Malcolm Forsyth (1936-2011) was a musical legend: a much-loved composer, performer, teacher, and mentor. Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth presents a captivating and approachable portrait of one of Canada's finest modern composers. Readers...
Composers
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Auteur:Ingraham, Mary I.Sommaire: -
Auteur:Sawler, HarveySommaire:Put Your Hand in My Hand is the lyrical story of the relationship between one of Canada's most beloved singer-songwriters and his daughter, a talented musical artist. Gene MacLellan's contribution to the Canadian songbook is...
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Auteur:Deverell, WilliamSommaire:In Platinum Blues, Oliver Gulliver is a small-town lawyer in northern California, and he's slowly going broke. He's a plodder and a dreamer, has never tested himself in a big trial, and is immensely protective of his two teenage girls....
- Auteur:Sawler, HarveySommaire:
In this long-awaited biography, author Harvey Sawler traces the life of Ron Hynes, one of the most respected singer-songwriters in Canadian history. Through personal conversations and interviews, Sawler captures the spirit of an artist...
- Auteur:Wildenstein, OliviaSommaire:
Angie has studied music her entire life, nurturing her talent as a singer. Now a high-school senior, she has an opportunity to break into Nashville's music scene via a songwriting competition launched by her idol, Mona Stone....
- Auteur:Ouellette, Antoine, Mottron, LaurentSommaire:
En novembre 2007, l’écrivain et compositeur Antoine Ouellette est dia-gnostiqué Asperger, un syndrome appartenant au spectre autistique. L’auteur témoigne ici de son expérience et offre une visite guidée du monde autiste. Il souhaite...
- Auteur:Mozart, Wolfgang AmadeusSommaire:
Contents: The significance of Mozart -- Chips from the workshop -- Concerning the opera -- Musical pedagogics -- Touching musical performances -- expressions critical -- Opinions concerning others -- Wolfgang, the German --...
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Johnson' s focus is on the music--Mozart' s wondrous output of composition and his uncanny gift for instrumentation. Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. Mozart...
- Auteur:Berlioz, HectorSommaire:
Les Mémoires de Berlioz tracent le portrait exemplaire d'une sensibilité à l'époque romantique. Né en 1803, Berlioz est le contemporain de Hugo, de Delacroix et l'aîné de quelques années de Mendelssohn, Chopin,...
- Auteur:MacLeod, ElizabethSommaire:
Meet Buffy Sainte-Marie, music legend, activist and teacher! Buffy Sainte-Marie is not exactly sure where or when she was born, but it was likely the Piapot Reserve in the Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan. As a baby she was adopted...
- Auteur:Julien, Jacques, Ringuet, ChantalSommaire:
La carrière de Leonard Cohen s’est déployée par vagues successives. Admiré et célébré d’abord comme poète, il a donné l’essentiel de son message dans ses trois premiers albums. Si les suivants, plus singuliers, ont surtout été appréciés...
- Auteur:Posner, MichaelSommaire:
The extraordinary life of one of the world’s greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best.
Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon—there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen....
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Auteur:Marchwell, D. W.Sommaire:Suite de Tombé pour lui Deux ans se sont écoulés depuis que Hank Ballam et Scott Alan sont tombés amoureux, ont emménagé ensemble et commencé leur vie commune. Hank n’a pas rompu sa promesse à Brian, son patron et le frère de Scott,...
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Auteur:Schneider, JasonSommaire:Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, while simultaneously connecting with a mass audience. While nearly every songwriter who successfully crossed this divide...
- Auteur:Due, TananariveSommaire:
When Phoenix Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents' jazz club when she was crushed by a turn-of-the-century piano. Now twenty-four, Phoenix is launching a career as an R & B singer. She's living the life young...
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Auteur:Marom, MalkaSommaire:When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she’d first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More...
- Auteur:Mitchell, JoniSommaire:
When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she'd first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse....
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Auteur:Monk, KatherineSommaire:From the moment Joni Mitchell's career began — with coffee-house bookings, serendipitous encounters with established stars, and a recording contract that gave her full creative control over her music — the woman from the Canadian wheat...
- Auteur:Hood, AndrewSommaire:
Jim Guthrie: Who needs what tells the story of a musician whose twenty-year career has been spent either at the forefront of Canada's indie rock renaissance or in the backfround of some of the most popular inde games, films, and ad...
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Auteur:Bruneau, William, Duke, DavidSommaire:Jean Coulthard demonstrated that a Canadian woman could be a successful professional composer, whose music was, and still is, played extensively in concert halls across Canada and internationally. Through her seven-decade career she...
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