Publication date: 2007-09-15
Dewey code: 809
Price: $17.00
Review The Gargoyle Ears / Not Avail:The Gargoyle’s Left Ear: Writing in Ottawa presents a unique blend of vignettes, reminiscence, and poetry from well known Ottawa writer Susan McMaster. How has this town transformed a shy girl into an outgoing performer and prize-winning poet whose dozenplus books and recordings have been featured across Canada and beyond? “To admit the draw of starlight. ” writes a passionate young woman as she wends her way along the Canal. “Red leaves drop brown / from weeks of rain / on a river walled / into a domestic bed. ” as she mourns lost love. “Rush wildly, discard this sober step. [+]” as she draws all eyes at the National Arts Centre. “Against the war. ” as she reads to thousands on Parliament Hill. People and places and groups important to this literary town weave in and out of the stories, like Ouroboros (which published her first collection), the Ottawa Poetry Group, Ottawa Independent Writers, First Draft, SugarBeat, and Geode Music & Poetry, and the stages where she presents her work, like the National Library, National Gallery, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Rasputin’s, Tree, Orion, the Ottawa International Writers’ Festival, Ottawa Folk Festival, CBC, CKCU, CHUO, and CHEZ. We follow McMaster through such projects as Bookware: Ottawa Valley Poets, Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action, “Random Acts of Poetry,” and “Poetry in the Park”; and sit down beside her in her “blue room” as she picks up her pen. What makes a writer? This genial and engaging narrative offers a rare chance to look inside a poet’s mind as she writes, “mouth full / of roar. ”.
Publication date: 2007-12-30
Dewey code: 943.086092
Price: $22.95
Review Albert Speer: Conversations With Hitler's Architect / Polity Press:Albert Speer remains the most mysterious character of the leadership of the Nazi regime. He was the chief architect of the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler’s confidant. Speer built the “Reichskanzlei” (official offices), discovered the “Lightdome” and was finally, in 1942, named as the minister for arms. But he characterised himself as apolitical, called Hitler’s hatred of Jews an anomaly, and the conspirators of the 20th July placed Speer’s name on their cabinet list. Here at last are the memoirs of the mysterious Albert Speer, the “good Nazi” Joachim Fest’s records of conversations with Speer provide a fascinating insight into the psyche of Hitler’s architect This book is a vital contribution towards the understanding of the psychology of the national socialist leadership Fest has created a volume that provides a unique portrait of a member of the Nazi party until now clouded in mystery.
Publication date: 1986-02-28
Dewey code: 782.10924
Price: $19.95
Review Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) / Cambridge University Press:This book describes the pre-eminent achievement from the first years of collaboration between two great artists of the twentieth century, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss. It explains how the poet drew upon a wealth of classical and literary sources to fashion his vivid characters, and how the composer further enhanced their lifelike charm in his potent and often magical score. An explanation of the psychological undertones of the libretto is supplemented by an appendix on Hofmannsthal's use of language. Critical comments and attacks on Der Rosenkavalier from its premiere to recent times are described and assessed, and the opera's stage history is recounted. The long central chapter of the book, adapted by Norman Del Mar from his celebrated three-volume study of the composer, combines musical analysis with a detailed synopsis. An appendix discusses versions of the opera as film and play. The book includes a bibliography and a detailed discography.
Publication date: 2004-02-02
Dewey code: 781
List Price: $24.95
Price: $248.44
Review Profiles In Rock / PublishAmerica:This is a book about dreams, determination and passion. Everybody has a dream when growing up. When I was a child, many young boys wanted to be firemen or policemen, and girls teachers or nurses. Profiles in Rock is the story of several groups and individuals who dreamed of musical success at a very young age, and against the odds went on to achieve it. Bruce Springsteen fought his father's disapproval and a reputation as the "new Bob Dylan" as well as an overly enthusiastic manager who took him to court to fight over the rights of Bruce's music. Still, Springsteen went on to become one of the greatest rock icons of his time. Fleetwood Mac overcame several personnel changes, bad contracts, and romantic struggles within its own ranks to create one of the bestselling albums of all time. It is hoped that whatever your own hopes and dreams, whatever your own status in life, you can learn by their example of determination and passion for doing what they love the most. If these individuals can achieve their dreams, then so can we all.
Publication date: 2006-01
Review The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships / New York Review of Books:Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other. Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationships–both personal and intellectual–with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They Kept is a collection of twenty-seven accounts of these varied friendships–most of them undeniably fraught with “idiosyncratic complexities. ” One of the sweetest and funniest is Prudence Crowther’s memoir of her romance, at age thirty, with the seventy-four-year old S. J. Perelman (“As a friend of mine put it, ‘Yeah, too bad you couldn’t have met when you were twenty six and he was seventy–or when he was thirty, and your parents hadn’t met yet. ’”). Darryl Pinckney recalls his unsettling stint as Djuna Barnes’s handyman. Susan Sontag’s piece on Paul Goodman is more about how they never hit it off; Seamus Heaney’s remembrance of Tom Flanagan has all the melancholy affection of a bereft and beloved son. Larry McMurtry and Ken Kesey were grad students together–for years afterward, McMurtry recalls, the Merry Pranksters would show up unannounced, and throw his family and neighbors into hilarious chaos. [+]Derek Walcott recalls his parting of the ways with Robert Lowell, and of their bittersweet reconciliation. And Robert Oppenheimer writes that he wants to dispel the clouds of myth surrounding Albert Einstein: “As always, the myth has its charms; but the truth is far more beautiful. ” From Anna Akhmatova’s dreamlike description of wandering through Paris with the impoverished Modigliani to Joseph Brodsky’s account of his first meeting with Isaiah Berlin (from which he returned to report, around the kitchen table, to Stephen Spender and W. H. Auden), these pieces are tantalizing glimpses into the lives of those who have made The New York Review of Books into what Esquire magazine calls "the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language. ".
Creator: David W. Patterson
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-12-21
Dewey code: 780.92
Price: $115.00
Review John Cage: Music, Philosophy, and Intention, 1933-1950 (Studies in Contemporary Music Andculture) / Routledge:John Cage seeks to explore the early part of the composer's life and career, concentrating on the "pre-chance" period between 1933 and 1950 that is crucial to understanding his later work. The essays consider Cage's influences, his evolving aesthetic, and his movement toward ideology that would later shape his work.
Creator: Mary Anne O'Neil
Publication date: 2005-11-18
Dewey code: 842.910903
List Price: $254.00
Price: $253.98
Review Twenthieth-Century French Dramatists (Dictionary of Literary Biography) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 1923
Review My long life in music, / Frederick A. Stokes Company:
Publication date: 1998-01
Dewey code: 812.54
Price: $36.50
Review Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company: Critical Analyses of 29 Plays / McFarland & Company:Critically, Ludlam's works were often overlooked or misunderstood, and since his death The Mystery of Irma Vep is the one of his 29 plays that is consistently performed in regional theatres. The plays are very visually oriented; much is lost in simply reading them. This work provides an overview of Ludlam's life and the roots of the ridiculous. It explores the theatrical underpinnings of his work and then the whole Ludlam canon.
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $250.00
Price: $250.00
Review Hubert Parry: His Life and Works / Library Reprints:
Creator: Donald Pizer
Publication date: 2003-03
Dewey code: 813.52
List Price: $254.00
Price: $246.70
Review John DOS Passos's U.S.A.: A Documentary Volume (Dictionary of Literary Biography) / Gacl:
Creator: David A. Cook
Publication date: 2001-02
Dewey code: 384.80979494
Price: $52.00
Review Headline Hollywood: A Century of Film Scandal (Communications, Media, and Culture Series) / Rutgers University Press:Fatty Arbuckle's arrest for the rape and murder of a starlet. Matinee idol Wallace Reid's death from drug addiction. Ingrid Bergman's love child. Rumour, gossip, innuendo. Hollywood has a long association with scandal - with covering it up, with managing its effects, and, in some cases, with creating and directing it. In putting together "Headline Hollywood", Adrienne L. MacLean and David A. Cook approach the relationship between Hollywood and scandal from an alternative perspective. The contributors consider some of the famous transgressions that shocked Hollywood and its audiences during the last century, and explore the changing meaning of scandal over time by zeroing in on issues of power: Who decides what crimes and misdemeanours should be circulated for public consumption and titillation? What makes a Hollywood scandal scandalous? What are the uses of scandal? The essays are arranged chronologically to show how Hollywood scandals have evolved relative to changing moral and social orders. This collection should prove of value to those in the field of film studies as well as to anyone interested in the character and future direction of American culture.
Publication date: 1995-06
Dewey code: 780.92
Price: $84.95
Review The Hiawatha Man: The Life and Music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor / Scolar Pr:Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was, in the first decade of the 20th century, a figure of considerable influence in British music, regareded by Elgar, Vaughan Williams and many others as by far the most able musician of his generation. Yet within a few years of his early death in 1912 he passed into obsurity. This biography critically surveys the music of Coleridge-Taylor and considers the reasons for its neglect today. It examines the influences of the man and composer, and in turn his impact above all on black communities in the USA.
Creator: William A. Pencak
Publication date: 2001-12-11
Dewey code: 790.2092
Price: $45.00
Review Paul Robeson: Essays on His Life & Legacy / McFarland & Company:Paul Robeson was born April 9, 1898, in Princeton, New Jersey, the son of an escaped slave. He rose to unparalleled heights as an athlete, actor, singer, and activist, and was arguably the most prominent African American from the 1920s through the 1950s. This work is a compilation of 18 essays written by scholars and activists that were presented at a one-day conference held at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus on February 28, 1998, to honor Robeson's life and legacy. The essays discuss his significance as a singer, his political activism, his efforts to achieve solidarity between African Americans and Jews, the important role played by his wife, Eslanda Goode Robeson, in his struggles, his founding of the Freedom newspaper during the Korean War, his contemporary relevance, and the way conservative Americans turned against him, refused to discuss him in the press, and tried to silence his voice.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1992-08-28
Dewey code: 780
Price: $29.95
Review Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (Cambridge Music Handbooks) / Cambridge University Press:This is a guide to both the music and the poetry of Schubert's much-loved song cycle, set to poems by the Prussian poet Wilhelm MÜller. Composed in 1823, this work is one of the greatest masterpieces of the song repertoire. The genesis of both the poetry and the music, composed soon after Schubert discovered that he had contracted syphilis, is discussed in the first two chapters. A chapter on the poetry considers MÜller's uneasy relationship to the tenets of Romanticism; the influence of Goethe, folk poems, and medieval poetry on Die schöne MÜllerin; and a reading of each of the poems, which are reproduced in German and in English translation. The final chapter provides commentary on each of the twenty songs in the cycle.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-12-01
Dewey code: 848.91409
Price: $115.00
Review Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, Visual Arts, and Non-Print Media (Border Crossings, Vol 2) / Routledge:The first comprehensive presentation of Samuel Beckett's use of the musical and visual arts, this collection addresses important questions that extend beyond the literary domain, including the function of art and music in Beckett's narrative and theatrical writings; Beckett's direct and indirect "collaborations" with composers and painters; and his work for television, radio, and film.
Creator: David Malcolm
Publication date: 2005-10-07
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $254.00
Price: $253.98
Review Dictionary of Literary Biography / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 1991-03
Dewey code: 759.2
Price: $65.00
Review John Ruskin and Switzerland / Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr:
Creator: Maria Rubins
Publication date: 2005-08-19
Dewey code: 891.709004
List Price: $254.00
Price: $254.00
Review Twentieth-Century Russian Emigre Writers (Dictionary of Literary Biography) / Gacl:
Creator: Gert
Edition: Bilingual
Publication date: 2001-11
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $39.99
Price: $150.00
Review Rammstein / Gestalten Verlag:Rammstein is definitely one of the most refereshing and challenging rock acts of the last years. Since their appearance in David Lynch's "Lost Highway", the band received a wide attention around the globe and Rammstein videos couldn't possibly be left out in any MTV rock show. Their spectacular videos and firespitting live performances resulted in a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Act and to 2 million albums sold in the US to date. It is hard to think of any other foreign speaking rock band whose lyrics are sung along by 20. 000 or more American fans in their live shows. A breathtaking visual trip into their world.
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The Gargoyle Ears, Albert Speer: Conversations With Hitler's Architect, Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Cambridge Opera Handbooks), Profiles In Rock , The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships, John Cage: Music, Philosophy, and Intention, 1933-1950 (Studies in Contemporary Music Andculture), Twenthieth-Century French Dramatists (Dictionary of Literary Biography), My long life in music,, Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company: Critical Analyses of 29 Plays, Hubert Parry: His Life and Works, John DOS Passos's U.S.A.: A Documentary Volume (Dictionary of Literary Biography), Headline Hollywood: A Century of Film Scandal (Communications, Media, and Culture Series), The Hiawatha Man: The Life and Music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Paul Robeson: Essays on His Life & Legacy, Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (Cambridge Music Handbooks), Samuel Beckett and the Arts: Music, Visual Arts, and Non-Print Media (Border Crossings, Vol 2), Dictionary of Literary Biography, John Ruskin and Switzerland, Twentieth-Century Russian Emigre Writers (Dictionary of Literary Biography), RammsteinTop headlines: Technology Review: 2007 Ford Expedition: Ford's full-size SUV is big on conveniences and standard features. ›07:00 19 Oct, Fri Destinations vie to be named a natural Wonder: The Grand Canyon, Mt. 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