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Ernst von Dohnányi
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James A. Grymes,Ilona Von Dohnanyi |
"Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877-1960) was one of the most highly respected musicians of his time. The young Dohnanyi enjoyed an international prestige that brought him into contact with such nineteenth-cen… |
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Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts
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Harriet Vyner |
Jools Holland has had a fascinating life. From playing on bomb sites as a boy in the East End, to skiving off school and then selling millions of records with Squeeze, the first twenty years of his l… |
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John Arpin Keyboard Virtuoso
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Robert Popple |
"Born and raised in Port McNicoll, John Arpin discovered his musical talents early: at the age of four he could pick out tunes on the piano that he had heard on the radio; by ten, he had been identif… |
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Glenn Gould
Quest Library Dundurn Press
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Vladimir Konieczny |
"Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was a prodigy who loathed the word, a brilliant concert pianist who disliked performing, and a public figure who craved solitude. With his recording of the Goldberg Variation… |
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Bowie's piano man
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Clifford Slapper |
"Pianist Mike Garson was David Bowie's most frequent musician, on record and onstage throughout Bowie's life. They played over a thousand shows together between 1972 and 2004, and Garson is featured … |
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From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall
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Marian Filar,Charles Patterson |
"Before the Nazis sent members of the Filar family to Treblinka, these were the last words Marian Filar's mother said to him. "I bless you. You'll survive this horror. You'll become a great pianist, … |
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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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Low down
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A. J. Albany |
A.J. Albany's recollection of life with her father, the jazz pianist Joe Albany, is the story of one girl's unsentimental education. Joe played with the likes of Charles Mingus, Lester Young, and Cha… |
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A Severed Wasp (Katherine Forrester Vigneras #2)
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Madeleine L'Engle |
Katherine Forrester Vigneras, in a continuation of her story from *The Small Rain*, returns to New York City from Europe to retire. Now in her seventies, she encounters an old friend from her Greenwi… |
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Vladimir de Pachmann
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Mark Mitchell |
"Piano virtuoso Vladimir de Pachmann (1848-1933) is remembered today more often than not for the comic and sometimes bizarre on-stage behavior that earned him the epithet "Chopinzee." Yet during his … |
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