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This Was Toscanini

The Maestro, My Father, and Me

By: Samuel Antek,Lucy Antek Johnson

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This Was Toscanini

The Maestro, My Father, and Me

By: Samuel Antek,Lucy Antek Johnson

“This unique, doubly moving memoir unites an outstanding musician with his invaluable impressions of the world-famous maestro.” —Sybil Steinberg, Contributing Editor and Former Book Review Editor for Publishers Weekly Arturo Toscanini is widely considered the greatest conductor of the modern age and remains a towering figure in the world of classical music. His explosive passions, dynamic music making, and legendary leadership continue to inspire and influence today’s musicians while still captivating new generations of enthusiastic fans as well. This Was Toscanini is an intimate, firsthand, behind-the-scenes musical portrait of the Maestro, told from the unique perspective of first violinist Samuel Antek, who was fortunate to play under Toscanini’s baton for seventeen years in the famed NBC Symphony Orchestra. In this expanded second edition of This Was Toscanini: The Maestro, My Father, and Me, Samuel Antek’s reflections on playing with the Maestro gain sparkling new facets of insight from his daughter, Lucy Antek Johnson, as she enlightens readers with vivid recollections about her father and his most memorable musical partnership. With a foreword from acclaimed author and music historian Harvey Sachs and featuring Robert Hupka’s iconic photographs throughout, this shining new edition will bring back the wonder of Toscanini’s powerful style and his singular pursuit to make beautiful music. “After the recordings, this book will probably remain the most enduring and endearing monument to the art of Arturo Toscanini.” —The New York Times “This book will fascinate everyone interested not only in Toscanini but in symphonic music and music making in general.” —Harvey Sachs, author and music historian

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BrownBooks.ORM

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1612545416

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9781612545417

The Lonely Hearts Book Club

By: Lucy Gilmore

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The Lonely Hearts Book Club

By: Lucy Gilmore

A young librarian and an old curmudgeon forge the unlikeliest of friendships in this charming, feel-good novel about one misfit book club and the lives (and loves) it changed along the way. Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't show up one morning, she's instantly concerned. And then another day passes, and another. Anxious, Sloane tracks the old man down only to discover him all but bedridden...and desperately struggling to hide how happy he is to see her. Wanting to bring more cheer into Arthur's gloomy life, Sloane creates an impromptu book club. Slowly, the lonely misfits of their sleepy town begin to find each other, and in their book club, find the joy of unlikely friendship. Because as it turns out, everyone has a special book in their heart—and a reason to get lost (and eventually found) within the pages. Books have a way of bringing even the loneliest of souls together...

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406

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1728256232

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9781728256238

Sound Advice

The Ultimate Guide to a Healthy and Successful Career in Music

By: Rhian Jones,Lucy Heyman

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Sound Advice

The Ultimate Guide to a Healthy and Successful Career in Music

By: Rhian Jones,Lucy Heyman

Are you interested in learning how to cultivate sustainable success in the popular music industry whilst prioritising your health? If so, this book is for you.

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Shoreditch Press

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1838194924

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9781838194925

Suffragist Artists in Partnership

Gender, Word and Image

By: Lucy Ella Rose

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Suffragist Artists in Partnership

Gender, Word and Image

By: Lucy Ella Rose

This is the first book dedicated to examining the marital relationships of Mary and George Watts and Evelyn and William De Morgan as creative partnerships. The study demonstrates how they worked, individually and together, to support greater gender equality and female liberation in the nineteenth century. The author traces their relationship to early and more recent feminism, reclaiming them as influential early feminists and reading their works from twentieth-century theoretical perspectives. By focusing on neglected female figures in creative partnerships, the book challenges longstanding perceptions of them as the subordinate wives of famous Victorian artists and of their marriages as representatives of the traditional gender binary. This is also the first academic critical study of Mary Watts?s recently published diaries, Evelyn De Morgan?s unpublished writings and other previously unexplored archival material by the Wattses and the De Morgans.

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272

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474421466

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9781474421461

Baptism of Fire

By: Lucy Floyd

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Baptism of Fire

By: Lucy Floyd

BAPTISM OF FIRE is a turbulent family drama and highly charged love story set in Cuba in 1956-1960 against the backdrop of Fidel Castro's revolution.

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eBook Partnership

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1783013060

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9781783013067

The Hymn Writers of Early Pennsylvania

By: Lucy E. Carroll

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The Hymn Writers of Early Pennsylvania

By: Lucy E. Carroll

William Penn's promise of religious freedom brought many diverse religious groups to Pennsylvania in the 17th and 18th centuries. Each brought pre-existing hymns and hymn tunes, but many also wrote original texts and music. This book examines the hymns of the 1694 Wissahickon settlement under Johannes Kelpius, the 18th century Ephrata Cloister of Conrad Beissel, and the hymn life of the Bethlehem Moravian Unitas Fratrum. Among the later writers of hymn text or music selected for this study are William Kirkpatrick, John Wyeth, William Gustavus Fischer, Francis Hopkinson, Eleanor C. Donnelly, and many more. Sample texts are included for many hymns, and six musical scores are reproduced. Of special interest are the earliest texts and music from the Wissahickon and Ephrata communities. Pennsylvania's hymn background is unique and compelling. The stories of the writers and their hymns should appeal to anyone interested in hymns, theology, music, or American history. Dr. Lucy E. Carroll is currently organist and choir director at the Carmelite Monastery in Philadelphia, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Westminster Choir College in Princeton NJ. She was appointed Scholar in Residence by the PHMC for the Ephrata Cloister site, and she has served as a PHC Commonwealth Speaker. She is Research Chair for the Kelpius Society of Philadelphia. Her articles on music have appeared in many journals and periodicals, and her Churchmouse Squeaks cartoons appear monthly in the Adoremus Bulletin. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Dr. Carroll has served as organist, conductor, theatre director, educator, music coordinator, clinician and guest speaker. She chaired the music segment of the 1992 International Conference on Arts and Communication at St. John's College, Cambridge, England and was awarded the International Order of Merit.

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Xulon Press

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1606475207

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9781606475201

ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS

Anne Shirley Series

By: Lucy Maud Montgomery

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ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS

Anne Shirley Series

By: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne's House of Dreams is a novel by Maud Montgomery, first published in 1917. The novel is from a series of books written primarily for girls and young women, about a young girl named Anne Shirley. It follow the course of Anne's life. It is set principally on Canada's Prince Edward Island and chronicles Anne's early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 – 1942), was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays.

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e-artnow

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8027233445

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9788027233441

Lighting the Fuse

Stories from Britain’s first female bomb disposal expert

By: Lucy Lewis

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Lighting the Fuse

Stories from Britain’s first female bomb disposal expert

By: Lucy Lewis

Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it. In this extraordinary memoir, Lucy Lewis reveals the hidden world of bomb disposal training and how she came to be the UK's first female bomb disposal expert. From joining Sandhurst to rushing to her first bomb disposal call-out, Lucy's story is full of high stakes and tense situations that for most of us, are beyond comprehension. Lucy's story however is also a deeply inspirational one - joining the military in the 1980s just as women were taking on more dangerous roles, Lucy's every move was watched and scrutinised. This didn't hold her back however, and this is how she broke through the ceiling, fought against sexism and achieved something no woman had ever done before. Lighting the Fuse is an eye-opening memoir, that reveals the hidden world of being a woman in the military and how a young woman with an ordinary background, made history - not just once, but twice.

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196

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Trapeze

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1841883956

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9781841883953

Transdisciplinary Beckett

By: Lucy Jeffery

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Transdisciplinary Beckett

By: Lucy Jeffery

This is the first monograph to analyse Beckett’s use of the visual arts, music, and broadcasting media through a transdisciplinary approach. It considers how Beckett’s complex and varied use of art, music, and media in a selection of his novels, radio plays, teleplays, and later short prose informs his creative process. Investigating specific instances where Beckett’s writing adopts musical or visual structures, Lucy Jeffery identifies instances of Beckett’s transdisciplinarity and considers how this approach to writing facilitates ways of expressing familiar Beckettian themes of abstraction, ambiguity, longing, and endlessness. With case studies spanning forty years, she evaluates Beckett’s stylistic shifts in relation to the cultural context, particularly the technological advancements and artistic movements, during which they were written. With new examples from Beckett’s notebooks, critical essays, and letters, Transdisciplinary Beckett evidences how the drastic changes that took place in the visual arts and in musical composition influenced Beckett and, in turn, were influenced by him. Transdisciplinary Beckett situates Beckett as a key figure not just in the literary marketplace but also in the fields of music, art, and broadcasting.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3838215842

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9783838215846

ANNE OF AVONLEA (Green Gables Series)

By: Lucy Maud Montgomery

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ANNE OF AVONLEA (Green Gables Series)

By: Lucy Maud Montgomery

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Anne Shirley starts her first term teaching at the Avonlea School, although she still continues her own studies at home. She now takes her place among the "important" and "grown up" people of Avonlea society, as its only schoolteacher. Anne is also a founding member of the Avonlea Village Improvement Society which tries to improve the Avonlea landscape.

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8027245605

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9788027245604

Shadows on My Heart

The Civil War Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck of Virginia

By: Lucy Rebecca Buck

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Shadows on My Heart

The Civil War Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck of Virginia

By: Lucy Rebecca Buck

When the Civil War began in 1861, Lucy Rebecca Buck was the eighteen-year-old daughter of a prosperous planter living on her family's plantation in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. On Christmas Day of that year Buck began the diary that she would keep for the duration of the war, during which time troops were quartered in her home and battles were literally waged in her front yard. The extraordinary chronicle mirrors the experience of many women torn between loyalty to the Confederate cause and dissatisfaction with the unrealistic ideology of white southern womanhood. In the environment of war, these women could not feign weakness, could not shrink from public gaze, and could not assume the presence of protection that was supposedly their right. This radical disjuncture, coming as it did during a period of extreme deprivation and loss, caused Buck and other so-called southern belles to question the very ideology with which they had been raised, often between the pages of private diaries. In powerful, unsentimental language, Buck's diary reveals her anger and ambivalence about the challenges thrust upon her after upheaval of her self, her family, and the world as she knew it. This document provides an extraordinary glimpse into the "shadows on the heart" of both Lucy Buck and the American South.

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414

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University of Georgia Press

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0820318523

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9780820318523

Convicts in the Colonies

Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia

By: Lucy Williams

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Convicts in the Colonies

Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia

By: Lucy Williams

“A book that looks deeply into the lives of some of the convicts who were sentenced in court to be transported to Botany Bay.” —Pirates and Privateers In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported beyond the seas. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empires most remote colony: Australia. Through vivid real-life case studies and famous tales of the exceptional and extraordinary, Convicts in the Colonies narrates the history of convict transportation to Australia—from the first to the final fleet. Using the latest original research, Convicts in the Colonies reveals a fascinating century-long history of British convicts unlike any other. Covering everything from crime and sentencing in Britain and the perilous voyage to Australia, to life in each of the three main penal colonies—New South Wales, Van Diemen’s Land, and Western Australia—this book charts the lives and experiences of the men and women who crossed the world and underwent one of the most extraordinary punishments in history. “An easily read, fascinating history, telling the tales of the ‘recidivist’ convicts in the 18th and 19th centuries.” —The Essex Family Historian

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286

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Casemate Publishers

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1526718391

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9781526718396

Dadas on Art

Tzara, Arp, Duchamp and Others

By: Lucy R. Lippard

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Dadas on Art

Tzara, Arp, Duchamp and Others

By: Lucy R. Lippard

A select anthology of the Dada movement focusing mainly on visual artists features prose, poetry, and polemics from such notables as Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Tristan Tzara, Hanna Hèoch, George Grosz, and Jean Cocteau.

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Courier Corporation

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0486456994

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9780486456997

Heresy and Heretics in the Thirteenth Century

The Textual Representations

By: Lucy J. Sackville

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Heresy and Heretics in the Thirteenth Century

The Textual Representations

By: Lucy J. Sackville

The first book to deal with all the principal treatments of heresy and anti-heretical writings during their heyday in the thirteenth century. Heresy is always relative; the traces that it leaves to us are distorted and one-sided. In the last few decades, historians have responded to these problems by developing increasingly sophisticated methodologies that help to unravel and illuminate the tangled layers from which the texts that describe heresy are built, but in the process have made our reading of heresy fractured and disconnected. Heresy and Heretics seeks to redress this by reading the different types of anti-heretical writing as part of a wider, connected tradition, considering all the principal orthodox treatments of heresy for the first time. Drawn from the mid-thirteenth century, a time when both medieval heresy and the church's response to it were at their zenith, they describe a spectrum of material that ranges from the theological arguments of some of the greatest thinkers of the age to the homely sermons of the wanderingpreachers. In considering the whole scope of anti-heretical writing from this period, it becomes apparent that, far from being an artificial construct isolated from reality, the church's treatment of heresy in fact had a far morecomplex relationship with its subject matter. Dr L.J. Sackville teaches in the Department of History, University of York.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1903153565

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9781903153567

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This Was Toscanini

This Was Toscanini

The Lonely Hearts Book Club

The Lonely Hearts Book Club

Sound Advice

Sound Advice

Suffragist Artists in Partnership

Suffragist Artists in Partnership

Baptism of Fire

Baptism of Fire

The Hymn Writers of Early Pennsylvania

The Hymn Writers of Early Pennsylvania

ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS

ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS

Lighting the Fuse

Lighting the Fuse

Transdisciplinary Beckett

Transdisciplinary Beckett

ANNE OF AVONLEA (Green Gables Series)

ANNE OF AVONLEA (Green Gables Series)

Shadows on My Heart

Shadows on My Heart

Convicts in the Colonies

Convicts in the Colonies

Dadas on Art

Dadas on Art

Heresy and Heretics in the Thirteenth Century

Heresy and Heretics in the Thirteenth Century

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