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| Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician
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Barry Seldes.
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| Publisher: California. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780520257641. Daedalus Item Code: 24085 |
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| In this fresh and revealing biography of Leonard Bernstein, Barry Seldes examines the composer and conductor's career against the backdrop of Cold War America. Bernstein endured blacklisting by the ... (Read More)
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| Licks & Tricks, Vol. 2
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Johnny Hiland.
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| Publisher: Mel Bay Publications. Format: paperback & CD.
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| ISBN: 9780786671489. Daedalus Item Code: 22603 |
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| A seasoned sideman of Toby Keith and Ricky Skaggs, Johnny Hiland tips his hand to reveal some distinctive country and blues licks for any guitarist's repertoire. With an emphasis on good taste rather ... (Read More)
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| Louis Armstrong: Jazz Musician
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Brendan January. Francois Roca, illus.
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| Publisher: Mason Crest. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781590841358. Daedalus Item Code: 30992 |
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| Illuminated with François Roca's softly glowing paintings, reminiscent of the art of Edward Hopper, this life of Louis Armstrong is filled with images of jazz musicians and the great man himself, ... (Read More)
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| Making Music: Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields
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Christian Tyler.
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| Publisher: Unicorn Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781906509040. Daedalus Item Code: 31793 |
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| In the history of modern music, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and its founding director Sir Neville Marriner have had arguably the longest and most productive relationship on record, going ... (Read More)
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| Monty Python Live!: The Never-Before-Told Story of Six and a Half Men and a Girl on the Road
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Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Eric Idle, ed.
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| Publisher: Hyperion. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781401323677. Daedalus Item Code: 30058 |
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| Let's say, for the sake of argument, that you've already availed yourself of all the Monty Python television recordings, books, feature films, memoirs, concert performances, side projects, and ... (Read More)
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| Mozart: World-Famous Composer
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Diane Cook. Victoria Fomina, illus.
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| Publisher: Mason Crest. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781590841594. Daedalus Item Code: 30997 |
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| In fantastic images as whimsical as the stage designs for the opera The Magic Flute, Victoria Fomina illustrates this life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Born in Salzburg in the middle of the ... (Read More)
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| A Ned Rorem Reader
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Ned Rorem. J.D. McClatchy, foreword.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300089844. Daedalus Item Code: 11742 |
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| This anthology of composer Ned Rorem's acerbic musings on music, people, and life—a co-winner of the 2002 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in the Symphonic Books Category—surveys the full range of his ... (Read More)
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| New Historical Anthology of Music by Women
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James R. Briscoe, ed.
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| Publisher: Indiana. Format: spiral.
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| ISBN: 9780253216830. Daedalus Item Code: 31949 |
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| This substantial, spiral-bound anthology features 55 compositions by 46 women composers from the ancient Greeks to the present. Each work is introduced by an essay, with translations of the lyrics as ... (Read More)
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| The Noel Coward Reader
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Barry Day, ed.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307273376. Daedalus Item Code: 23515 |
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| A fellow who has given us half a dozen books on Noël Coward and edited his letters (he is, after all, a trustee of the Noël Coward Foundation), Barry Day here collects a broad and very fine sampling ... (Read More)
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| Notes on Mendelssohn: 20 Crucial Works
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Conrad Wilson.
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| Publisher: Eerdmans. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780802829955. Daedalus Item Code: 63545 |
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| Perhaps the greatest child prodigy in the history of Western music, Felix Mendelssohn nonetheless is frequently dismissed today as a victim of creative burnout, says Conrad Wilson. Here, Wilson ... (Read More)
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| Paris Modern: The Swedish Ballet 1920–1925
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Nancy Van Norman Baer.
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| Publisher: Fine Arts Museums SF. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780884010814. Daedalus Item Code: 13912 |
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| Along with cutting-edge art, literature, and jazz music of 1920s Paris, there was also experimental new dance, exemplified by the Ballets Suedois, the "Swedish Ballet." Choreographed almost entirely ... (Read More)
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| Seven Mozart Librettos: A Verse Translation
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J.D. McClatchy, trans.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393066098. Daedalus Item Code: 23894 |
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| The editor of the Yale Review and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, J.D. McClatchy is also a librettist with ... (Read More)
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