OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012LONGLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATUREAmal is driving his wife Claud from London to her parents' country house.
Humanity lives inside 4 unyielding constraints, the speed of light, conservation of mass-energy, inefficiency in conversion of heat to work, and the law of demand.
Paul McCartney's songwriting output as a member of the Beatles, mainly with his co-writer John Lennon, has been exhaustively documented over the years.
The cellist in exile is, of course, Pablo Casals, one of the noble figures of the century, who is aptly described here by Bernard Taper as that rarity-an artist with a sense of commitment to humanity.
Unlock the secrets of masterful piano playing with Tobias Matthay's seminal work, "e;The Act of Touch in All Its Diversity: An Analysis and Synthesis of Pianoforte Tone-Production.
Scientific Challenges to Evolutionary Theory: How These Challenges Affect Religion addresses all aspects of the giant battle between two major belief systemsthose that believe in a ';naturalistic worldview' and evolution, and those that believe in a miracle-performing God and the Creation of all things.
Scientific Challenges to Evolutionary Theory: How These Challenges Affect Religion addresses all aspects of the giant battle between two major belief systemsthose that believe in a ';naturalistic worldview' and evolution, and those that believe in a miracle-performing God and the Creation of all things.
Featuring forewords from bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this is the official and fully authorised biography of the world's most revered and celebrated drummer.
In this book, Andy Gill assesses the circumstances behind Dylan's most famous songs, tracing the artist's progress from young tyro folkie to acclaimed protest singer, and through the subsequent changes which saw him invent folk-rock and transform rock 'n' roll with symbolist poetry, before retreating into country-tinged conservatism just as his followers were engaged in the great psychedelic freak-show of the late 1960s.
From his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights, Paul Robeson was one of the twentieth century's greatest icons and polymaths.
Humanity lives inside 4 unyielding constraints, the speed of light, conservation of mass-energy, inefficiency in conversion of heat to work, and the law of demand.
It's been two decades since the fall of apartheid, a quarter century since the liberation of Eastern European states, five decades since the death of American ';Jim Crow,' and seventy-plus years since the beginning of the emancipation of the African states.
This autobiography of the famous Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf was dictated from his death-bed, completed only two days before the artist's death on 24 October 1799.
It's been two decades since the fall of apartheid, a quarter century since the liberation of Eastern European states, five decades since the death of American ';Jim Crow,' and seventy-plus years since the beginning of the emancipation of the African states.
Sie wird auch »Die Eiskönigin« genannt und das nicht zu Unrecht: Ellen Kramer hat noch nie einen Hehl daraus gemacht, dass ihr verschwitzte Rockstars und wahllose Liebesaffären mehr als nur zuwider sind.
Frühstück mit Giora - Im Juli 2012 hatte ich das Privileg, den großen Klarinettisten und Instrumentalsolisten der Klezmer-Musik Giora Feidman in Bad Staffelstein, Oberfranken, zu treffen.
"Popayán en las canciones de Sergio Rojas Fajardo" es un libro que pretende acercar al lector al conocimiento de la vida y la obra de este compositor payanés (Popayán 1920 - Bogotá 1993), y mostrar como plasmó en doce de sus creaciones su admiración por cada rincón de la ciudad que lo vio nacer gracias al dominio del lenguaje descriptivo con el que bosquejó sus ideas.
Camille Saint-Saëns: geboren 1835 in Paris – achteinhalb Jahre nach dem Tod Beethovens –, gestorben 1921 in Algier – achteinhalb Jahre nach der Uraufführung von Strawinskys «Sacre du printemps».
Caricaturas de grandes creadores: Musicos clasicos es un sorprendente compendio dedicado a los compositores mas influyentes de la musica clasica occidental de los ultimos mil anos, desde los polifonistas de la Edad Media hasta los actuales autores de bandas sonoras para cine.
