Samuel Barber: His Life and Legacy, Howard Pollack

Автор: Steel John Howard
Название: Caged Lion: Joseph Pilates and His Legacy
ISBN: 1733430709 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733430708
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The surprising story of Pilates--the man and the method.

Part biography, part history, and part memoir, Caged Lion untangles for the first time Joseph Pilates's opaque life story and the perilous journey of his exercise program known the world over as Pilates.

This is the story of Joseph Pilates, a gifted man who immigrated to the United States at forty-three with no assets or credentials. He not only invented an exercise regimen--which today is practiced by more than ten million people--but in the process, reinvented himself.

John Howard Steel brings Joseph Pilates and his eponymous exercise regime to life from his unique perspective as a student, friend, and confidant. Joe's influence profoundly changed Steel's life; in turn, Steel was crucial for the survival of the Pilates Method and Joe's legacy. Steel's vivid account traces the expansion of Pilates from a small cadre of dedicated adherents, through two periods of near extinction, to the global sensation it is today. Steel describes Joseph Pilates's years as a prisoner during World War I, Joe's motivation to discover his system of exercises, his inspirational teaching technique, and the unique attraction of the Pilates Method. It's quite a story.

Автор: Moriarty Karen
Название: Defending a King His Life & Legacy
ISBN: 1432794426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781432794422
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Описание: Meyer London (1871-1926), a Russian Jewish immigrant, settled in New York`s Lower East Side in 1891. He became a lawyer, labor activist, founding member of the Socialist Party of America, and a three term Congressman, advocating peaceful and gradual methods and refusing to take rigid doctrinal positions. Elected to Congress in 1914 as the lone Socialist he demonstrated political skill and courage.

Автор: Richards, Matt Langthorne, Mark
Название: Somebody to love
ISBN: 1911600044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911600046
Издательство: Bonnier Books
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Описание: In Somebody to Love, biographers Mark Langthorne and Matt Richards skilfully weave both Freddie Mercury`s incredible pursuit of musical greatness with Queen, his upbringing and his endless search for love with the story of a terrible disease that swept across the world in the 1980s.

Автор: Spillett, Simon
Название: Long shadow of the little giant
ISBN: 1781795053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781795057
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Описание: In this new, expanded paperback edition, award-winning saxophonist and writer Simon Spillett, widely regarded as the world`s leading authority on Hayes and his work, painstakingly outlines a career that alternated professional success and personal downfall.

Автор: Navon, Amos
Название: Mozart
ISBN: 1941905005 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781941905005
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: History records Mozart as a man whose melodies seemed to have sprung from angels, reaching him faster than he could write them down. How did he manage to develop and excel professionally in spite of family tragedies and personal hardship? What made this amazing musical polymath tick? In this book Dr Amos Navon answers profound and hypnotic questions about the man behind the music by examining those elements in Mozarts life that shaped his personality and determined his destiny. Navon describes Mozarts remarkable development through writing wind instrument music for virtuoso friends and explores Mozarts collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte, the librettist of his three greatest operas. But this is not simply a dry exploration of composition. We learn of the very human Mozart -- of Constanze, who barely survived as Mozarts wife and the mother of his children, and who, after his death, spent her life keeping her husbands memory alive. The rounded-out story of this intensely human being reflects Mozarts dependence on friends in times of financial need, the role of gambling in his daily life, his attitude toward religion, and whether his ultimate dream of living a wealthy, bourgeois life ever really materialised.

Автор: Heyman Barbara B.
Название: Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music
ISBN: 0190863730 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190863739
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This second edition of the award-winning biography of one of the most important American composers benefits from a quarter century of new discoveries, including manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, scholarly publications, and serendipitous finds.

Автор: James R. Walker, Judith R. Hiltner
Название: Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend
ISBN: 1496222857 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496222855
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: 2023 SABR Baseball Research Award
A Booklist Top 10 Sports & Recreation Book
Finalist for the 2023 Seymour Medal
Finalist for the 2022 CASEY Award

Born and raised in rural Mississippi and the even balmier climes of central Florida, Red Barber, at the age of thirty-two, became one of New York City’s most influential citizens as the play-by-play announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers. When he arrived in 1939, Barber brought the down-home drawl and idioms of his southern roots to the borough, where residents said they could walk down any street and never miss a pitch because his voice wafted out of every window and every passing car. From his colorful expressions like “rhubarb” and “sitting in the catbird seat” to his vivid use of similes—a close game was “tighter than a new pair of shoes on a rainy day”—Barber’s influence on his contemporaries and the many generations of broadcasters who followed him cannot be overstated. But behind all the base hits, balls, and strikes lies a compelling story that dramatizes the shifting expectations and roles of a public figure—the sports broadcaster—as he adapted to complex cultural changes throughout the course of twentieth-century American life.

Red Barber follows the trajectory of Barber's long career from radio and television play-by-play man for the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Yankees to his work calling college and professional football games, his nine-year tenure as director of sports for CBS Radio, and his second acts as an Episcopal lay reader, sportswriter, and weekly guest with Bob Edwards on NPR’s Morning Edition. This talented public figure was also a private man committed to rigorous self-examination and willing to evolve and grow under the influence of changing times. When the Dodgers first signed Jackie Robinson and smashed the color barrier in Major League Baseball, Barber struggled to overcome the racism he had absorbed from his culture as a child. But after observing the vicious abuse Robinson endured from opposing fans, Barber became an ardent supporter of him and the many Black players who followed. Barber was also bothered deeply by the strains that his single-minded careerism imposed on his family. He was challenged to navigate longtime family tensions after his only child, Sarah, came out as a lesbian. And his primary role during the later years of his life was caretaking for his wife, Lylah, during her decline from Alzheimer’s disease, at a time when the ailment was something many families concealed.

Ultimately Red Barber traces the career of a true radio and television pioneer who was committed to the civic responsibility of mass media. Barber firmly believed the most important role of a broadcaster was telling the truth and promoting public well-being.

Автор: Wentzel, Wayne
Название: Samuel Barber
ISBN: 0415875587 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415875585
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Автор: Kearney Leslie
Название: Tchaikovsky and His World
ISBN: 0691602638 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691602639
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Tchaikovsky has long intrigued music-lovers as a figure who straddles many borders--between East and West, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, tradition and innovation, tenderness and bombast, masculine and feminine. In this book, through consideration of his music and biography, scholars from several disciplines explore the many sides of Tchaikovsky.

Автор: Todd R. Larry
Название: Schumann and His World
ISBN: 0691607028 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691607023
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Описание: We know Robert Schumann in many ways: as a visionary composer, a seasoned journalist, a cultured man of letters, and a genius who, having passed his mantle on to the young Brahms, succumbed to mental illness in 1856. Drawing on recent pathbreaking research, this collection offers new perspectives on this seminal nineteenth-century figure. In Part

Автор: John Howard Steel, Steel
Название: Caged lion: joseph pilates and his legac
ISBN: 1733430725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733430722
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Описание: The surprising story of Pilates-the man and the method.

Автор: Todd R. Larry
Название: Schumann and His World
ISBN: 0691635692 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691635699
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: We know Robert Schumann in many ways: as a visionary composer, a seasoned journalist, a cultured man of letters, and a genius who, having passed his mantle on to the young Brahms, succumbed to mental illness in 1856. Drawing on recent pathbreaking research, this collection offers new perspectives on this seminal nineteenth-century figure. In Part