"A novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder."-- 1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know...

When young Anna Holz, a Viennese music student is asked to transcribe scoring notes for the great Ludwig van Beethoven, she eagerly accepts. She does so despite the warnings about Beethoven's volatile behavior. Beethoven is part maestro, part mentor and part madman. He reluctantly relies on Anna to help him realize the culmination of his art.

Music director Michael Tilson Thomas and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony go from the salons of St. Petersburg to the villages where Stravinsky found inspiration in the earthy power of Russian folk music and dance. Thomas then retraces Stravinsky's journey to the cultural crossroads of pre-war Paris, where the composer collaborates with the great impresario Diaghilev and his star dancer Nijinsky to develop the shocking, erotic, and violent...

This updated and expanded edition of the perennial favorite traces the line of composers from Monteverde to the tonalists of the 1990s. Schonberg discusses the lives and works of the foremost figures in classical music, weaving a fabric rich in detail and anecdote.

This enthralling live concert celebrates a fusion of classical music, classic rock, and opera, telling the universal story of the human condition in the way that only music that has touched the hearts of multiple generations can.

"Einstein. Beethoven. Picasso. Trabajos. La palabra genio evoca a estas figuras ic̤nicas, cuyas contribuciones han transformado de forma irreversible a la sociedad. Sin embargo, Beethoven no sab̕a multiplicar, Picasso reprob̤ Matem̀ticas en la primaria y Jobs dej̤ la universidad despǔs del primer semestre. ¿Qǔ dice esto sobre c̤mo medimos el x̌ito en la actualidad? ¿Por qǔ nos ensęan a comportarnos seg͠n las reglas, cuando los genios...