Chloe McBride has some reservations about accepting her elderly great-aunts' invitation to spend part of the summer with them in Little Venice, but her initial reluctance is outweighed by her curiosity about the mysterious key that came...
Pianists
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Auteur:Desjardins, MarieSommaire:Hongrois d’origine, fils d’un violoniste éleveur de chevaux, Vic est l’enfant doué du jazz. Musicien, arrangeur, chef d’orchestre et compositeur, il a joué aux côtés de Miles Davis, d’Oscar Peterson, de Sammy Davis, de Michel Legrand. A...
- Auteur:Solomons, NatashaSommaire:
Harry Fox-Talbot and his brothers are determined to save their once grand home from ruin. Fifty years later, now a celebrated composer, Fox reels from the death of his adored wife, Edie. But his connection with his four-year-old...
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Auteur:L'Engle, MadeleineSommaire:"An unusual and beautiful book," the first novel by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time explores the life of a young artist (Los Angeles Times). At only ten years old, Katherine Forrester has already experienced her fair share...
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Auteur:Clarkson, MichaelSommaire:Long after his death, Glenn Gould still lures new listeners to his piano, connecting with them on a haunting, personal level. “He feels and you feel,” says young New York writer Nicole Spectre. “I can feel his pain and joy — it touches...
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Auteur:Karp, LarrySommaire:Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano-playing fool, hears Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” played one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It’s destiny calling. Asking for ragtime lessons, he’s told, “No, Ragtime is colored music.” So Brun runs...
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Auteur:Karp, LarrySommaire:It’s 1951, and ragtime is making a comeback. In Sedalia, Missouri, plans are underway for a ceremony to honor Scott Joplin. Brun Campbell, the old Ragtime Kid, is working to establish Joplin’s legacy. Brun learns of a journal Joplin...
- Auteur:O'Neill, HeatherSommaire:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Book A NOW Magazine Book You Have to Read A Toronto Star Book We Can't Wait to Read "Heather O'Neill is just getting better...
- Auteur:TAYLOR, WilliamSommaire:
n his sixth form year, Matthew 'Spider' Trent must make decisions regarding his future with little guidance from his family, but the opportunity to enter a piano competition gives him a focus and provides the direction he...
- Auteur:Jae-Jones, S.Sommaire:
The conclusion to the gorgeous and lush Wintersong duology, Shadowsong by S. Jae-Jones. Six months after the end of Wintersong, Liesl is working toward furthering both her brother's and her own musical careers. Although she is...
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Auteur:Wren, JacobSommaire:Who hasn't, at one time or another, considered killing a billionaire? Rich and Poor is a novel of a man who washes dishes for a living and decides to kill a billionaire as a political act. It is literature as political theory...
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Auteur:Shearing, GeorgeSommaire:"Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name in the US, as a result of the "Shearing sound"―the recordings of his historic late 1940s quintet. Together with his unique...
- Auteur:Cliche, NormandSommaire:
1945. Dans le Québec rural de l’après-guerre, à Saint-Georges, en Beauce, un jeune pianiste orphelin réchauffe le coeur d’une marchande d’amour convertie. Donné en adoption à un vendeur de bétail violent, l’adolescent fait face à une...
- Auteur:Lavallée, FrançoisSommaire:
Deux personnages antinomiques:David, jeune homme timide, indécis, qui étudie le piano et rêve d’écrire un roman et Octave, bourlingueur, coureur, cynique et sûr de lui. L’un sauve la vie de l’autre…pour mieux l’empoisonner. Entre les...
- Auteur:CARTER, MikeSommaire:
Jessie's not so sure about moving to an Outback Australian town, but her Dad and her therapist think it might be good for her. She's leaving her life as Ginny Ford, famous pianist and all-round smart kid, and starting again as...
- Auteur:Chilton, KarenSommaire:
Chilton explores the life of legendary jazz performer and civil rights activist Hazel Scott. From her birthplace in Trinidad to the lively streets of Harlem and beyond in the 1940s and '50s, Scott created a legacy of achievement that...
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Auteur:Konieczny, VladimirSommaire:Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was a prodigy who loathed the word, a brilliant pianist who disliked performing, and a public figure who craved solitude. With his recording of the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach, Gould became an international...
- Auteur:Kingwell, MarkSommaire:
Glenn Gould, one of the twentieth century’s most renowned classical musicians, was also known as an eccentric genius—solitary, headstrong, a hypochondriac virtuoso. Abandoning stage performances in 1964, Gould concentrated instead on...
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Auteur:Walker, AlanSommaire:A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time.Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C.,...
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Auteur:Engle, MargaritaSommaire:As a little girl, Teresa Carreño loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. If she felt sad, music cheered her up, and when she was happy, the piano helped her share that joy. Soon she was writing her own...
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