Although Gustav Mahler was a famous conductor in Vienna and New York, the music that he wrote was condemned during his lifetime and for many years after his death in 1911. “Pages of dreary emptiness,” sniffed a leading American...
Composers
- Author:Lebrecht, NormanSummary:
- Author:Marchwell, D. W.Summary:
Sequel to Falling It's been two years since Hank Ballam and Scott Alan fell in love, moved in together and started building their life. Hank has kept his promise to his boss—and Scott’s brother—Brian, proving he can be both his...
- Author:Wynne-Jones, TimSummary:
The Maestro. Burl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life. His father is a manipulative lout with a dangerous temper; his mother, worn down by years of abuse, now resorts to her little helpers to get her through the days. Then he...
- Author:Morrow, BradfordSummary:
In the early days of the new millennium, pages of a worn and weathered original sonata manuscript-the gift of a Czech immigrant living out her final days in Queens-come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert...
- Author:Wynne-Jones, TimSummary:
Burl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life. His father is a manipulative lout with a dangerous temper; his mother, worn down by years of abuse, now resorts to her little helpers to get her through the days. Then he meets...
- Author:Leon, DonnaSummary:
Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career elsewhere, mostly abroad. She lands in Birmingham, England, as a research fellow and assistant professor. Birmingham,...
- Author:Thériault, LouiseSummary:
Près de trente-cinq ans après la dissolution du mythique groupe Harmonium, Serge Fiori se livre à Louise Thériault, qui dresse de lui un portrait tout en nuances, plein d’empathie mais jamais complaisant. Grâce à des dizaines d’heures d...
- Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:
In Platinum Blues, Oliver Gulliver is a small-town lawyer in northern California, and he's slowly going broke. He's a plodder and a dreamer, has never tested himself in a big trial, and is immensely protective of his two teenage girls....
- Author:Ouellette, Antoine, Mottron, LaurentSummary:
En novembre 2007, l’écrivain et compositeur Antoine Ouellette est dia-gnostiqué Asperger, un syndrome appartenant au spectre autistique. L’auteur témoigne ici de son expérience et offre une visite guidée du monde autiste. Il souhaite...
- Author:Mozart, Wolfgang AmadeusSummary:
Contents: The significance of Mozart -- Chips from the workshop -- Concerning the opera -- Musical pedagogics -- Touching musical performances -- expressions critical -- Opinions concerning others -- Wolfgang, the German --...
- Author:Johnson, PaulSummary:
Johnson' s focus is on the music--Mozart' s wondrous output of composition and his uncanny gift for instrumentation. Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. Mozart...
- Author:Julien, Jacques, Ringuet, ChantalSummary:
La carrière de Leonard Cohen s’est déployée par vagues successives. Admiré et célébré d’abord comme poète, il a donné l’essentiel de son message dans ses trois premiers albums. Si les suivants, plus singuliers, ont surtout été appréciés...
- Author:Marchwell, D. W.Summary:
Suite de Tombé pour lui Deux ans se sont écoulés depuis que Hank Ballam et Scott Alan sont tombés amoureux, ont emménagé ensemble et commencé leur vie commune. Hank n’a pas rompu sa promesse à Brian, son patron et le frère de Scott,...
- Author:Schneider, JasonSummary:
Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, while simultaneously connecting with a mass audience. While nearly every songwriter who successfully crossed this divide...
- Author:Marom, MalkaSummary:
When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she’d first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More...
- Author:St. Anthony, MichaelSummary:
When Aiden Campbell, a talented pastry chef with a shady past, meets Thomas Balducci, a young, up-and-coming composer, Aiden is reminded of the hope and ambition he used to have, back when he bore another name. Thomas is charming,...
- Author:Kelly, PaulSummary:
Each chapter, and there's a hundred of them, is a tightly written story in itself somehow relating to one of a hundred Paul Kelly songs:- Anastasia Changes Her Mind "Anastasia left a kiss on the mirror And a couple of...
- Author:Marchwell, D. W.Summary:
La secuela de Enamorarse Han pasado ya dos años desde que Hank Ballam y Scott Alan se enamoraron, se fueron a vivir juntos y comenzaron a construir una vida en común. Hank ha mantenido la promesa que le hiciera a su jefe Brian (...
- Author:Sims, RuthSummary:
At eighteen, Dylan Rutledge has one obsession: music. He believes his destiny is to be the greatest composer of the rapidly approaching twentieth century. Only Laurence Northcliff, a young history master at The Venerable Bede School for...
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Presents the correspondence of various composers from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and many others write about their music, their hopes and fears, their love, their...