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Lulu.com America Today
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Lulu.com Manimals
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Lulu.com The Psychiatric Case of Marilyn Monroe
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Lulu.com Shakespeare in Paradises Short Tales Vol II
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Lulu.com Music Street Journal 2019 Volume 5 October 2019 Issue 138
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Lulu.com Brookline County
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Lulu.com Nothing to Turn Off The Films and Video of Bob Dylan Revised and Updated
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Lulu.com Cornebos Ssnta Sleigh Jokes
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Lulu.com HARTLEY LIFE VOL.1
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Lulu.com The Black List Part 1
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Lulu.com Music Street Journal Local
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Lulu.com New Voices Holiday Plays 2019
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Lulu.com Kafi
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Lulu.com Broken Pilgrim Songs
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Lulu.com New Voices Holiday Plays 2019
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Blurb, Inc. Grays Sports Almanac
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Blurb, Inc. Collectors Guide To Evel Knievel Stunt Toys
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ReadHowYouWant The Clash 16pt Large Print Edition
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ReadHowYouWant Leonardo DiCaprio The Biography 16pt Large Print Edition
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Putting It Together
Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic musical Sunday in the Park with GeorgePutting It Together chronicles the two-year odyssey of creating the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George. In 1982, James Lapine, at the beginning of his career as a playwright and director, met Stephen Sondheim, nineteen years his senior and already a legendary Broadway composer and lyricist. Shortly thereafter, the two decided to write a musical inspired by Georges Seurat's nineteenth-century painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Through conversations between Lapine and Sondheim, as well as most of the production team, and with a treasure trove of personal photographs, sketches, script notes, and sheet music, the two Broadway icons lift the curtain on their beloved musical. Putting It Together is a deeply personal remembrance of their collaborati
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Indivisible by Four
Book SynopsisThe Guarneri Quartet is fabled for its unique longevity and high-spirited virtuosity. Here is its story from the inside--a story filled with drama, humor, danger, compassion, and, of course, glorious music.A player who studies and performs the exalted string-quartet repertoire has opted for a very special life. Arnold Steinhardt, tracing his own development as a student, orchestra player, and budding young soloist, gives a touching account of how he and his intrepid colleagues were converted to chamber music despite the daunting odds against success. And he reveals, as no one has before, the intensely difficult process by which--on the battlefield of daily three-hour rehearsals--four individualists master and then overcome the confining demands of ensemble playing.
£14.45
Sarah Crichton Books The Secret Life of the American Musical
Book SynopsisA New York Times BestsellerFor almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in a darkened theater, grows into something more serious for high school actors, and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical?In The Secret Life of the American Musical, Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show leads to the next?by design or by accident, by emulation or by rebellion?from Oklahoma! to Hamilton and onward.Structured like a musical, The Secret Life of the American Musical begins with an overture and concludes with a curtain call, with stops in between for ?I Want? songs, ?conditional? love songs, production numbers, star turns, and finales. The ultimate insider, Viertel has spent three decades on Broadway, working on dozens of shows old and new as a conceiver, producer, dramaturg, and general creative force; he has his own unique way of looking at the process and at the people who collaborate to make musicals a reality. He shows us patterns in the architecture of classic shows and charts the inevitable evolution that has taken place in musical theater as America itself has evolved socially and politically. The Secret Life of the American Musical makes you feel as though you?ve been there in the rehearsal room, in the front row of the theater, and in the working offices of theater owners and producers as they pursue their own love affair with that rare and elusive beast?the Broadway hit.
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Sarah Crichton Books Reckless Daughter
Book SynopsisShe was like a storm. Leonard Cohen Reckless Daughter is the story of an artist and an era that have left an indelible mark on American music. Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl with the guitar became a superstar of folk music in the 1960s, a key figure in the Laurel Canyon music scene of the 1970s, and the songwriter who spoke resonantly to, and for, audiences across the country. A Canadian prairie girl, a free-spirited artist, Mitchell never wanted to be a pop star. She was nothing more than a painter derailed by circumstances, she would explain. And yet, she went on to become a talented self-taught musician and a brilliant bandleader, releasing album after album, each distinctly experimental, challenging, and revealing. Her lyrics captivated listeners with their perceptive language and naked emotion, born out of Mitchell's life, loves, complaints, and prophecies. As an artist whose work deftly balances narrative and musical complexity, she has been admired by such legendary lyricists as Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen and beloved by such groundbreaking jazz musicians as Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, and Herbie Hancock. Her hitsfrom Big Yellow Taxi to Both Sides, Now to A Case of Youendure as timeless favorites, and her influence on the generations of singer-songwriters who would follow her, from her devoted fan Prince to Björk, is undeniable.In this intimate biography, drawing on dozens of unprecedented in-person interviews with Mitchell, her childhood friends, and a cast of famous characters, Yaffe reveals the backstory behind the famous songsfrom Mitchell's youth in Canada, her bout with polio at age nine, and her early marriage and the child she gave up for adoption, through the love affairs that inspired masterpieces, and up to the presentand shows us why Mitchell has so enthralled her listeners, her lovers, and her friends.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Dream Factory
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Complete Lyricks 20002021
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Random House USA Inc Jelly Roll
Book SynopsisIn this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as “Stride Piano,” “Gutbucket,” and “Can-Can,” these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized songs and follow a classic blues trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion (“To watch you walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is to see / civilization start”), only to end up lamenting the loss of love (“No use driving / like rain, past / where you at”). As Young conquers the sorrow left on his doorstep, the poems broaden to embrace not just the wisdom that comes with heartbreak but the bittersweet wonder of triumphing over adversity at all. Sexy and tart, playfully blending an African American idiom with traditional lyric diction, Young’s voice is pure American: joyous in its individualism and singing of
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Auditioning
Book SynopsisTheater veteran and acting teacher Joanna Merlin has written the definitive guide to auditioning for stage and screen, bringing to it a valuable dual perspective. She has spent her career on both sides of the auditioning process, both as an award-winning casting director who has worked with Harold Prince, Bernard Bertolucci, and James Ivory, and as an accomplished actor herself. In this highly informative and accessible book, Merlin provides everything the actor needs to achieve self-confidence and artistic honesty–from the most basic practical tips to an in-depth framework for preparing a part. Filled with advice from the most esteemed people in the business, such as James Lapine, Nora Ephron, and Stephen Sondheim, and charged with tremendous wisdom and compassion, this indispensable resource will arm the reader to face an actor's greatest challenge: getting the part.
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Random House Publishing Group The Making Of 2001 A Space Odyssey Modern Library
Book Synopsis'If 2001 has stirred your emotions, your subconscious, your mythological yearnings, then it has succeeded.'--Stanley KubrickStanley Kubrick's extraordinary movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1969. The critics initially disliked it, but the public loved it. And eventually, the film took its rightful place as one of the most innovative, brilliant, and pivotal works of modern cinema. The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey consists of testimony from Kubrick's collaborators and commentary from critics and historians. This is the most complete book on the film to date--from Stanley Kubrick's first meeting with screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke to Kubrick's exhaustive research to the actual shooting and release of the movie.
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Random House USA Inc The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
Book SynopsisWalking his two young children to school every morning, Thad Carhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Paris neighborhood. Intrigued by its simple sign—Desforges Pianos—he enters, only to have his way barred by the shop’s imperious owner. Unable to stifle his curiosity, he finally lands the proper introduction, and a world previously hidden is brought into view. Luc, the atelier’s master, proves an indispensable guide to the history and art of the piano. Intertwined with the story of a musical friendship are reflections on how pianos work, their glorious history, and stories of the people who care for them, from amateur pianists to the craftsmen who make the mechanism sing. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is at once a beguiling portrait of a Paris not found on any map and a tender account of the awakening of a lost childhood passion.Praise for The Piano Shop on the Left Bank:“[Carhart’s] writing is flu
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HarperCollins Publishers Knowing the Score
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Hal Leonard How To Play The Piano Despite Years of Lessons
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Crown I Love Lucy Book
Book SynopsisIn answer to countless requests from I Love Lucy fans around the world, Bart Andrews has revised, updated, and expanded his classic book on TV's most beloved series.B & W photographs throughout.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Inside Music
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Random House USA Inc Skeleton Key
Book SynopsisFor fifty years and more than two thousand shows, the Grateful Dead have been earning the deadication of more than a million fans. Along the way, Deadheads have built an original and authentic American subculture, with vivid jargon and rich love, and its own legends, myths, and spirituality.Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads is the first map of what Jerry Garcia calls the Grateful Dead outback, as seen through the eyes of the faithful, friends, and family, including Bill Walton, Elvis Costello, Tipper Gore, Al Franken, Bob Bralove, Dick Latvala, Blair Jackson, David Gans, Bruce Hornsby, Rob Wasserman, and Robert Hunter. Skeleton Key puts you on the Merry Pranksters'' bus behind the real Cowboy Neal, uncovers the origins of Cherry Garcia, follows the dancing bear on its trip from psychedelic artifact to trademarked icon, and unlocks the Dead''s own tape vault.Informative reading for the new fan or the most grizzled tourhead, Skeleton Key
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Random House USA Inc Tonight in Jungleland
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Springer Handbook of Recording Engineering
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W W Norton & Co Ltd Structural Functions of Harmony
Book SynopsisThis book is Schoenberg's last completed theoretical work and represents his final thoughts on the subject of classical and romantic harmony.
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WW Norton & Co Essence Of Opera
Book SynopsisThe process of operatic creation revealed in original writings by librettists and composers from 1600 to the present.
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WW Norton & Co Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory Classical America Series in Art and Architecture
Book SynopsisPerspectives on Contemporary Music Theory includes contributions to metatheory and methodology by Milton Babbitt, Arthur Berger, Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Boretz, Edward T. Cone, Henri Pousseur, and others; essays on compositional theory by composers such as Babbitt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, J. K. Randall, and Peter Westergaard.
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WW Norton & Co Duke
Book SynopsisDerek Jewell has performed a valuable task in writing the first complete biography of the greatest composer jazz has so far produced and one of America's most important musicians. -Andre Previn
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W. W. Norton & Company Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments
Book SynopsisEssay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments is a classic of musical literature in the true sense of the word.
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W. W. Norton & Company Sonata Forms 2e
Book Synopsis"Nobody writes better about music .... again and again, unerring insight into just the features that make the music special and fine."—The New York Review of Books
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Not Stated Hamlet Screenplay Introductiom and Film Diary Screenplay Introduction and Film Diary
Book SynopsisThe tie-in book to the latest Shakespearean film by Kenneth Branagh, whose Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing were huge critical and popular successes.
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W. W. Norton & Company Nadia Boulanger A Life in Music
Book SynopsisA detailed, authoritative portrait of a commanding figure in twentieth-century music.
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W W Norton & Co Ltd Essays Before a Sonata the Majority and Other Writings
Book SynopsisIves's second piano sonata, Concord, Mass., 1845, stands among the masterpieces of American music.
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W. W. Norton & Company Spike Lee Thats My Story and Im Sticking to It
Book SynopsisA candid account of one of America's most provocative filmmakers that belongs on the shelf of any serious movie lover.Trade Review"Fresh, judicious." -- Washington Post Book World
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