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Phaidon Press Limited
Anton Von Webern Description: Anton von Webern (1883 1945) was born into the aristocratic, musical heritage of Vienna. An early passion for Renaissance vocal music haunts his compositions, but as a result of his studies with Schoenberg he became a disciple of the twelve-note technique which he used to create a sound characteristically his own. Tragically killed during the Allied occupation of Austria, he remains an influence on musicians of subsequent generations.... Read More about the "Anton Von Webern" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Haus Publishing Ltd
Brahms Description: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was one of the seminal musical figures of the 19th century. He shot to fame as a dashing young performer and composer, the one who had to come according to Robert Schumann. He consciously switched this image, refashioning himself as elder statesman of German music, the heir to Bach and Beethoven. The internal competition between romantic lion and eminence grise enlivened his music, which has influenced nearly every composer that followed him. Adopted by the anti-Wagnerian faction as the leader of traditional principles against `modern` iconoclasm, his fame as a composer spread rapidly. At the start of the 21st century, his influence remains as acute as ever.... Read More about the "Brahms" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Phaidon Press Limited
Francis Poulenc Description: Francis Poulenc (1899 1963) fought the label of `charming, minor master` all his life, but today his oeuvre has achieved world wide respect and popularity. Admired for his fine songs and religious works, he is perhaps best known for humorous, insouciant pieces. From the freshness of Les Biches, composed for Diaghilev in 1924, to his ambitious 1956 opera, Dialogues des Carmelites, the author discusses Poulenc`s work in the context of his colourful personal life and turbulent times. The composer`s affairs with working-class younger men, which inspired major compositions, and his sensitivity about his role in the wartime occupation of France, have always been somewhat obscured; in this book the author uses recently published documents to shed new light on the composer and the man.... Read More about the "Francis Poulenc" on the The Nile Book Store Website

The Nile Book Store
Frank Sinatra: The Songs The Style The Voice: Rough Guide Description: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra traces the life of the king of showbiz and the voice of a century. Covering Sintra`s style, attitude, essence, and hipster language, this guide is an essential part of any fan`s collection. Additional features include photographs, anecdotes behind 50 essential performances, the hits and misses in Sintra`s movie career, and the legend`s influences.... Read More about the "Frank Sinatra: The Songs The Style The Voice: Rough Guide" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Haus Publishing Ltd
Gershwin Description: This biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937) evokes the pace and color of New York in the 1920s and 1930s and places Gershwin at the center of the Jazz age. He rose from being one of the two talented sons of poor Russian-Jewish parents in Manhattan`s lower East Side to being the leading composer of his time. He was the bridge between serious music and light entertainment, the creator of the haunting Rhapsody in Blue, Porgy and Bess, and An American in Paris. His compositions are still used today as tools for teachers everywhere as examples of the American entrance to the musical world of Stravinsky, Chopin, Beethoven and Mozart.... Read More about the "Gershwin" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Phaidon Press Limited
Gyorgy Ligeti Description: The Hungarian Gyorgy Ligeti (b. 1923) is one of the most highly regarded and influential of living composers. Having survived persecution as a Jew during World War II, he fled to West Germany during the Hungarian Revolution, where his early musical development was shaped by his work in the Cologne electronic studios and by the influence of Stockhausen. Rather than becoming too closely identified with any single school or movement, Ligeti`s music has drawn on a divers range of sources, from the folk music of his native Hungary to African and South American World music. In works such as his Requiem, used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, he has proved that contemporary classical music can be accessible to a wide audience. This stimulating biography discusses Ligeti within the context of the political and cultural history of postwar Europe, and places him firmly at the forefront of musical change and innovation over the past four decades.... Read More about the "Gyorgy Ligeti" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Phaidon Press Limited
Leonard Bernstein Description: This is an illustrated biography of the American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. The text, which places his work in the context of his times, is supplemented by essential reference material - classified list of works, bibliography and discography.... Read More about the "Leonard Bernstein" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Phaidon Press Limited
Maurice Ravel Description: The music of Maurice Ravel (1875 1937), from the monumental Le Tombeau de Couperin to the rousing Bolero, has maintained its ability to delight throughout the twentieth century. Although brought up in Paris, Ravel`s Basque ancestry gave him a regard for Spain and its music that informed several of his most famous pieces. Gerald Larner`s beautifully crafted biography examines both the music and the man, looking at his emotional preoccupations and their effect on his work. Full of fresh insights, this book will add to our understanding of an enigmatic and intensely private composer.... Read More about the "Maurice Ravel" on the The Nile Book Store Website

SANCTUARY PUBLISHING
On The Road With The Ramones Description: The Ramones` music has influenced nearly every power pop, punk, alternative, and metal band. Monte Melnik served as The Ramones road manager from their early New York club days in the 70s to their farewell gigs in 1996. Filled with memorabilia including photographs and interviews collected along the way, this is his view of life on the road with the band as babysitter to psychiatrist, booking agent to travel agent, paymaster to van driver.... Read More about the "On The Road With The Ramones" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Haus Publishing Ltd
Prokofiev Description: Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953) lived his life caught between East and West, old and new. He was born in Czarist Russia, and belonged to the avant-garde, but left to live abroad during the Revolution. He returned a decade later as a musical celebrity, influenced by modern Western music, but soon his relationship with the Soviet authorities deteriorated into condemnation and censorship. In spite of this, some Western critics have branded his music Socialist Realism and indeed the Soviets praised him for his collaborations with the filmmaker Sergey Eisenstein. Today his admirers all over the world celebrate his music, which includes his many piano works, his opera The Love for Three Oranges, his ballet music for Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella, and the musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf.... Read More about the "Prokofiev" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Phaidon Press Limited
Richard Strauss Description: The greatest and most popular German composer of the twentieth century, Richard Strauss (1864 1949) remains one of the most controversial figures in the history of music. Though he is now accepted as one of the finest of all orchestral composers, and his operas are the most subtly characterized since Mozart`s, his reputation remains dogged by charges of sensationalism, careerist opportunism and Nazi collaboration. This powerful study places Strauss`s life in the context of German history, reveals the paradoxes that lay beneath his flamboyant public persona and discusses his work in the light of the influences personal, artistic, literary and political that shaped it.... Read More about the "Richard Strauss" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Da Capo Press
The Dylan, Companion Description: To this day, wherever great rock music is being made, there is the shadow of Bob Dylan, said Bruce Springsteen at the induction of Dylan into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Or to quote John Rockwell, Anyone who didn`t live through the 60s simply cannot realize how important his albums seemed then; they defined a community.;Dylan is a musical, literary, political and religious icon whose lyrics and mystique have spawned countless articles and books. The Dylan Companion is a generous helping of the best, most pungent and most insightful commentary on Dylan from all phases of his career right up to the present: personal recollections and professional assessments from the likes of Ken Kesey, Greil Marcus, Joan Baez, Andrew Motion, Lester Bangs, Kurt Loder, Allen Ginsberg, Pauline Kael, Geoff Dyer, Simon Winchester and Robert Christgau - over 50 pieces celebrating the 60-year-old performer who somehow manages to stay forever young.... Read More about the "The Dylan, Companion" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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