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by Loretta Lynn
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Loretta Lynn’s classic memoir tells the story of her early life in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and her amazing rise to the top of the music industry.
Born into deep poverty, married at thirteen, mother of six, and a grandmother by the time she was twenty-nine, Loretta Lynn went on to become...
Bach
Music in the Castle of Heaven
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
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 so ordinary, so opaque—and occasionally so intemperate?
John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing...
Sinatra
The Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the...
by Rodney Crowell
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.
The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a...
Practicing
A Musician's Return to Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
In a remarkable memoir written with insight and humor, Glenn Kurtz takes us from his first lessons at the age of eight to his acceptance at the elite New England Conservatory of Music. After graduation, he attempts a solo career in Vienna but soon realizes that he has neither the ego nor the talent...
Johannes Brahms
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
An illuminating new biography of one of the most beloved of all composers, published on the hundredth anniversary of his death, brilliantly written by a finalist for the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award. Johannes Brahms has consistently eluded his biographers. Throughout his life, he attempted...
by Margo Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2006
In On Michael Jackson—an at once passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis—Pulitzer Prize–winning critic for The New York Times Margo Jefferson brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time.
Who is Michael Jackson and what does...
Schubert's Winter Journey
Anatomy of an Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
An exploration of the world’s most famous and challenging song cycle, Schubert's Winter Journey (Winterreise), by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themes—literary, historical, psychological—that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece.
Completed...
by Sarfraz Manzoor
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
The inspiration for the smash Sundance hit, soon to be a major motion picture, "Blinded by the Light": The acclaimed memoir about the power of Bruce Springsteen's music on a young Pakistani boy growing up in Britain in the 1970s.
Sarfraz Manzoor was two years old when, in 1974, he emigrated...
Puccini Without Excuses
A Refreshing Reassessment of the World's Most Popular Composer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Puccini is the most beloved composer of opera in the world: one quarter of all opera performances in the U.S. are of his operas, his music pervades movie soundtracks, and his plots have infiltrated our popular culture. But, although Puccini’s art still captivates audiences and the popularity of...
With Billie
A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it.
Billie Holiday’s life is inseparable from an account of her troubles,...
Cinderella and Company
Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
A wickedly funny look at opera today--the feuds and deals, maestros and managers, divine voices and outsized egos--and a portrait of the opera world's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career.
In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuela Hoelterhoff takes...
by Benita Eisler
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Frédéric Chopin’s reputation as one of the Great Romantics endures, but as Benita Eisler reveals in her elegant and elegiac biography, the man was more complicated than his iconic image.
A classicist, conservative, and dandy who relished his conquest of Parisian society, the Polish émigré...
Verdi With a Vengeance
An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Everything you could possibly know about Verdi and his operas, from the brilliant and humorous author of Wagner Without Fear.
If you want to know why La traviata was actually a flop at its premiere in 1853, it's in here. If you want to know why claiming to have heard Bjorling's Chicago performance...