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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.
According to Sacheverell Sitwell in his acclaimed biography of Liszt, this collection of 12 little pieces attest to the supreme skill of a composer attuned "to the smaller perfections and to the poetry of sentiment." Reproduced from an authoritative edition, Liszt's four-hand arrangement of these holiday pieces will make a superb addition to any pianist's repertoire of Romantic music.
Start with a healthy aerobic workout. Add the fun of dancing.Spice things up with exotic music, the twirl of silk, and therhythmic clapping of finger cymbals. Top it off with a path torediscovering one's feminine nature and creative spirit, and youhave Belly Dancing for Fitness.Many women find belly dancing themost enjoyable way to get in shape while simultaneously getting intouch with their bodies and tapping their spirituality. BellyDancing for Fitness shows how this alternative dance-exercise canbe as easy and fulfilling as yoga. Belly dancing includes floorgymnastics, back bends, poses, and stretches. The book alsooutlines how to synchronize one's breathing and coordinate the mindand body. Drawing from her years of experience as a world-famousteacher and performer, the author discusses the history and cultureof belly dancing. She then carefully leads the reader through eachskill level of this increasingly popular exercise art form.
Plug your music career into the lucrative new income streamsof the digital marketplace Record deals are so twentieth century. Today, music licensing isthe fastest route to widespread exposure and a steady income.Creators of films, television shows, commercials, video games,ringtones, podcasts and other digital-age media hunger for musicperfectly suited to their projects—providing endless, lucrativeopportunities for savvy musicians. Whether you’re an unknowncomposer, an up-and-coming songwriter, an independent-labelperformer, or a big label star, there’s a place for you in thisfast-growing field—as long as you learn to master thegame. How does music licensing work? Where are the most abundant andrewarding opportunities? Find the answers in this authoritative,up-to-the-moment overview of one of the most effective ways tomarket your talent. It’s all here: ul li The key players in the music licensingbusiness and the best ways to make contacts and bring your music totheir atte
《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。
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.
A whole book of poems about clothing? Are we putting you on? On the contrary, poets and artists throughout the centuries have found inspiration in all kinds of garments, from farmers' overalls to the robes of geishas, using them to explore the themes of identity, sensuality, personal history, and craft. A collection of words and images devoted to what we wear, Clotheslines brings together fifty poems with a rich assortment of paintings, drawings, and photographs that complement them. Edited by Stan Tymorek, this unusual anthology will evoke memories and associations in anyone who has ever had a beloved pair of jeans or a favorite little black dress. The poems-by Elizabeth Bishop, BlaiseCendrars, Robert Creeley, Pablo Neruda, Dorothy Parker, Calvin Trillin, and John Updike, among others - are paired with works by diverse artists such as Romare Bearden, Joseph Cornell, Jim Dine, Sonia Delaunay, Max Ernst, John Singer Sargent, Egon Schiele, and Andy Warhol. Unexpected pairings of poetry and art
It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behindthe most-enduring works of literature in the English language,perhaps in any language. Who was the man behind Hamlet? Whatpassion inspired the sonnets, whose words were so powerful that“not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlivethis powerful rhyme"? In Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom, criticallyacclaimed historian Charles Beauclerk pulls off an astounding feat,humanizing the Bard who for centuries has remained beyond ourgrasp. Beauclerk has spent more than two decades researching theauthorship question, and if the plays were discovered today, heargues, we would see them for what they are--shocking politicalworks written by a court insider, someone with the monarch'sindulgence, shielded from repression in an unstable time of armadaand reformation. But the author's identity was quickly swept underthe rug after his death. The official history--of an uneducatedmerchant writing in near obscurity, and of a virginal queen ma
Forty-one of the Russian master’s greatest works for solo piano, including the immensely popular C-sharp minor, G-minor, and B-minor preludes, in authoritative editions.
"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,
Born in Hawaii and raised in Australia, Nicole Kidman blossomed from a gawky young-ster into an elegant beauty whose heart was set on becoming an actress. Relying on the grit and dedication passed on to her by her activist parents, Nicole quickly became an award-winning ingenue. Her American debut in the acclaimed thriller Dead Calm grabbed the attention of movie audiences--and of Tom Cruise, who asked that Nicole audition for his car-racing epic,Days of Thunder. Tom, not yet divorced from actress Mimi Rogers, was immediately taken with the gorgeous newcomer. Suddenly, Tom and Nicole were everywhere--and the paparazzi were never far behind. By the early 1990s, Tom and Nicole had married, and their private relationship was more intense than anything they portrayed on the screen. It also brought its share of problems. Although Nicole's performances garnered exceptional reviews, many continued to see her simply as Mrs. Tom Cruise. Then came the movie--Stanley Kubrick's controversial Eyes Wide Shut--that
Nowadays there is hardly an interior design publication which does not contain at least one article on Feng Shui, the one-thousand-year-old Chinese tradition of the harmonious arrangement of sacred buildings, graves, palaces and streets. The universal value systems of Buddhism and Zen and the principles these involve, such as an affinity with nature and life energy, have left a deep impression on Western lifestyle and have had an important influence on today's trends in design and architecture. This volume attempts, with its selection of particularly interesting and concise examples, to present the inexhaustible variety of Asian living and lifestyles.
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.
Internotionol Arts Crofts is o celebrotion of the designmovement thor storted in Britoin ond spreod around the world ot theend of the nineteenth centurg, Oepicting both well-known ond unusuo oft ondortefocts from this most foscinoting of eros, this book provides oweolth of informotion obout the ,lives ond times of the designers,orchitects nnd nrtists whn fronted them.
As a tribute to the gardening of a unique region this volumeportrays 32 of the most celebrated gardens of the American South,ranging from the grand gardens of the Antebellum Plantations tostrikingly simple, creative plantings of the modern era. Drawingfrom primary sources as well as first-hand impressions of eachgarden featured, the author reveals the special beauty of southerngardens along with the personalities of their gardeners. Thisvolume, illustrated with 200 specially commissioned photographs incolour and many vintage prints, surveys the southern garden from1750 to the present. It includes early gardeners who introduced newplants and garden designs to the early coastal plantations;homesteaders who moved inland as far west as Tennessee and plantedsmall, practical gardens; industrialists who used new money tobuild large formal gardens, such as the Vanderbilt country estatein Asheville, North Carolina; and, finally, 20th-centuryindividuals whose rustic getaways consist of fantastic countrygrounds o
In terms of his influence and the frequency with which his works are performed, Stravinsky stands preeminent among 20th-century composers. Containing all of the music from the original 1911 version, this edition presents Stravinsky's popular ballet in a reduction for solo piano. Ideal for rehearsal or performance, it also offers translated stage directions.
Swirling with gargoyles, devils, dragons, griffins, and other images that haunt both dreams and nightmares, this otherworldly assortment features illustrations from a rare 19th-century volume. Images include cartouches, frames, doors, trophies, cabinets, friezes for textiles and wallpaper, decorative scutcheons, stone balustrades, arabesques, roof cornices, and much more.
