The New York Times Essential Library: Classical Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New York Times Essential Library: Classical Music write by Allan Kozinn. This book was released on 2004-08-02. The New York Times Essential Library: Classical Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kozinn's essays on the most dazzling recordings available provide both practical guidance for building a library and insight into the transcendent power of classical music."--BOOK JACKET.
The New York Times Essential Library: Opera
The New York Times Essential Library: Opera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New York Times Essential Library: Opera write by Anthony Tommasini. This book was released on 2004-11. The New York Times Essential Library: Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An insightful, provocative selection of the best opera performances, chosen by The New York Times's chief classical music critic in one hundred original essays Opera intertwines the drama of the theater with the powerful emotionality of music. In this magical and illuminating guide to the best opera recordings, Anthony Tommasini delves into the ways story and music interweave to create the subtle but telling moments that move us. Tommasini brings to life the rich history of opera performance and the singers and conductors who, over the past century, have come to own the music. He chooses masterworks, such as Arturo Toscanini's La Boheme, captured for posterity fifty years after he conducted the opera's 1896 premiere for Puccini, and Leontyne Price's Leonora in Il Trovatore, an encapsulation of the ideal Verdi soprano. For aficionados and newcomers alike, Tommasini is the perfect guide to the passions and playfulness of the opera.
The Indispensable Composers
The Indispensable Composers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Indispensable Composers write by Anthony Tommasini. This book was released on 2018. The Indispensable Composers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The chief classical music critic of "The New York Times" explores the concept of greatness in relation to composers, considering elements of biography, influence, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time.
The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz
The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz write by Ben Ratliff. This book was released on 2002-11-06. The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers an informed collector's guide to one hundred top recorded works of jazz, profiling each piece in a context of its importance to the development of the form.
The Violin Conspiracy
The Violin Conspiracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Violin Conspiracy write by Brendan Slocumb. This book was released on 2022-02-01. The Violin Conspiracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world. “I loved The Violin Conspiracy for exactly the same reasons I loved The Queen’s Gambit: a surprising, beautifully rendered underdog hero I cared about deeply and a fascinating, cutthroat world I knew nothing about—in this case, classical music.” —Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and Hour of the Witch Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music. When he discovers that his beat-up, family fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, all his dreams suddenly seem within reach, and together, Ray and his violin take the world by storm. But on the eve of the renowned and cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition—the Olympics of classical music—the violin is stolen, a ransom note for five million dollars left in its place. Without it, Ray feels like he's lost a piece of himself. As the competition approaches, Ray must not only reclaim his precious violin, but prove to himself—and the world—that no matter the outcome, there has always been a truly great musician within him.
