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Running Time: 09:09 hrsNarrator: Catherine BaileyPublisher:Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2020Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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Certified Accessible By: National Network for Equitable Library ServiceRunning Time: 09:09 hrsNarrator: Catherine BaileyPublisher:BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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- Author: Roberts, SophyDate:Created2020Summary:
Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos--grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, as well as humble, Soviet-made uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood.
Contents:- Pianomania, 1762-1917
- Music in a sleeping land : Sibir
- Traces in the snow : Khabarovsk
- Siberia is "civilized" : St Petersburg to the Pacific
- The Paris of Siberia : Irkutsk
- Pianos in a sandy Venice : Kiakhta
- The sound of Chopin's Poland: Tomsk
- Home in a hundred years: Sakhalin Island
- Broken chords, 1917-1991
- The last Tsar's piano : the Urals
- The end of everything : the Altai Mountains
- The Moscow of the East: Harbin
- Beethoven in a red chum: the Yamal Peninsula
- Music in the Gulag Archipelago: Kolyma
- The Siberian Colosseum: Novosibirsk
- Vera's Mühlbach: Akademgorodok
- Goodness knows where, 1992-Present day
- A game of risk: Kamchatka
- Siberia's last piano: the commanders to the Kurils
- Provenance regained: Khabarovsk
- Epilogue: the Orkhon Valley.
Genre:Subject(s): Keyboard instruments | Piano | TravelOriginal Publisher: [S.l.], Dreamscape Media, LLCLanguage(s): EnglishISBN: 9780802149299, 0802149294, 9781666552232
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