Although Gustav Mahler was a famous conductor in Vienna and New York, the music that he wrote was condemned during his lifetime and for many years after his death in 1911. “Pages of dreary emptiness,” sniffed a leading American...
Composers
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Author:Lebrecht, NormanSummary: -
Author:McDonough, Yona ZeldisSummary:Born in Austria in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his first piece of music, a minuet, when he was just five years old! Soon after, he was performing for kings and emperors. Although he died at the young age of thirty-five,...
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Author:Marchwell, D. W.Summary:Sequel to Falling It's been two years since Hank Ballam and Scott Alan fell in love, moved in together and started building their life. Hank has kept his promise to his boss—and Scott’s brother—Brian, proving he can be both his...
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Author:Beckwith, John, Cherney, BrianSummary:John Weinzweig (1913-2006) was the pre-eminent Canadian composer of his generation. Influenced by European modernists such as Stravinsky, Berg, and Webern, he was the first Canadian composer to employ serialism, thereby bringing a...
- Author:Bakewell, CatherineSummary:
Twelve-year-old Elissa has been raised in seclusion as a devotee of the Mother Goddess. But though she travels to spread hope and healing, there are those who would use her gift for darker things. And when Elissa finds herself the...
- Author:Wright, James K., Rogers, AllysonSummary:
Eldon Davis Rathburn (1916-2008), one of the most multi-dimensional, prolific, and endlessly fascinating composers of the twentieth century, wrote more music than any other Canadian composer of his generation. During a long and...
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Author:Wynne-Jones, TimSummary:The Maestro. Burl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life. His father is a manipulative lout with a dangerous temper; his mother, worn down by years of abuse, now resorts to her little helpers to get her through the days. Then he...
- Author:Solomons, NatashaSummary:
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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Author:Morrow, BradfordSummary:In the early days of the new millennium, pages of a worn and weathered original sonata manuscript-the gift of a Czech immigrant living out her final days in Queens-come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert...
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Author:Wynne-Jones, TimSummary:Burl Crow hasn't had many breaks in his young life. His father is a manipulative lout with a dangerous temper; his mother, worn down by years of abuse, now resorts to her little helpers to get her through the days. Then he meets...
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Author:Leon, DonnaSummary:Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career elsewhere, mostly abroad. She lands in Birmingham, England, as a research fellow and assistant professor. Birmingham,...
- Author:Lurie, JohnSummary:
The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie "A picaresque roller coaster of a story, with staggering amounts of sex and drugs and the perpetual...
- Author:Priest, ChristopherSummary:
Alesandro Sussken is a composer living in Glaund, a fascist state constantly at war with another equally faceless opponent. His brother is sent off to fight; his family is destroyed by grief. Occasionally Alesandro catches glimpses of...
- Author:Slocumb, BrendanSummary:
A gripping page-turner from the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy : Music professor Bern Hendricks discovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time-his music may have been...
- Author:Rhindress, CharlieSummary:
Stompin' Tom Connors is a legend. There are very few Canadians who don?t know the foot-stompin' patriot in the cowboy hat who sang almost exclusively of the country he loved and called home. But there is much more to Tom Connors than '...
- Author:MacLean, TaraSummary:
An astonishing memoir about how song saved a life. Singer/songwriter Tara MacLean has had an extraordinary musical career. From being discovered singing on a BC ferry to touring with Dido, Tom Cochrane and Lilith Fair, her solo albums...
- Author:Harris, RobertSummary:
The greatest story never told, this formidable and gorgeous biography documents the amazing and controversial short life of Calixa Lavallée - the composer of O Canada - and the tumult of 19th-century North America. The story of O Canada...
- Author:Purdum, Todd S.Summary:
A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the soundtrack to the American Century They stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals...
- Author:Thériault, LouiseSummary:
Près de trente-cinq ans après la dissolution du mythique groupe Harmonium, Serge Fiori se livre à Louise Thériault, qui dresse de lui un portrait tout en nuances, plein d’empathie mais jamais complaisant. Grâce à des dizaines d’heures d...
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Author:Brouwer, SigmundSummary:Webb thinks he has what it takes to make it in Nashville, but one shady music producer may have the power to crush Webb's dreams.
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