This story is about Marguerite, an accomplished pianist who lost her ability to play the piano after suffering a paralytic stroke that almost took her life.
In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women in music, and information on the music of a handful of black women composers, such as Florence Price and Mary Lou Williams, has been published.
Long before the Grammy nominations, sold-out performances at Carnegie Hall, and Hollywood friends and lovers, Ryan Adams fronted a Raleigh, North Carolina, outfit called Whiskeytown.
In this classic work on music biography, Sacheverell Sitwell narrates Franz Liszt's rapid ascent to European fame - and the effect that this incredible early success as a wonderfully gifted pianist had on his later life - with insight, sympathy and humanity, One of the very first studies of Liszt to be published in English, this remarkable biography uses the full force of Sitwell's poetic talent to bring this brilliant and difficult man's world vividly to life, and captures the artistic mood of the era in extraordinary detail.
Full of sketches, doodles and journal entries, Travels with My Sketchbook gives a fascinating glimpse of the incredible journey of Chris Riddell's time as Children's Laureate.
Brian Blessed has a lifelong love of animals and over the years has rescued cats and dogs, horses and ponies, and even a very ungrateful fighting cock.
The essence of Zen Bodhisattva offers the true disciple the clear way to train through the direct path of zazen meditation and koan practice through realizing all ten perfections of the bodhisattva way of enlightenment through the Prajnaparamita-Sutra.
I grew up in an environment where the father in the house made all the rules; my mother never made a decision in our house; I was sexually abused by my father and my uncles; I was married 3 time and involved with a man in the underworld; I was controlled as a newly wed by both my side of the family and my husbands.
A marriage journey that will help and encourage married couple who are going through turbulent and trying times not to quit but to strive hard to learn how to forgive and love each other on this earthly journey and continue to love and support one another.
