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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A definitive exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, "Hallelujah." Approved for production by Leonard Cohen just before his 80th birthday in 2014, the film accesses a wealth of never-before-seen archival materials from the Cohen Trust including Cohen's notebooks, journals and photographs, performance footage, and extremely rare audio recordings and interviews.
62) Song of love
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The music, composed long ago, still speaks to us. It reaches out to tell us of profound struggles and great genius, of aching setbacks and glorious triumphs, of three people whose names, like their music, echo across the years: Clara Wieck, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. The intertwined lives of the three musical legends form a sumptuously produced and skillfully played biopic set to 11 musical pieces that include Schumann's poignant Arabeske,...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Juan Garcia Esquivel was born in Mexico and grew up to the sounds of mariachi bands. He loved music and became a musical explorer. Defying convention, he created music that made people laugh and planted images in their minds. Juan's space-age lounge music popular in the fifties and sixties has found a new generation of listeners.
64) Duke Ellington
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Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the internationally acclaimed musician and composer who helped popularize jazz music.
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Language
English
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"A struggling composer senses a chance to get back on track and rekindle an old flame-even if it means hiding the truth of his failures-in this charming romance inspired by a historical figure from the bestselling author of Freedom's Song"--
Four years after leaving town to make a name for himself as a composer, Gilbert Baty has returned temporarily to Falke, Kansas. Now, he's trying to keep everyone from learning the truth about his disastrous years...
Author
Language
English
Description
Through the years of success in Hollywood composing music for the world's most lauded films, Chris always promised his wife they would return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now, after his wife's death, Chris feels he must not forget his promise. Back in the Dales, he buys Kilnsgate House, an old mansion deep in the country that will allow him the space to come to terms with his grief and the quiet to allow him to compose his piano sonata. He then...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Violeta went to heaven tells the story of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, tracing her evolution from impoverished child to international sensation and Chile's national hero, while capturing the swirling intensity of her inner contradictions, fallibilities, and passions. From the marquee that she built in Santiago, Chile, Violeta Parra is visited by people who shaped her life. We gradually find out her secrets, fears, frustrations...
69) Meredith Monk
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, filmmaker, and director/choreographer. This tape includes interviews and excerpts from performance. A pioneer in what is now called "extended vocal technique" and "interdisciplinary performance," Ms. Monk has created more than 80 works of music, theater, dance, and film. A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she has been acclaimed by audiences and critics as a major force in the performing arts. "When...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The sensual nature of sound" portrays these New York based composer/performers in terms of their musical lives. Although all four women are pioneers in American music, each composer pursues a distinct direction of her own. Since the early 1980s, Laurie Anderson has used music and performance as the foundation for her multi-media stage shows which have since become her trademark. Cuban born Tania Leon composes orchestral music that is an intricate...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Discover the origins of megastars like Garth Brooks and Taylor Swift while following emerging singer-songwriters as they chase their dreams inside The Bluebird Cafe, Nashville's accidental landmark that has altered the course of music history. It's 35 year history is revealed through never-before-told stories from those that have worked, played, been discovered, and helped preserve this unassuming strip-mall haunt that is the bedrock of American songwriting....
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The small town of Patience needs a financial boost. Temporary librarian and aspiring film-score composer Jane Wagner's plan? Invite movie star Nick Haddon to the town's harvest festival and stand back for the tourist surge. No one thought he'd say yes--much less that he'd bring a documentary crew to stream his visit. Given Nick's affinity for trouble, his reputation and films are tanking. Patience is the perfect stopover on a journey of self-improvement...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
American composers have long struggled against the momentum of the Western European classical tradition and the prestige it has held in America's cultural life. "I did not want to have any stricture at all, I wanted to be completely free." So spoke Harry Partch, describing not only his own path, but also that of two other influential American composers: Lou Harrison and Terry Riley. They were attracted to musical ideas and sounds outside of the surrounding...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In these interviews collected throughout his fabled career--including his first, when he was sixteen, as well as his last, decades later--David Bowie discusses his childhood in the rough streets of South London, songwriting, his problems with drug abuse, the influence of Andy Warhol, sexuality, his movies, fashion, working with Brian Eno, his friendship with John Lennon, and more. Ever articulate, with a wicked wit always at hand, Bowie shows here...
75) Amadeus
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When Mozart arrives at the court of Emperor Joseph II, court composer Antonio Salieri is horrified to discover that the godlike musical gifts he desires himself have been bestowed on a bawdy joker. Mad with envy, he plots to destroy Mozart by any means.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as it unfolds the story of a remarkable rise to stardom and an unparalleled artistic path. Tracing Bowie's life from the English suburbs to London to New...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Once more with feeling: When Brandon Carstairs walked out on her five years ago, Raven Williams had been devastated. Now here he was, offering her the professional opportunity of a lifetime--an offer she couldn't refuse. Despite the undeniable heat between them, Raven vowed that once burned, twice shy. Cool, collected, she was going to be an icy professional. But when the sparks start flying, it's hard not to melt.
Reflections: A lifetime spent pursuing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"'About this Book' In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood in its vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. In the book, Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he develops his artistic soul over the course of the decade and comes into...
79) Lightfoot
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, examining how his success as a folk-pop artist in the 1960s and '70s affected his personal life -- including his troubled relationships, his battle with alcohol and his near-death experiences --and the extraordinary drive and tenacity that pulled him through it all. -- Adapted from Amazon.com summary.
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English
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Lin-Manuel Miranda gives readers an extraordinary inside look at "In the Heights," his breakout Broadway debut, written with Quiara Alegría Hudes, soon to be a Hollywood blockbuster. Miranda offers untold stories, perceptive essays, and the lyrics to his songs. Features newly commissioned portraits and never-before-seen photos from backstage, the movie set, and productions around the world.
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