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Notes of a piano tuner
By Denele Pitts Campbell. 1997
Tuning pianos provides the author opportunity to visit homes, churches, and music halls where she catches glimpses of the players'…
various lifestyles. Campbell describes her experiences and also comments on the countryside of the Arkansas Ozarks she traverses to do her work. 1997.Northern voices: Inuit writing in English
By Penny Petrone. 1988
The Inuit of northern Canada have a rich oral historic tradition in their own language and a more recent tradition…
of written English. This collection includes legends, poetry, interviews, letters, essays, speeches and fiction. 1988.North spirit: travels among the Cree and Ojibway nations
By Paulette Jiles. 1995
Paulette Jiles first went to northern Ontario as a journalist for the CBC in 1974. Living and working with the…
Cree and Ojibway people of the north, she writes about the introduction of new technologies and communications systems, and their clash with traditional native culture, during her seven years there. 1995.Colette Boky, le chant d'une femme: essai biographique (Chanson/musique)
By Colette Boky, Mireille Barrière. 2008
Colette Boky nous entretient de ses relations avec ses collègues, de sa conception des principaux rôles qu'elle a incarnés, de…
ses prestations devant maints personnages célèbres. Mais, plus encore, ces pages tracent le portrait d'une femme résolue, fonceuse, au franc parler, qui ne craint pas de mettre sa réputation au service de causes qui lui tiennent à coeur. Elle appuiera activement l'option du oui lors du référendum de 1980 et s'engagera dans la relance de l'opéra à Montréal et au Québec. Faisant fi des tabous, elle acceptera de tourner une scène de nu dans un filmopéra, au moment où le théâtre lyrique était encore très sage. Cet ouvrage fera aussi mieux connaître au public la femme derrière la diva, une mère affectueuse et une grand-maman gâteau, sans oublier le roman d'amour qu'elle vit avec le comédien et metteur en scène Jacques Létourneau depuis trente-cinq ans. 2008.Neil Young (Music makers)
By Alexis Petridis. 2000
This text provides a concise and well-researched view into the career of this unique rock 'n' roll icon. The author…
includes full biographical information and a comprehensive discography, and explores the influence of Young on a huge range of artists, from Sonic Youth and Nirvana to Ron Sexsmith. 2000.My conversations with Canadians (Essais ; #no. 4)
By Lee Maracle. 2017
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one…
she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions, which touch upon subjects such as citizenship, segregation, labour, law, prejudice and reconciliation (to name a few), are the heart of "My Conversations with Canadians". In prose essays that are both conversational and direct, Maracle seeks not to provide any answers to these questions she has lived with for so long. Rather, she thinks through each one using a multitude of experiences she's had as a Canadian, a First Nations leader, a woman and mother and grandmother over the course of her life. Presents a tour de force exploration into the writer's own history and a re-imagining of the future of our nation. Bestseller. 2017. Uniform title: Essays.Follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty…
other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned to the family. Matthews takes us through this astonishing set of events from multiple perspectives, exploring community and museum viewpoints, visiting the ceremonial group leader in Wisconsin, and finally looking back from the point of view of the drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself. Winner of the 2017 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction. 2016.Nat King Cole
By James Haskins, Kathleen Benson. 1984
Neil and me
By Scott Young. 1984
Neil Diamond: the biography
By Laura Jackson. 2004
This portrait of Neil Diamond, his life, his music and his passions are explored from his childhood struggle to get…
out of Brooklyn, through five decades of global stardom, to the present day. This biography provides a definitive insight into one of the most enduring, creative, and prolific singer-songwriters of his generation. 2004.My way: an autobiography
By David Dalton, Paul Anka. 2013
Autobiography of Canadian singer-songwriter whose lengthy career began as a teen idol in the late 1950s. Describes singing through the…
decades to a changing audience and hanging out with and writing hits for other singers, including Frank Sinatra and Buddy Holly. Some strong language. 2013.My memories of Jim Reeves: and other celebrities
By Joyce Gray Jackson. 2009
The story of star-struck Kentucky girl Joyce Gray, who grew up, moved to Nashville where she worked behind-the-scenes on behalf…
of such Music City legends as singer Jim Reeves. This book documents her professional and private lives. 2009.My life with Bing
By Kathryn Crosby. 1983
Kathryn Crosby discusses her first 12 years with her singer-actor husband, Bing, and their children. She describes the joys and…
difficulties of raising a family with the famous star, while she maintained her own acting career. 1983.My life on earth & elsewhere
By R. Murray Schafer. 2012
A memoir by the internationally-acclaimed Canadian composer, music educator and writer R. Murray Schafer, traces the author's life and growth…
as an artist from his earliest memories to the present. Scenes from his youth as an aspiring painter, a music student at the University of Toronto and a sailor on a Great Lakes freighter give way to memories of his several years of work and wandering in Europe, where he gained a deeper understanding of his vocation, and found, especially in Greece, the inspiration for much of the astonishing music he would create after his return to Canada. 2012.My life
By Margaret Crosland, Edith Piaf, Jean Noli. 1990
This autobiography of Edith Piaf offers romantic, and sometimes melodramatic, recollections of the French singer's celebrated, yet tragic, life. Her…
rise from poverty, her philosophical and religious convictions and her legendary generosity are intermingled with scandals of love affairs, drug addiction and alcoholism. 1990. Uniform title: Ma vie.My father's daughter: a memoir
By Jeff Coplon, Tina Sinatra. 2000
A portrait of Frank Sinatra by his youngest daughter, Tina. Focuses on his home life, marriage to teenage sweetheart, Nancy,…
and his loyalty to his three children. Also describes the entertainer's tempestuous marriages to Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow, and his last years with domineering wife Barbara Marx Sinatra. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2000.My story
By Tommy Hunter, Liane Heller. 1985
Country singer Tommy Hunter became known while on the television show "Country Hoedown" in the late 1950s. For the past…
20 years, he has had his own TV show on CBC. 1985.My first forty years
By Plácido Domingo. 1983
My young years
By Artur Rubinstein. 1973
The pianist travels to South America in 1917 and then to New York and the glittering Paris of the 1920s…
and 1930s. He relates behind-the-scenes stories of concert life, tours, and his flight from the Nazis to Hollywood. 1973.Mozart: l'itinéraire libertin (Parenthèse : biographie ; #12)
By Eve Ruggieri. 2006
De Mozart on connaît bien sur l'enfant prodige, l'adolescent rebelle, le génie foudroyé à trente-cinq ans. Mais il en est…
un autre, plus proche de nous, qu'Eve Ruggieri accompagne tout au long d'un itinéraire sentimental et libertin où l'on découvre son insatiable soif d'amour et de plaisirs. Des premiers émois de l'adolescence, des palpitations de Chérubin, aux jeux érotiques chez la Cousinette : d'une folle passion abusée aux conquêtes musiciennes transposées de l'alcôve aux scènes d'opéra, il n'est de note chez Mozart qui ne chante les feux du coeur et des sens. 2006.