note Foreword -- Overture -- Atonal -- Da Capo -- Ostinato -- Etude -- Adagio -- Giocoso -- Libretto -- Affannato -- Obbligato -- Spiccato -- Poco a poco -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on notes.
Summary, Etc. "In 1985, while the United States engaged in a battle of nuclear brinkmanship, four Americans landed in Moscow on a mission to smuggle secret information in and out using music as their cipher. Under the watchful eye of the KGB, the group faced countless challenges and risks -- because they weren't trained in espionage. In fact, they were musicians with the New England-based Yiddish-music focused Klezmer Conservatory Band (KCB). Now, the quartet's saxophonist, Merryl Goldberg, together with Vince Houghton, the Director of the National Security Agency's National Cryptologic Museum, tell the harrowing story of how Goldberg devised an ingenious plan to encode the intelligence within the group's sheet music." -- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Goldberg, Merryl Ruth.
Subject-Corporate Name Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti.
Subject-Corporate Name Klezmer Conservatory Band.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Cold War.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Espionage, American.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Espionage, Russian.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Band musicians.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Communism and music.
Index Term-Genre/Form Memoirs.
Added Entry, Personal Name Houghton, Vince, author.

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