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43) Antonio Vivaldi
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1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
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English
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"Based on Vivaldi's Concerto for Oboe, RV447 and Concerto for two violins & cello, RV 565 this cutting-edge documentary styled film on Vivaldi takes a close look at his life and works and brings us to the Venice of Renaissance Italy, with its colourful re-creations of Carnival and commedia dell'arte festival."
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292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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A memoir of the author's decades-long friendship and spiritual journey with the late singer, songwriter, novelist, and poet Leonard Cohen.
"A memoir of the author's decades-long friendship and spiritual journey with the late singer, songwriter, novelist, and poet Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen passed away in late 2016, leaving behind many who cared for and admired him--but perhaps few knew him better than longtime friend Eric Lerner. Lerner, a screenwriter...
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English
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"A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich -- Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending. 1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, shot dead on the spot), he reflects...
48) Rhapsody
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344 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A fact-based historical novel, as compelling as Nancy Horan's New York Times bestseller, Loving Frank, set primarily in New York City in the 1920s and '30s and inspired by the decade-long relationship between the celebrated composer George Gershwin and Kay Swift, who was both his romantic partner and a gifted musician in her own right"--
1924. Katharine "Kay" Swift, restless but loyal society wife of wealthy banker James Warburg and a serious pianist...
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1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A celebration of the singer-songwriter's life and career from 1960s in New York to the music mecca of the 70s in Los Angeles to the present. Carole King joins collaborators and family in new interviews, while rare home movies, performances, and photos complete the tapestry.
50) Summer Bird Blue
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English
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Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her mother, and without music in her life, Rumi turns to the friendship of a teenage surfer named Kai, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe. And Rumi is determined to write the song she and...
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English
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Simon's memoir reveals her remarkable life, beginning with her storied childhood as the third daughter of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster, her musical debut as half of The Simon Sisters performing folk songs with her sister Lucy in Greenwich Village, to a meteoric solo career that would result in 13 top-40 hits, including the #1 song "You're So Vain." She was the first artist in history to win a Grammy Award,...
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401 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Aviva Rosner is at a crossroads. Her fourth album is about to be released -- and her manager says it's going to be big. But Aviva is focused on getting pregnant, which she can't seem to do. How far will she go to have a child? Is that what she really wants? And what about her music, and her growing obsession with Amy Winehouse?
On the eve of her fourth album, singer-songwriter Aviva Rosner is plagued by infertility. The twist: as much as Aviva wants...
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Documentary bringing Hollywood's elite composers together to give viewers a privileged look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of the world's most international music genre: the film score. Features interviews with nearly 60 composers, directors, orchestrators, studio musicians, producers, recording artists, studio executives, agents, and journalists.
Explores the challenges involved in composing and putting together a film score....
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English
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Rich in history, color, and imagination, a remarkable novel that pairs the seductive lost world of a creative legend with the coming of age of a young girl guided by an artistry all her own
In Barbara Quick's luminous novel, eighteenth-century Venice comes to life in all its splendor and decadence. The Grand Inquisitor's spies lurk everywhere, and yet the city's inhabitants abandon themselves to the revelry and masques of Carnival for half the year....
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xx, 604 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Presents fifty interviews with the Canadian composer and author conducted between 1966 and 2012, covering his method of composition, practice of Zen Buddhism, romantic entanglements, and experiences with producers, singers, fellow songwriters, and musicians.
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292 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Juliet Lyman is a senior executive at Yesterday Records. Music is her passion and she's very good at her job. That's why her famously philanthropic boss Gideon sends her to Majorca, Spain to work with a very tortured, but talented client. Lionel Harding is one of the best song writers of the 20th century, the multi-Grammy award-winning lyricist of the third most recorded song in history. But now he's 42 and six months overdue on his latest paid assignment....
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English
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"Arky Levin has reached a creative dead end. Guilty and restless after an unexpected separation from his wife, almost by chance he stumbles upon an art exhibit that will change his life. Based on a real piece of performance art, the installation that the fictional Arky Levin discovers is inexplicably powerful. Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art sit across a table from artist Marina Abramović for as short or long a period of time as they choose....
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