A pivotal twentieth-century composer, Samuel Barber earned a long list of honors and accolades that included two Pulitzer Prizes for Music and the public support of conductors like Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitzky, and Leonard Bernstein. Barber's works have since become standard concert repertoire and continue to flourish across high art and ......
Fusing blues, jazz and psychedelia with an outrageous personal style, Hendrix is still revered as the most important instrumentalist in rock history. Capturing the essence of Hendrix's intense and tragic life, the author covers Hendrix's life from his boyhood to the legacy he left behind.
Valeria Z. Nollan's biography of perhaps the finest pianist of the twentieth century plunges readers into Rachmaninoff's complex inner world. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cross Rhythms of the Soul is the first biography of Rachmaninoff in English that presents him in the fullness of his Russian identity. As someone whose own life in Russian emigration ran ......
This book presents new information about Rachmaninoff accessed from unique sources previously unavailable in English. From the extraordinary women who inspired him, to his humanitarian work, to his religion, Nollan interweaves Rachmaninoff's personal struggles and triumphs into his concert career.
A Biography of Martin Sharp as told to Lowell Tarling
In this second of two volumes, Lowell Tarling offers us a way into the enigmatic and reclusive artist, through extensive interviews with Sharp and his trusted friends, touching on the many dramas of life at Sharp's home studio, Wirian; his productions and search for meaning with regard to the Luna Park Fire; his spiritual search and death in 2013.
Lowell Tarling recorded Martin Sharp's life, and his effect on his friends, over twenty years. Now two volumes in one, in advance of the film of these books - GHOST TRAIN... Fully illustrated with a cast of characters including Brett Whiteley, Eric Clapton, Abe Saffron… As Sharp has said: “Like the Ancient Mariner it’s also a ghastly tale. I could ......
Shatner takes a comprehensive look at this singular performer, using archival sources and information culled from interviews with friends and colleagues to transport readers through William Shatner's remarkably bumpy career: his spectacular failures and triumphs, tragedies, and, ultimately, the resilience Shatner has shown, time and again, in the ......
