In a remarkable memoir written with insight and humor, Glenn Kurtz takes us from his first lessons at the age of eight to his acceptance at the elite ......
The death of classical music, the distinguished critic and musicologist Joseph Kerman declares, is “a tired, vacuous concept that will not die.” In th......
Where does the impulse to create originate? How does one cope with the highs and lows of the artist's life? What is the choreographer's responsibility......
More than 600,000 people visit Graceland every year, making it one of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States. With Graceland: An I......
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In Stardust Melodies, Will Friedwald takes each of these legendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggering wealth of detail and unpr......
Gathered together in one volume for the first time: all of the incomparable song lyrics of Irving Berlin, whose career and work are the most important......
Recalling Nick Hornby's Songbook and Rob Sheffield's more recent Love is a Mix Tape, Lafargue's memoir chronicles life events major and minor through ......
Whether Gould's subject is Boulez, Stokowski, Streisand, or his own highly individual thoughts on performance and creation of music, the reader will b......
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Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary t......
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At last An A-to-Z reference guide for readers who want to learn the cryptic language of Rock Snobs, those arcana-obsessed people who speak of "Rickenb......
A basic primer for anyone without musical training who wishes to learn to read musical scores when singing or taking up an instrument, this accessible......
If the opera world is full of " intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics, " then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropol......
Award-winning Cuban novelist, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, interviews the movers and shakers of the Salsa music world creating an oral history of the musi......
In 1964, on the brink of the British Invasion, the music business in America shunned rock and roll. There was no rock press, no such thing as artist m......
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By the best-selling co-author of Inner Tennis, here's a book designed to help musicians overcome obstacles, help improve concentration, and reduce ner......
"The Inner Game of Music," the breakout hit that became a standard primer in the music world, has taught thousands of musicians--professionals and ama......
