《不朽的小提琴家》再现了历史上不朽小提琴家的魅力，简要而有趣地叙述其生活、个性与事业。作者就他们对作曲者、公众品味的影响以及演奏技巧的贡献等各个方面，讲述了这些小提琴家的特殊成就。 作者玛格丽特·坎贝尔参阅了大量的书信和私人文件，并且访问许多著名音乐家，很多人为《不朽的小提琴家》提供了从未发表过的回忆录和珍贵照片。 《不朽的小提琴家》是一本献给音乐会听众、唱片收藏者（有“唱片目录”）、弦乐演奏者和学生等所有爱好小提琴演奏艺术者的书。
The world of the fashionista is brought to vivid life with 101introductory lessons on such topics as how a designer anticipatescultural trends and "sees" the fashion consumer, the workings ofthe fashion calendar, the ways a designer collection is conceived,the manufacture of fabric, fashion illustration, and more. Illustrated in the distinctly unique packaged style of thebestselling101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, this newbook on fashion design will be a perfect book for any fashionschool wannabe, a recent graduate, or even a seasonedprofessional.
For almost half a century, Foxfire has brought the philosophyof simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teachingcreative self-sufficiency and preserving the stories, crafts, andcustoms of Appalachia. Inspiring and practical, this classicseries has become an American institution. The Foxfire 45th Anniversary Book continues the beloved traditionof celebrating a simpler life, this time with a focus onAppalachian music, folk legends, and a history full of outsizedpersonalities. We hear the encouraging life stories of banjoplayers, gospel singers, and bluegrass musicians who reminisceabout their first time playing at the Grand Ole Opry; we shiver atthe spine-tingling collection of tall tales, from ghosts born oflong-ago crimes to rumors of giant catfish that lurk at the bottomof lakes and quarries; we recollect the Farm Family Program thatsustained and educated Appalachian families for almost fifty years,through the Depression and beyond; and we learn the time-honoredskills of those who ca
This collection of Brahms' enchanting Hungarian Dances will thrill intermediate and advanced pianists. Based on Hungarian themes, this lively and popular set of 21 dance arrangements contains some of the Romantic classicist's most popular piano pieces in one low-priced edition.
Famed for his modern art and rendering of human, animal and still life compositions, this is a celebration of the works of Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero.
An influential early Romantic composer for piano, John Field (1782-1837) redefined the term "nocturne." Field's dreamy, poetic style exerted a lasting effect on such later composers as Chopin, Liszt, and Schumann. This new collection brings together the most popular and often performed of Field's nocturnes, along with a selection of his most important solo piano works.
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) is best-known for his "ready-mades"- such as the urinal, entitled "Fountain" and "signed" R. Mutt.This study tackles the enigma of this major 20th-century artist. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition ofthis title.
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) emerged from humble circumstances - reflected in his nickname, "the customs official". An employee in the Paris customs bureau, Rousseau was an autodidact who incrementally worked his way into a position among the artists who were renewing the art world at the turn of the century. It was a difficult journey - for years the art world laughed at the layman's flat, icon-like figures, simple landscapes and, in his late phase, exotic jungle scenes. However his "naive" compositions in fact became an emblem that piqued the interest of the avant-garde. Rousseau's jungle paintings consisted of ornamental variations of plant leaves, among which he set brilliantly coloured predators, natives and naked beauties. In so doing, the artist evinced intuitive principles of design and compositions, which subsequent avant-garde artists had to work out for themselves with great effort. Ultimately winning recognition as an uncompromising modernist, Rousseau inspired comparison with Derain, Cezanne, Matis
The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site stillknown as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sortflourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavour. Buttheir discreet trade is upset when two employees of the SplendourRefuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer SilvioLuparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceasedin flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death fromnatural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But InspectorSalvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise and as scathing tofools and villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is notready to close the case - even though he's being pressured byVigata's police chief, judge, and bishop. Picking his way through alabyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendettafirepower, and carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can berelied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of thematter.
Bringing to life the work of artists such QS Monet．Renoirand Pissarro．Impressionism lakes the reader back tonineteenth—cenlury Paris to explore one of the most influential arlmovements in the history of orA carefully chosen seleclion of manyof the period’S most enduring images sits side by side with somelesser—known，but equally impressive works to convey the spirit andpassion of the era．
In 1964, on the brink of the British Invasion, the musicbusiness in America shunned rock and roll. There was no rock press,no such thing as artist management -- literally no rock-and-rollbusiness. Today the industry will gross over $20 billion. How didthis change happen? From the moment Pete Seeger tried to cut thepower at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival debut of Bob Dylan'selectric band, rock's cultural influence and business potentialhave been grasped by a rare assortment of ambitious and farsightedmusicians and businessmen. Jon Landau took calls from legendaryproducer Jerry Wexler in his Brandeis dorm room and went on toorchestrate Bruce Springsteen's career. Albert Grossman's cold-eyedassessment of the financial power at his clients' fingertips madehim the first rock manager to blaze the trail that David Geffentransformed into a superhighway. Dylan's uncanny ability to keephis manipulation of the business separate from his art andreputation prefigured the savvy -- and increasingly cynical --professi
"The Inner Game of Music," the breakout hit that became astandard primer in the music world, has taught thousands ofmusicians--professionals and amateurs alike--how to overcomeself-consciousness and stage fright and to recapture a youthful,almost effortless capacity to learn. Now, in his follow-up book,"The Mastery of Music," Barry Green turns his expert hand to theartistic qualities that make an extraordinary musician. Cullingadvice from dozens of interviews with legends including Bell, Dave Brubeck, Jeffrey Kahane, Bobby McFerrin, ChristopherParkening, Doc Severinsen, Frederica von Stade, the Harlem BoysChoir, and the Turtle Island String Quartet, he reveals that it'snot enough to have a cerebral and emotional connection to thenotes. Green hows how musical excellence, exhibited by truevirtuosos, requires a mastery of ten unique qualities of the souland the human spirit, such as confidence, passion, discipline,creativity, and relaxed concentration, and he discusses specificways in which all musicians,
There are beautiful doodles, and there are fabulous doodles.This doodle book brings them into fashion! An ever-popular topicamong young girls, fashion continues to form our culture at large.Whether we design ourselves to fit in or stand out, this bookoffers over 100 pages full of creative prompts for innovativedesigns. Aspiring fashionistas—and anyone with a fascination forfabulous clothing and accessories—will be inspired to find theirown style and express it.
One name in the history of the 20th century art stands out over all others: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). As painter, graphic artist and sculptor, he displayed an inventive enterprise and innovative bravado that always kept him one step ahead of his contemporaries. As one of them, the painter Max Ernst, ruefully put it: "No one can touch Picasso. He is genius incarnate." The works selected here cover Picasso's entire output, from the less familiar to key masterpieces such as "Guernica", from the Blue and Rose Periods early in his career through his cubist and classicist phases and the formal experiments of the Thirties to his later involvement with politics in art.
An epic novel of love, loss and a family uprooted, set in the contrasting landscapes of war-torn Sri Lanka and immigrant London.
These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues—which grewout of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks—are an exchange betweentwo of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: DanielBarenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, andEdward W. Said, eminent literary critic and impassioned commentatoron the Middle East. Barenboim is an Argentinian-Israeli and Said aPalestinian-American; they are also close friends. As they range across music, literature, and society, they openup many fields of inquiry: the importance of a sense of place;music as a defiance of silence; the legacies of artists from Mozartand Beethoven to Dickens and Adorno; Wagner’s anti-Semitism; andthe need for “artistic solutions” to the predicament of the MiddleEast—something they both witnessed when they brought young Arab andIsraeli musicians together. Erudite, intimate, thoughtful andspontaneous, Parallels and Paradoxes is a virtuosiccollaboration.
