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In 'The Private World of Leonard Bernstein', Leonard Bernstein, conductor, composer, virtuoso pianist is seen as only few have been privileged to see him - off stage among his family and friends, working playing, speculating about the future. Author John Gruen spent a summer in Italy with the vacationing Bernsteins, then observed the amazingly crowded routines of their life in… Read more about this item

Based on exclusive interviews, Celtic Women in Music profiles the careers of 30 artists. A short biography given on each artist along with two sections of color photographs. The contents provided by our photo. This book reveals Celtic culture in an extraordinary way.

Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz Publishing Company, 1928. Softcover. Card covers with vinyl spine. The Song and The Star - A Christmas Cantata for Church Choirs of Mixed Voices. Text by Herman Von Berge, music by Fred B Holton. Table of Contents list 14 songs as shown in photo. There are sixty-four printed pages of music with words. Separations exist… Read more about this item

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1983. In The Love You Make, Peter Brown and Steven Gaines have written the dramatic truth of the Fabulous Four from Liverpool. It is a remarkable insider's account of the single greatest entertainment phenomenon of the century: It is culled from exclusive sources, documents and interviews to which no one but Peter Brown has… Read more about this item

London: Dent, 1958. 328pp. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Series. A symposium on music from ancient times to the present day, by eighteen of the western world's leading musical scholars. Music and Western Man brings to the ordinary music lover critical appraisal of the many treasures in the twenty centuries of music in the life of western man. A bright… Read more about this item

Toronto: Boosey & Hawkes (Canada) Ltd, 1943. Stapled card covers. Boosey & Hawkes School Music Series No 3. Leger Lines. Treble and Bass Clefs, Notes and Spaces, Exercises and Review Tests. A bright clean book.. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Music Lessons + Music Text Book + Rudiments of Music + Music Exercises + Music Workbook + Boosey & Hawkes School… Read more about this item

New York: Random House Publishers, 1946. Foreword by Deems Taylor. Historical notes by John Tasker Howard. Arrangements by Ray Lev and Dorothy Berliner Cimmins. Illustrated by William Sharp. Here are fifty of Foster's best songs for singing and playing, tried and true favorites, melodies lovingly remembered by every American which belong forever to our national folklore.... 'My Old Kentucky… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. Book Club Edition. "Too Strong For Fantasy" - a personal record of music, literature and politics in America and Europe over half a century. This is a fascinating book, vivid, reflective, wide ranging, embracing New York in the early 1900's and Chechoslovakia in crisis after WWII...and much, much more. Red cloth boards, black… Read more about this item

New Jersey: Prentice-Hall This is the heart - warming story of Lawrence Welk's triumphant return to television and his wonderful relationship with his "Musical Family." Music is Welk's life. When ABC cancelled his show, he felt " just about as bad as a man can feel".... Anyone who reads this lively and moving sucess story will love and… Read more about this item

Los Angeles, California: Renaissance Books,, 2000. Featuring never-before-published interviews with those who knew her best, including Beatle Paul McCartney and Linda herself, "Linda McCartney: A Portrait" is an inside look at one of rock music's few enduring marriages and one of its most fascinating women. A section of photographs provided. This is a book for anyone who thinks… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow & Co. 1943 (1943) Victory Edition. If you are a music lover this book was written for you - to deepen and enlarge your pleasure in music. A lively, stimulating book presenting music as a living and growing art. The editor has compiled a veritable treasury of source material on almost every phase… Read more about this item

Oakville, Ontario, Canada: The Frederick Harris Music Co. Ltd (c. 1963) Stapled covers. A foreword by Dr. A. B. Lucus (Chairman of the Board) and Howard Munn (Principal).... "This book, published by the authority of the Board of Directors of the Western Ontario Conservatory of Music, has been compiled, edited, and arranged by the members of the Conservatory… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. BOMC Edition. The adored maestro of the piano at last tells the story of his life. Rubenstein brings us into the presence of the great, the near great, the once great, the teachers gentle or tyranical, the family, etc. Illustrated with 24 pages of photographs and mementos. Clean red cloth boards with gilt… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1979. A pictorial biography based on Benny Goodman's own archives. 212 illustrations. Benny Goodman is one of those rare personalities who has become a legend in his own time. His name and his clarinet will always be associated with the big band era. Black boards with gilt to spine and large artistic… Read more about this item

London: Augener, Ltd., 1903. Augener's Edition No. 9182 Forty-Second Impression. The contents include 21 chapters, Appendix A,"The Ecclesiastical Modes", Appendix B, " The Harmonic Series", Analytical Index, Musical Illustrations, index to music illustrations and 4 pages of book ads. A clean tight book with normal bottom edgewear.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1964. Shorter Edition. Donald Jay Grout.. Professor of Music, Cornell University.." A History of Western Music " Shorter Edition, provides a text of impeccable scholarship, modern in approach, beautifully written and proportioned for the stury of music history. This short edition is based on the author's full-length study of the development of western music… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. Sir Rudolf Bing, the renowned Gerneral Manager of the Metropolitan Opera for twenty-two years, reveals what running the country's greatest opera company entails. He generously shares his personal beliefs and opinions of the stars, designers, directors, managements, boards of directors and his priceless impressions of the opera - both yesterday and today...… Read more about this item

London: Werner Laurie, 1972. The author tells the stories of many famous ballets. In outlining the plot-sequence behind the stylised actions of the dancers, she explains the underlying symbolism in each ballet and shows how effective the creative combination of movement, grouping, decor and choreography can be. The book contains an index giving details of the source of each story… Read more about this item

Time-Life Records, 1978. (1978) Foreword by Johnny Simmen. Book VG. This is an anthology of biographies detailing the careers of 1,000 musicians whose names are part of Jazz History. All the musicians and vocalists given individual entries were born before 1920. Only musicians born or raised in the USA are included in this volume. Johnny Simmen writes " It… Read more about this item

New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1993. This book presents - a vision through photography that puts us in touch with all emotions chronicled in the music. Here are revealing photos of Roy Acuff, Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins, Loretta Lynn, Ronnie Milsap, Emmy Lou Harris, Kathy Mattea, Trisha Yearwood and many more of the artists who define country past, present… Read more about this item