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Some Kind of Genius: The Extraordinary Journey of Musical Savant Tony Deblois
DeBlois, Janice and Antonia Felix
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Rodale First Edition
2005 ISBN: 1594862737 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The remarkable story of autistic, blind musical savant, Tony DeBlois. PSYCHOLOGY,NEUROLOGY,SAVANTS,BLINDNESS,AUTISM Book #7716 |
US$10.50 |
Jenny Lind's America
Cavanah, Frances
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Chilton First Edition
1969
Very Good Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Edge wear of boards. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge wear; now in a clear protective cover. "To mark the 150th anniversary of Jenny Lind's birth, Frances Cavanah, who with two previous books on the subject is an acknowledged authority on the Swedish Nightengale, has written the engrossing story of the effect of Jenny Lind on America, during her memorable tour of 1850-52." Illustrated. BIOGRAPHY,SINGERS,VOCALISTS,SWEDEN,SWEDISH NIGHTINGALE, NINETEENTH CENTURY,P.T. BARNUM Book# 5565 |
US$10.00 |
The Golden Age of Movie Musicals and Me
Chaplin, Saul
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University of Oklahoma Press
First Edition 1994
ISBN 0806126523 Fine Hardcover in Fair Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a small, closed corner tear and a lengthy tear taped on the reverse; now nicely held in a clear protective cover. Saul Chaplin worked on more than sixty films as a songwriter, vocal arranger, pianist, musical director, or producer. He received Academy Award nominations for Kiss Me Kate, High Society, An American in Paris, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and West Side Story and won Academy Awards for the last three..His insider's memoir is uniquely focused on the behind-the-scenes aspect of moviemaking. Illustrated. BIOGRAPHY,MEMOIRS,HOLLYWOOD,HOLLYWOOD MUSICALS,MOVIES,FILMS, FILMMAKING,SONGWRITING,SONGWRITERS Book# 5547 |
US$10.00 |
Copland, 1900 Through 1942
Copland, Aaron and Vivian Perlis
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St. Martin's Griffin
1999 ISBN: 0312011490 New Unread Oversized Trade Paperback. Unmarked. A candid and colorful memoir of one of America's most beloved musical pioneers - the composer of Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, Lincoln Portrait and other works. Illustrated. BIOGRAPHY,MEMOIRS,AMERICAN COMPOSERS,MUSICIANS,APPALACHIAN SPRING,LINCOLN PORTRAIT,TANGLEWOOD Book #5996 |
US$12.50 |
Memory Slips
Cutting, Linda Katherine
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HarperPerennial 1998
ISBN: 0060928794 New Unread Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "A Memoir of Music and Healing" Linda Katherine Cutting has performed as a pianist throughout the United States in solo and chamber music concerts and as a soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra and other orchestras. PIANISTS,MUSICIANS,BIOGRAPHY,MEMOIRS Book #4692 |
US$10.75 |
Fifty Favorite Operas
England, Paul
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Bonanza 1985 ISBN: 0517481030 Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild edge wear with a small closed tear; now nicely held in a clear protective cover. Fifty Favorite Operas is a popular guide to fifty operatic masterpieces. The operas, by Italian, German, French, and Russian composers, represent a wide range of styles from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Their arrangement gives readers a sense of the development and historical continuity of opera. CLASSICAL MUSIC,COMPOSERS,SINGERS Book #5267 |
US$12.00 |
Gilbert and Sullivan’s London
Goodman, Andrew
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Faber and Faber 2000
ISBN: 0571200168 New Unread Oversized Trade Paperback. Unmarked. By moving in and around London, backwards and forwards in time, Andrew Goodman unfolds the story of the most astonishing partnership in the history of British musical entertainment against the authentic background of the era in which it flourished. Forwards by Mike Leigh and Sir Charles Mackerras. Well illustrated. BRITISH HISTORY,TRAVEL,MUSIC HISTORY,OPERETTAS,COMPOSERS Book #7438 |
US$20.00 |
A Night at the Opera
Hewlett-Davies, Barry
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St. Martin's First Edition
1980 ISBN: 031257276X Near Fine Hardcover in Good Dustjacket. Small initials on back paste-down - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild edge wear and two small, closed tears; now nicely held in a clear protective cover. A Night at the Opera is an entertaining collection of anecdotes culled from every corner of the opera world. Personalities as diverse as giants like Rudolph Bing and Victor Borge, countless divas and conductors, even simply fanatic operagoers - all recount their favorite stories, memories and lore about opera on two continents. Illustrations by Lucy. OPERA,CLASSICAL MUSIC,OPERA SINGERS,DIVAS Book #5577 |
US$10.00 |
Callas: Portrait of a Prima Donna
Jellinek, George
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Dover 1986 ISBN: 0486250474 Good Trade Paperback. Moderate wear and creasing of wraps. Previous owner's small signature on front endpaper. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. Maria Callas was the most glamorous, most talked about, most flamboyantly idolized and most spectacularly assailed operatic figure of our time. OPERA,OPERA SINGERS,DIVAS Book #6027 |
US$4.95 |
Longing
Landis, J.D.
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Harcourt First Edition
2000 ISBN: 0151004536 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Slight corner bumping. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. An historical novel dealing with Robert and Clara Schumann. "Clara Wieck met Robert Schumann when she was eight years old and he was seventeen, and in time they would seduce each other and the world. Their love affair was famous, fervent, and ultimately tragic, and it blossomed during a time when passion and music were the stuff of life itself." COMPOSERS,PIANISTS,NINETEENTH CENTURY,ROMANCE,FICTION,HISTORICAL NOVELS,HISTORICAL FICTION Book #5080 |
US$17.50 |
Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead
Lesh, Phil
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Little, Brown First Edition
2005 ISBN: 0316009989 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead. Illustrated. BIOGRAPHY,ROCK MUSIC,ROCK MUSICIANS,JERRY GARCIA,GRATEFUL DEAD Book #7377 |
US$17.50 |
American Composers of Our Time
Machlis, Joseph
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Thomas Y. Crowell First Printing
1963 ISBN: Very Good Hardcover in Fair Dustjacket. Mild wear of board edges - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild edge wear and a small, closed tear; now held in a clear protective cover. An introduction to music of the American school. Deals with sixteen composers who have made substantial contributions to the field of American composition including MacDowell, Ives, Bernstein and others. COMPOSITIONS,HISTORY OF MUSIC,MUSICAL HISTORY,AMERICAN MUSIC Book #4444 |
US$12.00 |
We Danced All Night: My Life Behind the Scenes with Alan Jay Lerner
Shapiro, Doris
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William Morrow First Edition
1990 ISBN: 0688089372 Near Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Gentle creasing of some leaves.Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with several tiny nicks and small spot of back; in a clear protective cover. BROADWAY Book #1441 |
US$9.50 |
My First 79 Years
Stern, Isaac with Chaim Potok
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Da Capo 2000 ISBN: 0306810069 New Unread Trade Paperback. Bottom edge remainder mark. Told with Stern’s incomparable spirit and guided by acclaimed author Chaim Potok, My First 79 Years is a revealing autobiography, a candid portrait of a distinguished artist and humanitarian who has lived a lifetime of music. Well illustrated. MUSICIANS,VIOLINISTS,VIRTUOSOS,CLASSICAL MUSIC Book #7215 |
US$12.00 |
Emperors of Song: Three Great Impresarios
Stockdale, Freddie
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John Murray First Edition
1998 ISBN: 071955702X Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "Colonel' James Mapleson, Oscar Hammerstein I and John Christie were the greatest of the impresarios who sought to sell opera to the public. Acting alone, risking their money and producing on a grand scale, they were the giants of Opera's Golden Age. OPERA,MUSIC HISTORY,JAMES MAPLESON,OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN,JOHN CHRISTIE,MELBA,CARUSO,GLYNDEBOURNE,METROPOLITAN OPERA Book #6428 |
US$14.00 |
Mendelssohn and His World
Todd, R. Larry (edit.)
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Princeton University Press
1991 ISBN: 0691027153 Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Bringing together previously unpublished essays by historians and musicologists, reflections on Mendelssohn written by his contemporaries, the composer’s own letters, and early critical reviews of his music, this volume explores various facets of Mendelssohn’s music, his social and intellectual circles, and his career. MUSIC HISTORY,CLASSICAL MUSIC,COMPOSERS,CONDUCTORS,MUSICIANS,GERMAN MUSIC Book #7109 |
US$45.00 |
Who’s Afraid of Classical Music?
Walsh, Michael
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Castle 2004 ISBN: 0785817379 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A highly arbitrary, thoroughly opinionated guide to listening to and enjoying symphony, opera and chamber music. MUSIC HISTORY,CLASSICAL MUSIC,OPERA,CHAMBER MUSIC,SYMPHONIC MUSIC,COMPOSERS Book #7093 |
US$16.00 |
Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
Watson, Steven
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University of California Press
2000 ISBN: 0520223535 Near Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Two tiny spots on front endpapers. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The story of the making of the 1934 Virgil Thomson / Gertrude Stein opera, Four Saints. OPERA,LITERATURE,CULTURAL HISTORY,MODERNITY,MODERNISTS Book #6398 |
US$12.00 |
Willie and Dwike: An American Profile
Zinsser, William
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Harper & Row Book Club
Edition 1984 ISBN: 0060152753 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Willie and Dwike are Willie Ruff and Dwike Mitchell, a jazz duo famous in the jazz world both as musicians and as teachers. WILLIE RUFF,DWIKE MITCHELL,JAZZ Book #3833 |
US$17.50 |