(Unlocking the Masters). Beethoven's works for solo piano the sonatas, variations, and bagatelles and the five concertos for piano and orchestra stand at the heart of the repertory. Beethoven's Piano Music: A Listener's Guide, by Victor Lederer, will help the motivated reader understand this popular but often knotty music. The bulk of the text ......
Forty years ago one of the world's best-loved bands, The Faces, formed from the ashes of The Small Faces and the Jeff Beck Group, featuring a charismatic, raspy-voiced frontman in Rod Stewart. They offered an antidote to the more serious excesses of the seventies, being as devoted to the mayhem as they were to the music. This is their story.
Iconic American composer-bandmaster John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) led a disciplined group of devoted musicians on numerous American tours and around the world. Paul Bierley documents every aspect of the ''March King's'' band: its history, its star performers, its appearances on recordings and radio, and the problems members faced on their 1911 ......
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, in the enormous diversity of his activities, is arguably the most complete musician. Not only does he have a remarkable 300 commissioned concert works to his credit, he has also contrived to lead several completely different musical lives. This book studies this gifted musician.
Author Martin Roach reveals how the band members met, played their early gigs, financed their own early EPs and how, with four hit albums under their belt; they still continue to maintain a tight degree of control over their output.
This superb new collection of photographs shows a fascinating variety of blues, folk and rock performers as they appeared at events across North America during the second half of the 20th century.
Seven years after their unprecedented arrival in the UK, The Kings of Leon are finally making a name for themselves overseas. This biography of Kings of Leon presents their history.
The Story of the Guitars, the Music, and the Great Players
Rickenbacker is the guitar maker who brought the electric 12-string to market and has been responsible for the idea of what such a guitar should do. This book tells the story of those heady days in the 60s, of the competitors who tried and failed to match the sound, and of the instrument's production by Rickenbacker and use by modern guitarists.