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686 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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"A pivotal twentieth-century composer, Samuel Barber earned a long list of honors and accolades that included two Pulitzer Prizes for Music and the public support of figures like Serge Koussevitzky and Marian Anderson. Barber's works have since became standard in concert repertoire and continue to flourish across high art and popular culture. Acclaimed biographer Howard Pollack (George Gershwin, Aaron Copland) offers a multifaceted account of Barber's...
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"Bern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the world's preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick Delaney, Bern knows everything there is to know about the man behind the music. When Mallory Roberts, a board member of the distinguished Delaney Foundation and direct descendant of the man himself, asks for Bern's help authenticating a newly discovered piece, which may be his famous lost opera, RED,...
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ix, 564 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"From a frequent music and culture contributor to The New Yorker, the mysterious, true story of the life of Connie Converse -- a mid-century New York City singer/songwriter whose haunting music never found recognition -- and the tale of one man's quest to uncover the truth"--
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273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see myself in others." Like Dylan's songs, this book is a work...
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360 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A biography of Mozart-his music, his life, and his legacy-by the poet Patrick Mackie"--
"Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but how much do we really understand of his music, and what can it reveal to us about the great composer? Following Mozart from his youth in Salzburg to his early death; from his close and rivalrous relationship with his father to his romantic attachments; from his hugely successful operas...
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1 unnumbered volume : color illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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"This uplifting read-aloud is a heartfelt wish for all children and a timeless introduction to the Grammy Award-winning and multi platinum singer and songwriter. You are fearless presents Taylor Swift's inspirational journey, encouraging children to be fearless, defy limits, and follow their hearts. Perfect for Swifties of all ages!"--
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397 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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"En el medio, cuatrocientas páginas de memorias cuyo etiquetado frontal debiera advertir: altas en emoción, agudísimas en cultura pop, refinadas, bestiales, amorosas, explícitas. Fito Páez pasó el encierro pandémico recordando y escribiendo, repasando y puliendo episodios, ajustando cuentas y desarreglando todo lo demás, en un ejercicio de introspección al que la palabra "prodigioso" le queda pintada. De la infancia rosarina narrada en travelling...
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162 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, an artist in her late twenties keeps a record of her year -- one filled with a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters -- as she reorients her relationship to the world while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.
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xii, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits and sold millions and millions of records. Together, they were a duo, a unit, an immovable object. Their extraordinary half-century-and-counting creative relationship has been chronicled in biopics (like 2019's Rocketman)...
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264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Dave Karger--Turner Classic Movies on-air host, entertainment media darling, and the Oscars expert--offers a one-of-a-kind collection of original interviews with an A-list lineup of Oscar winners discussing the highs, lows, and never-before-told tales of Hollywood's most storied awards show"--
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vii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Ethel Smyth (b. 1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b. 1886): The talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty and one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestra, later celebrated for her modernist experimentation. Dorothy Howell (b. 1898): A prodigy who shot to fame at the 1919 Proms, her popularity as...
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"This compelling study examines the remarkable relationship between the Nazis and classical music through the stories of musicians, composers, and conductors across the political spectrum. May 1945. A Soviet military patrol searches Hitler's secret bunker in Berlin. They find bodies, documents, jewelry, paintings-and also an extensive collection of 78 rpm records. It comes as no surprise that this collection includes work by Beethoven, Wagner, and...
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xvi, 449 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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English
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"Minimalism changed everything. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition. Hip, young listeners flocked to a genre that had long been insular and academic, packing concert halls and buying millions of records. But minimalism wasn't just a classical phenomenon: its static harmonies and groovy pulses swept through the avant-garde landscape,...
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"A stirring account of how the flowering of the European Enlightenment, two World Wars, and the Holocaust can be remembered through the poignant works of music created in their wake"--
When it comes to how societies remember these increasingly distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of history books, archives, documentaries, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time's Echo, the award-winning critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler...
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