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3) Beethoven
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.)
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English
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Complete with a 50-minute CD of excerpts from his most revered works, a picture book provides a comprehensive look at the life, times, inspirations, and accomplishments of one of the world's most celebrated composers.
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xx, 281 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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James Rhodes' passion for music has been his lifeline -- the thread that has held through a life of abuse and turmoil. But whether listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatized teenager or discovering a Bach adagio while in a hospital ward, he survived his demons by encounters with musical miracles. These -- along with a chance encounter with a stranger -- inspired him to become the renowned concert pianist he is today. Instrumental is a memoir...
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352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"A history of the 1960 US presidential election with a focus on the role played by the imprisonment of Martin Luther King Jr. in the wake of an Atlanta sit-in"--
Less than three weeks before the 1960 presidential election, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested at a sit-in in Atlanta. An earlier, minor traffic ticket served as a pretext for keeping King locked up, and he was transfered to Reidsville, the notorious Georgia state prison where Black inmates...
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xvi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Some pieces of music survive; most fall into oblivion. What gives the ten masterpieces selected for this book their extraordinary vitality? In this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, takes readers into the heart of ten great works of classical music--works that have endured because they were created by composers who had a genius for drawing music out of their deepest wellsprings. These masters--Mozart...
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