Reginald Hach offers the reader the story of his transition from beginning conservatory music student to performer on the worlds stages, who learns to circumvent the debilitating nature of stage fright and go on to a successful career as a composer, performer, and teacher of music.
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.
Sager Brown, as an orphanage and school in the bayou country of Louisiana, served the intellectual and social developmental interests of black children for over a century when few if any other avenues were available.
"La Msica de Haydn en la "Creacin" no es pattica como la deHaendel en sus Oratorios: tiene siempre ese verdor de primavera,esa sutileza que entrega la lnea ondulante en la danza de la Corte,esa inspiracin de frescura y optimismo que slo se encuentra enalgunos pintores del Renacimiento y en los poetas buclicos de laHlade y del Lacio.
Step into the Spotlight: How Ordinary People Transformed into Household NamesIn a world captivated by the glow of fame, Rise to Fame: Stories & Strategies of the Self-Made Celebrity serves as both a beacon and a roadmap for those daring enough to dream of the spotlight.
James Joyce, Rome and other Stories outlines the months in which Irish author James Joyce (Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) lived in Rome, between 1906 and 1907.
Pass Your Own Audition goes out to singers of all experience levels and to all readers who have wanted to sing or follow any passion, but have found prioritizing their creative passion or even their own health to be difficult.
One of the major frustrations of my professional musical life has been the continual reminder of how few talented young string players, even those with exceptional instrumental skill, seem to truly understand the importance of reflecting their very own personal emotional experiences within the fabric of their musical interpretations and performances.
A compact, meaningful prayer tool geared toward the East Asian entertainment industry, Prayers for Oppa contains 20 devotionals on topics of interest to performers:Giving an outdoor concert on a rainy night?
Popular music an acculturative product of the African folk musicscrutinized along the lines of musical and social processes as inseparable pair in developing the various genres of the eclectic musical form.
Majorlabelland and Assorted Oddities is comprised of an essay about hard rock bands in the eighties and nineties and their struggles with major record labels which resulted in several albums that have never been released.
Kevin McCormack has written a large number of transport books mainly using previously unpublished material, much of it sourced from the Online Transport Archive.