Publication date: 2007-10-05
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $140.00
Price: $140.00
Review Authors & Artists for Young Adults (Authors and Artists for Young Adults) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $375.00
Price: $375.00
Review Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750 / Library Reprints:Monumental 3-volume study of Bach, foundation of all later scholarship. Detailed information on almost everything known about Bach's life and family; also perceptive analyses of all important compositions — over 500 pieces — with more than 450 musical excerpts. Scholarly, yet can be read with profit by any serious music lover.
Publication date: 2003-07-09
Dewey code: 780
Price: $19.95
Review No Direction Home: The Life And Music Of Bob Dylan / Da Capo Press:Robert Shelton wrote the rave review of Bob Dylan in the New York Times that is generally credited with being the piece that "discovered" him in 1961. Twenty-five years later, Shelton, who had followed Dylan's career faithfully, published No Direction Home. Here is the "empathetic and rather magnificent" (Washington Post Book World) story of Dylan, musician and phenomenon. Robert Shelton, a critic for the New York Times in 1961, caught an early Bob Dylan gig at Folk City in Greenwich Village and wrote an effusive review for the newspaper. The coverage in the Times was a huge boost to the career of the then-struggling folksinger, and Shelton and Dylan became friends, seeing each other frequently around the Village folk scene. When Shelton, in the 1980s, finally got around to finishing his full-length biography of Dylan, he could draw upon a wealth of insider stories from the early days. The book is naturally strongest when describing Dylan's early career, from his coffeehouse gigs as a Woody Guthrie disciple to the insanely high artistic peaks of the mid-'60s. A particularly engaging passage concerns a freeform interview Shelton conducted with Dylan as they flew high above the Midwest in early 1966; Shelton's memories of Dylan are essential reading for fans. Shelton saw much less of the notoriously private Dylan as the years passed, and the book loses momentum as he becomes less of an eyewitness and more of a distant observer, though Dylan's story is credibly told up through the mid-1980s. -Robert McNamara.
Publication date: 1982-03
Dewey code: 780
Price: $5.95
Review The Ramones / Putnam Pub Group (T):
Publication date: 1943-12-30
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $195.00
Price: $195.00
Review Michel-ange (French Edition) / French & European Pubns:
Publication date: 1981-10
Review Delius / Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd:
Creator: Reginald Marsh
Publication date: 2003-06-25
Dewey code: 929.20973
List Price: $15.00
Price: $129.91
Review The Legendary Mizners / Farrar, Straus and Giroux:The real-life adventures of Addison and Wilson Mizner, the subjects of a new Stephen Sondheim musical Gold!Alva Johnston's joint biography of Addison and Wilson Mizner is a delightful portrait of two of the early twentieth century's most clever and infamous rascals. Born in the 1870s in California, the brothers quickly rose to prominence during the various booms of the 1920s. Addison, the elder, was a self-made architect and real-estate dealer who designed many of the fantastic homes of the fantastically rich in Palm Beach. He could "age" a house and its furnishings to any period his client desired-and would pay for. Wilson's adventures were even more daring and varied, and his quick wit was legendary. In addition to getting rich on the Alaskan gold rush, he had careers as a singer, playwright, prizefight promoter, con man, real-estate salesman, and shady hotel owner. Perhaps his most famous quip was one he delivered on being told that President Coolidge had died: "How do they know?".
Creator: George R. Keck
Publication date: 1990-07-26
Dewey code: 016.78092
List Price: $79.95
Price: $140.29
Review Francis Poulenc: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) / Greenwood Press:Francis Poulenc: A Bio-Bibliography is a thorough presentation of the works of this often performed and critically appreciated 20th-century composer. George R. Keck traces events in Poulenc's life and offers a list of works and performances with the primary focus on those facts and influences which contributed to the development of the composer's distinctive musical style. Included in the text is a substantial discography as well as annotated entries by and about the composer which cover every phase of his career and affirm Poulenc's place in 20th-century music. The highly selective annotated bibliography comprises the major portion of the text. Since Keck's documentation of the development of Poulenc's style covers only representative works, he includes a list of all of Poulenc's compositions, arranged both alphabetically and chronologically, in the two appendixes. A complete index of names, places, and titles concludes the book.
Creator: To Be Announced (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-03-03
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $140.00
Price: $140.00
Review Cheever: A Life (Library) / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:In this luminous biography, Blake Bailey shows us the conflicted soul of a writer of timeless fiction. Though Cheevers groundbreaking work would earn him fame, it never wholly offset his anxieties and desperate loneliness.
Creator: Derek E. Ostergard
Publication date: 2001-10-01
Dewey code: 709.2
Price: $75.00
Review William Beckford, 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent / Bard Center:The British collector William Beckford helped to define many of the most significant parameters of nineteenth-century collecting, as he was unbound by conventional intellectual or aesthetic prejudice. He was among the first of the great connoisseurs to collect Asian and Islamic art while breaking with the taste of his contemporaries. He assembled an eclectic and luxurious collection that included ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art, as well as seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early-nineteenth-century objects. His active participation in the design of various objects reveals a discriminating aesthetic sensibility that set him apart from his contemporaries. His influence also extended beyond his day: generations of renowned private collectors in Great Britain, on the Continent, and in the United States have reflected his interest in the art of many cultures and periods. This magnificent book describes Beckford's flamboyant personality and unconventional life. Authorities tell us that at an early age, Beckford was known as "England's wealthiest son", due to a prodigal income generated from Jamaican sugar plantations. As a youth, he travelled widely and made his mark as a novelist, composer of music, and impresario of design. His most ambitious project was his fantastic residence Fonthill Abbey; the construction and furnishing of this Gothic Revival edifice consumed nearly twenty-five years of Beckford's life and vast amounts of his fortune, branding him with a reputation as a recluse and eccentric. In addition to providing details about Beckford's life, the book discusses 175 of the finest works of art that once were part of Beckford's legendary collections and examines his travels and great building projects. [+]This richly illustrated book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture from October 2001 to January 2002 and at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, from February to April 2002.
Creator: Dirk Bogarde
Publication date: 1995-05-25
Review Snakes and Ladders (Penguin audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:Dirk Bogarde continues his autobiography, begun in "A Postillion Struck by Lightning". The book begins with the trials of an army training camp at Catterick and covers his career to the point where he starred in the film "Death in Venice".
Publication date: 2006-06-09
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $140.00
Price: $140.00
Review Authors & Artists for Young Adults (Authors and Artists for Young Adults) / Gale Cengage:
Creator: Michael LaBlanc
Publication date: 2006-12-08
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $140.00
Price: $140.00
Review Authors & Artists for Young Adults (Authors and Artists for Young Adults) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 2006-04-07
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $140.00
Price: $140.00
Review Authors & Artists for Young Adults (Authors and Artists for Young Adults) / Gale Cengage:
Creator: Amy Fuller
Publication date: 2008-04-11
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $140.00
Price: $140.00
Review Authors & Artists for Young Adults (Authors and Artists for Young Adults) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 782.421660263
Price: $29.95
Review Tori Amos Collection: Tales Of A Librarian / Music Sales Corp:
Publication date: 1974-06
Dewey code: 821.7
Price: $7.25
Review Keats and His Poetry (Poetry and life series) / Ams Pr Inc:One of the volumes from the Poetry and Life series. From the Preface: A glance through the pages of this little book will suffice to disclose the general plan of the series of which it forms a part. Only a few words of explanation, therefore, will be necessary. In this, biography and production will be considered together and in intimate association. In other words, an endeavor will be made to interest the reader in the lives and personalities of the poets dealt with, and at the same time to use biography as an introduction and key to their writings.
Publication date: 1986-04
Review "Big Country" / Omnibus Press:
Creator: Lisa Kumar
Publication date: 2008-07-11
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $140.00
Price: $140.00
Review Authors & Artists for Young Adults (Authors and Artists for Young Adults) / Gale Cengage:
Creator: Howard Erskine-Hill
Publication date: 2000-09-07
Dewey code: 821.5
List Price: $330.00
Price: $169.01
Review Alexander Pope: Selected Letters / Oxford University Press, USA:Pope's letters are fascinating documents, apart from his importance as a poet. Highly revealing of his remarkable character-ambitious, dangerous, trimming, ridiculous, intelligent, generous yet antagonistic-they also comprise a body of writing of extraordinary interest for an understanding of his times: its personalities, its plots, its tragedies and exiles, its loves, its scandals, the movement of its religious, political, and philosophical ideas, its sense of poetry, and its notions of poetic craft and genre. Moreover, Pope published a collection of his own letters: a selective and highly edited collection, in which (having retrieved the originals from some recipients) he revised their texts and on occasion claimed they had been written to other people. This came to light with the nineteenth-century discovery of transcripts of the original letters, made for Pope's correspondent Lord Caryll. Other letters preserved in the British Library's Homer MS are clearly ones the poet would not have chosen to keep, since he used their backs for drafts of his Iliad translation. George Sherburn's scholarly five-volume Collected Correspondence (Oxford, 1956) is the necessary basis for any new edition. The collection presented here is in the first place a balanced and varied selection from Sherburn. Since 1956, however, many new letters have been discovered, and this volume includes most of them. Many are among Pope's best, though they have till now been scattered in learned journals. This selection supplies an introduction, a commentary on each letter identifying allusions and quotations (with translations where necessary), and thematic and biographical indexes.
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