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Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life by Alec Wilder (Eastman Studies in Music) (Eastman Studies in Music) Alec Wilder
Book DescriptionLetters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life, by Alec Wilder, in a new, annotated edition with introduction and supplementary material by David Demsey, foreword by jazz pianist Marian McPartland, and photographs by Louis Ouzer. Alec Wilder is a rare example of a composer who established a reputation both as a prolific composer of concertos, sonatas, and operas, and as a popular songwriter (including the hit "I'll Be Around"). He was fearsomely articulate and had a wide and varied circle of friends ranging from Graham Greene to Frank Sinatra and Stan Getz. Letters I Never Mailed, hailed at its first publication (in 1975, by Little, Brown), tells the story of Wilder's musical and personal life through unsent "letters" addressed to various friends. In it, he shares his insights -- and sometimes salty opinions -- on composing, musical life, and the tension between art and commercialism. This new, scholarly edition leaves Wilder's original text intact but decodes the mysteries......
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Lucky Child : A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind Loung Ung
Book Description When Loung Ung came to America in 1980 as a ten-year-old Cambodian refugee, she had already survived years of hunger, violence, and loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a story she told in her critically acclaimed bestseller, First They Killed My Father . Now, in Lucky Child , Ung writes of assimilation and, in alternating chapters, gives voice to a genocide survivor she left behind in rural Cambodia, her older sister Chou. Loung was the lucky child, the sibling Eldest Brother chose to take with him to America. The youngest and the scrappiest, she was the one he believed had the best chance of making it. Just two years apart, Chou and Loung had bonded deeply over the deaths of their parents and sisters. As they stood holding hands in their dusty village while the extended family gathered to say good-bye, they never imagined that fifteen years would pass before they would be reunited again. With candor and enormous flair, Ung......
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ChiRunning Danny Dreyer
Fireside. More than 24 million people run in the United States alone, but 65 percent will have to stop at least once this year because of injury. Still others will choose to run through the pain. But in this groundbreaking book, ultramarathonerDanny Dreyer teaches us the running technique he created to heal and prevent injuries and also to run faster, farther, and with much less effort at any age. ChiRunning employs the deep power reserves in the core muscles of the trunk, an approach thatgrows out of such disciplines as yoga, Pilates, and t'ai chi. This excellent step-by-step program offers training principles and is easily learned. Dramatically reduce your potential for injury Make knee pain and shin splints a thing of the past Greatly reduce post-run recovery time Create a safe and effective training program Make running any distance enjoyable whether you're a beginning runner or a seasoned competitor...
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А. С. Макаренко. Собрание сочинений в пяти томах. Том 4 А. С. Макаренко
Правда, Огонек. Библиотека отечественной классики. Четвертый том составила "Книга для родителей" и рассказы....
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Воспоминания о русском доме. Адольф Бродский, Петр Чайковский, Эдвард Григ в мемуарах, дневниках, письмах Анна Бродская (Скадовская)
Коктебель. Образы былого. Основу книги составили воспоминания Анны Львовны Бродской (Скадовской), жены скрипача. Опубликованные на английском в 1904 году в Манчестере, они впервые печатаются на русском языке. В книге собраны уникальные материалы, которые большей частью впервые представлены русскому читателю. Среди них - путевой дневник и письма Антонины Скадовской, племянницы Бродского, рассказывающие о поездке к Григам в Норвегию; фрагменты писем и дневников Эдварда Грига и его супруги. Особое место занимают документы из архива Дома-музея П.И.Чайковского в Клину. Впервые в полном объеме публикуется переписка Адольфа и Анны Бродских с П.И.Чайковским и его братом Модестом....
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