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Handel, Who Knew What He Liked
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M. T. Anderson,Kevin Hawkes |
In this biography, the man who would later compose some of the world's most beautiful music is shown to have once been a stubborn little boy with a mind of his own. |
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William B. Gill
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Kurt Ganzl,Kurt Gänzl |
"Canadian by birth, Australian by upbringing, William B. Gill trod the boards in the Australian goldfields and the hill-stations of India before going on to try his luck in America. After unpromising… |
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Changeling
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Mike Oldfield |
Born without social instincts many people take for granted, brought up in a troubled environment and possessed with an extraordinary musical talent, Mike Oldfield was thrust into the spotlight at the… |
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BRITTEN'S CHILDREN
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JOHN BRIDCUT |
xvii, 334 p., [8] p. of plates : 23 cm |
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Life is what you make it
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Peter Buffett |
From composer, musician, and philanthropist Peter Buffett comes a warm, wise, and inspirational book that asks, Which will you choose: the path of least resistance or the path of potentially greatest… |
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Lord Berners
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Peter Dickinson |
"Lord Berners (1883-1950) was one of the most idiosyncratic and fascinating personalities in England during the 1920s and 30s. The interviews in this book come from some of the leading figures of tha… |
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Widor
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John Richard Near |
Widor: A Life beyond the Toccata brings to light the life and work of one of France's most distinguished musicians in the most complete biography in any language of Charles-Marie Widor. He is conside… |
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Mozart
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Stanley Sadie |
An exploration of Mozart's life and music relates his achievements to the social, economic, and cultural environments in which he worked, offering insight into his compositional process and his relat… |
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"But He Doesn't Know the Territory."
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Meredith Willson |
Willson reflects on the genesis and making of his famous musical "The Music Man" through the show's opening night on Broadway. |
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Bach
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John Eliot Gardiner |
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems s… |
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Sondheim on music
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Stephen Sondheim |
Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as the most important composer and lyricist of musical theater in the second half of the twentieth century. Celebrating his eightieth birthday, this new, significa… |
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The sound of their music
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Frederick W. Nolan |
"Musical theater lovers will rejoice at the discovery of this completely rewritten, significantly expanded, illustrated edition of The Sound of Their Music, Frederick Nolan's authoritative biography … |
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Anyone who had a heart
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Burt Bacharach |
Burt Bacharach is one of the most celebrated and legendary song-writers of the twentieth century. Throughout his sixty year career he has worked with artists from Dionne Warwick to Dr Dre, Marlene Di… |
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Richard Strauss
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David Hurwitz |
xi, 186 pages ; 23 cm. + |
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Four last songs
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Linda Hutcheon |
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Olivier Messiaen (1908-92), and Benjamin Britten (1913-76) all wrote operas late in life, pieces that reveal unique responses to the challenge… |
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My depression
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Elizabeth Swados |
This intimate journey through long-term depression is by turns tender, funny, poignant, and uplifting. Swados' charming words and frenzied drawings bring home the experience of severe depression, fro… |
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Unmasked
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Andrew Lloyd Webber |
*"You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you’ve had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business c… |
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Peggy Glanvill-Hicks
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James Murdoch |
"Australian-born composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, born in 1912, was trained in England and France, lived and worked in America, spent her mature years in Greece, and died in Sydney in 1990. Known as P… |
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Portrait of Percy Grainger
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Malcolm Gillies |
"A book of recollections of Percy Grainger (1882-1961), the Australian-born pianist, folklorist, and composer. Contributors include Edvard Grieg, Benjamin Britten, various members of Grainger's famil… |
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A Rebecca Clarke Reader
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Liane Curtis |
Paperback edition. |
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