This book combines music, drama, scenery and movement. This magnificent personal opera moves along at a wonderful pace and has a clever sense of humor. It recognizes that love is primarily giving, not receiving. The author strives for perfection and reaches it. He takes us on his sabbatical around the world with beautiful condensed prose. The chapters are the story of his life and the appendixes are his reason for being. ...

Tupac' Shakur's bodyguard during the last year of his life relates the real story of the rapper's murder, offering an insider's view of a life gone awry. 8-page photo insert. ...

Pull up a ringside seat to the exultant pageant of New York's night life, commerce and scoiety, from the Cotton Club to Wall Street to Broadway. Charles Wohlsetter was a young acolyte to George Gershwin, Bernard Baruch, Abe Burrows, J. Paul Getty and George S. Kaufman. He was admitted as a junior member of the Algonquin Round Table with Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Franklin P. Adams and Alexander Woollcott. His Algonquin cohorts would have ...

A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the center of this riveting narrative. For 20 years, Tosches searched for facts about the life of Emmett Miller, a yodeling blackface performer whose songs prefigured jazz, country, blues, and much of the popular music of the 20th century. photos. ...

Adopting an Iberian-American heritage, she reinvented herself as Felipa Monterro, an ultra-right conservative who wrote and lectured for the John Birch Society. Her experiment failed, as had her parents' dream of smashing America's racial barriers. But at the age of thirty five, Philippa finally began to embark on a racial catharsis: She was just beginning to find herself when on May 9, 1967, while on an unauthorized mission of mercy, her life ...

This illustrated guide to the most influential composers of the 20th and 21st centuries encompasses detailed biographies as well as placing the most important works into historical context. ...

Wrenching, shocking, but ultimately hopeful, this novel will bring readers a story of growth in the worst of circumstances, a young girl's attempt to make sense of her life, and a powerful emotional experience wrought in searing, unadulterated prose.
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Rolfe chronicles his mother's struggle as a budding musician, her tragic relationship with her parents, and the solace she found when Cather became her mentor. ...

1911. Illustrated. The memoirs of the musician, Theodore Thomas, written by his wife. He is best remembered for his efforts, more than to any one else in this country, to introduce an appreciation of the modern school of German music to the American public. Among his many accomplishments Thomas was the leading spirit in founding the New York Wagner union, which was established for the purpose of aiding in the festival performance of the ...

This guide examines the growth of Bruce Springsteen's career, from the optimistic youth to the respected heavyweight songwriter of today. ...