Publication date: 1989-11-09
Review "Level 42" / Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd:
Creator: Charles Ryskamp
Publication date: 1979-11-29
Dewey code: 821.6
List Price: $360.00
Price: $146.91
Review The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper: Volume 1: Adelphi and Letters 1750-1781 / Oxford University Press, USA:When completed, this edition will contain about 1300 letters, 1000 of which will be printed from the original MSS. About two-thirds of the letters will contian material that has hitherto been unpublished.
Creator: Joan Jeffri
Publication date: 1994-03-30
Dewey code: 792.028092273
List Price: $126.95
Price: $145.15
Review The Actor Speaks: Actors Discuss Their Experiences and Careers (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) / Greenwood Press:The book is based on a series of unique oral histories and interviews with actors who love the stage first and foremost. Editor Joan Jeffri focuses on the experience of actors in their training and career development, and on their relationships to society, culture, and institutions. Although names like Alan Alda are recognizable from other media, these actors all grew up being nourished by the stage. Their stories show that theatre is everywhere in this country-not only on Broadway, but also in churches, in schools, in regions, and in towns. These interviews and a thorough introduction provide a history of the American theatre for almost a century-the Yiddish theatre, the WPA, the start of regional theatre, off- and off-off-Broadway, and the Great White Way-through the voices of those who lived it.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1985-02-28
List Price: $4.95
Price: $280.59
Review Dire Straits / Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation:
Authors
- Edward Berger
- Morroe Berger
- James Patrick
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 781.65092
List Price: $159.50
Price: $147.36
Review Benny Carter : A Life in American Music (Studies in Jazz, 2 Volume Set) / The Scarecrow Press, Inc.:This extraordinary two-volume work presents the career of Benny Carter, one of the most important and versatile figures in jazz, and treats a number of social and musicological aspects of jazz and popular music with an interdisciplinary approach unique in jazz literature. The authors draw upon hundreds of interviews with Carter and many other important figures in the music industry. Carter's musical development is traced through transcriptions and analyses of representative solos and arrangements from the 1920s to the 70s. The accompanying discography is one of the most comprehensive ever devoted to the work of a single musician. Generously illustrated.
Publication date: 2005-08-30
Dewey code: 709
Price: $28.00
Review Tranquil Power: The Art and Life of Perle Fine / Midmarch Arts Press:
Publication date: 2008-01-28
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $200.00
Price: $146.00
Review The Pear is Ripe LSE: A Memoir / Liberties Press:Born in New York but reared in County Tyrone, John Montague rose to prominence in the 1960's and 1970's with his poetry collections including Poisoned Lands and the long poem The Rough Field. The book is full of warm anecdotes and wry observations on the numerous literary, artistic, and musical characters he encountered, befriended and occasionally provoked. He recounts his personal and professional relationships with such luminaries as Patrick Kavanagh, Allen Ginsberg and, as co-founder of Claddagh Records, with composer Seá O Riada. There is an interesting account of meeting Charles Haughey and a suggestion that a seed was sown that might have led ultimately to the introduction of the artist tax exemption.
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2000-07-28
Dewey code: 781
List Price: $270.00
Price: $220.92
Review International Who's Who in Music: Volume Two, Popular Music / Routledge:Comprehensive biographical information covering the leading names on all aspects of popular music
Creator: Jeremy Barham
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $150.00
Price: $146.00
Review Perspectives on Gustav Mahler / Ashgate Publishing:Gustav Mahler's music continues to enjoy global prominence, both in live or recorded performance and within broader ranges of critical perception and cultural sensibility. In recognition of such a profile, this volume brings together a unique collection of essays exploring the diverse methods and topics characteristic of recent advances in Mahler scholarship. The book's international group of contributors is actively involved not only in bringing fresh approaches to Mahler research in areas such as analysis, sketch studies and reception history, but also in examining hitherto neglected issues of cultural and biographical interpretation, performance practice and compositional aesthetic, thereby illustrating the developing vitality and scope of this field. Engaging with its subject from reconstructive, documentary, theoretical, analytical, discursive and interpretative viewpoints, this volume provides a wide spectrum of contexts in which continuing debate about Mahler's life and works can flourish. Its varied themes and strategies nevertheless collectively recognize and negotiate the shifting space both between the composer's life and his artistic creativity, and between the musical results of that creativity and the critical-analytical process. The essays in this book accordingly fill certain gaps in the scholarly understanding of the composer, and re-orientate Mahler studies towards some of the central concerns of contemporary musicological thinking.
Creator: Kathleen Tillotson
Edition: Pilgrim Ed
Publication date: 1998-06-04
Dewey code: 823.8
List Price: $221.58
Price: $221.58
Review The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition Volume 9: 1859-1861 (Letters of Charles Dickens) / British Academy:This ninth volume presents about 1,100 letters, many unpublished, from the years 1859 to 1861. It records the writing of two major novels, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations; the planning and writing of a substantial amount of the three Christmas numbers of this period, `A Haunted House', `A Message from the Sea', and `Tom Tiddler's Ground'; and the establishment of All the Year Round as a new journal to succeed Household Words. It also shows Dickens's delight with his new Kentish home, Gad's Hill.
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $17.95
Price: $150.54
Review The Best of The Beatles / Music Sales Corporation:The first comprehensive biography of one of the defining figures of modern Irish music. MacGowan's musical adventures and hell-raising life are explored through interviews with friends and associates.
Review Great Composers / Tiger Books:
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 2000-01-11
Dewey code: 759.13
List Price: $90.00
Price: $512.65
Review The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonne / Yale University Press:Martin Johnson Heade was one of the most significant American painters of the nineteenth century, creator of portraits, history and genre pictures, still lifes, ornithological studies, landscapes, and marines, and his own unique orchid and hummingbird compositions. This book brings a new perspective to Heade and his works, presenting him as one of the most original and productive painters of his time. Theodore Stebbins builds on his acclaimed 1975 study of Heade, drawing on several newly discovered collections of Heade's letters and the painter's own Brazilian journal. Stebbins tells of Heade's training and early career as an itinerant portraitist and discusses his move to New York, where, under the influence of Frederic E. Church, he began painting landscapes and seascapes. He examines Heade's relationships with patrons and dealers, writers and scientists, and he sheds new light on Heade's trips to Brazil, to the Central American tropics, and to London. And he describes Heade's move to Florida in 1883, which marked not his retirement but a final period of creativity that lasted until his death in 1904. The book includes not only an examination of Heade's life and works but also reproductions of all his 620 known paintings, including nearly 250 that have been discovered since 1975.
Authors
- Brian Trowell
- Jeremy Dibble
- Andrew Neill
Review Oh My Horses!: Elgar, the Music of England and the Great War / Elgar Editions:
Publication date: 1997-11
Dewey code: 823.912
List Price: $55.00
Price: $147.06
Review Radical Mansfield: Double Discourse in Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories / St. Martin's Press:
Authors
- Irving Kolodin
- Benny Goodman
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $89.00
Price: $152.19
Review The Kingdom of Swing / Reprint Services Corp:
Publication date: 1998-10
Dewey code: 786.2092
Price: $14.95
Review Starting from Porcupine / Oberon Pr:
Publication date: 1985-05-23
Review A Jobbing Actor / Sphere Books:
Publication date: 1998-03
Dewey code: 787.4092
Price: $84.95
Review Pierre Fournier: Cellist in a Landscape With Figures / Ashgate Publishing:
Publication date: 1999-01-14
Dewey code: 844.3
List Price: $200.00
Price: $146.69
Review Montaigne's Career / Oxford University Press, USA:Following Montaigne through his various roles as manager, magistrate, diplomat, and mayor, this book examines the sources of income available to sixteenth-century writers, the various demands on their time, and their involvement in the financial and editorial aspects of publishing itself, to illustrate the interdependent relationship between writing and politics in the sixteenth century.
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"Level 42", The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper: Volume 1: Adelphi and Letters 1750-1781, The Actor Speaks: Actors Discuss Their Experiences and Careers (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies), Dire Straits, Benny Carter : A Life in American Music (Studies in Jazz, 2 Volume Set), Tranquil Power: The Art and Life of Perle Fine, The Pear is Ripe LSE: A Memoir, International Who's Who in Music: Volume Two, Popular Music, Perspectives on Gustav Mahler, The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition Volume 9: 1859-1861 (Letters of Charles Dickens), The Best of The Beatles, Great Composers, The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonne, Oh My Horses!: Elgar, the Music of England and the Great War, Radical Mansfield: Double Discourse in Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories, The Kingdom of Swing, Starting from Porcupine, A Jobbing Actor, Pierre Fournier: Cellist in a Landscape With Figures, Montaigne's CareerTop headlines: Measles deaths drop by 74 percent: Measles deaths worldwide declined dramatically to about 200,000 a year, continuing a successful trend, global health authorities reported Thursday. ›16:37 Burmese Battle Spiritual and Economic Ills: Businesses are struggling, prices are rising and residents are facing a spiritual crisis. 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