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By Claude Gingras. 2017
Dans ce livre unique en son genre, Claude Gingras nous présente plus de 80 rencontres qu'il a faites avec des…
artistes majeurs de notre époque. En effet, avant de se consacrer à la musique classique, il a oeuvré, au début de sa carrière, dans les domaines les plus variés: chanson, ballet, jazz, etc. Ce qui lui a permis de rencontrer, entre autres, Brel, Béjart, Fernandel et Liberace ainsi que Callas, Bernstein, Rubinstein et Tebaldi. Anecdotes savoureuses, traits d'esprit mordants, analyses fines et confessions surprenantes: Auditions est à l'image de son auteur et constitue un témoignage inestimable sur plus d'un demi-siècle de culture. 2017.By William Wright, Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon, Luciano Pavarotti. 1982
Né en Italie en 1935 d'un père boulanger, Pavarotti a grandi dans une famille très unie ou on le considérait…
déjà comme un être spécial. 1982. Titre uniforme: My own story.By Fabienne Verdier. 2005
Étudiante à l'École des beaux-arts de Toulouse, au début des années 1980, l'auteure décide de tout quitter pour nourrir sa…
passion de la calligraphie et la peinture chinoise à la source. Elle passera quelque dix ans dans le Sichuan, à Chongqing, dans une Chine pauvre et autoritaire qui se remet tant bien que mal du règne de Mao. Un portrait sensible et informé de la Chine, un éloge de l'art chinois et de ses derniers maîtres méprisés qui ont survécu aux persécutions de la Révolution culturelle, et surtout le portrait émouvant d'une jeune femme à l'esprit aventureux qui s'embarque dans une aventure artistique et spirituelle qu'elle ne pouvait imaginer au départ. 2005.By Mary Lile Benham. 1977
Biography of an artist who travelled extensively in Canada, recording the grandeur of the land, and the interesting customs and…
lifestyles of the Indians he met. Grades 5-8. c1977. (The Canadians)By Barbara Meadowcroft. 1999
10 women met at a Montreal art school in the early part of the 20th century, and soon decided to…
form a group and function as professional painters. Much like the Group of Seven, with whom the Beaver Hall Hill Group exhibited in the 1920s and '30s, Emily Coonan, Prudence Heward, Mabel Lockerby and the rest of the group worked successfully both in Canada and internationally, though their story has been overlooked by art historians until recently. The author demonstrates how the support the women gave each other was essential to their success in the male-dominated art world, and discusses their paintings in the context of the social and political circumstances of the period. 1999.By Peggy Guggenheim. 1946
By John K Grande, Monique Crépault. 2001
Première biographie consacrée à un sculpteur de réputation internationale et activiste engagé, Armand Vaillancourt. L'auteur retrace les principaux événements qui…
ont ponctué la carrière du légendaire artiste, et reconstitue le contexte de ses principales oeuvres. 2001. Titre uniforme: Playing with fire.By Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon, Maureen Forrester, Marci McDonald. 1989
La cantatrice canadienne Maureen Forrester évoque ici son enfance à Montréal, ses aventures de coulisses, sa vie trépidante autour du…
monde, ses succès et ses mésaventures a l'opéra. Elle raconte aussi son idylle et son mariage avec le violoniste Eugene Kash, sa vie d'épouse et de mère de cinq enfants. 1989. Titre uniforme: Out of character.1980s Los Angeles. Amid rising gang violence, the crack epidemic, and police brutality, a group of unlikely voices cut through…
the chaos: N.W.A. Led by a drug dealer, a glammed-up producer, and a high school kid, N.W.A gave voice to disenfranchised African Americans across the country, and redefined pop culture across the world. The author explores how this group of artists shifted the balance of hip-hop; how their shocking success lead to rivalries between members, record labels, and eventually a war between East Coast and West Coast factions. In the process, hip-hop burst into mainstream America, and became the most dominant musical movement of the last thirty years. 2016.By Benita Eisler. 1991
This dual biography chronicles the 30-year relationship between photographer/gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz and painter Georgia O'Keeffe. Twenty-three years older than…
Georgia, Alfred introduced her into his exclusive New York art circle and acted as her dealer while she often posed as his model. They married in 1924. 1991.By Gerri Hirshey. 1984
The story of soul music through anecdotes and interviews with James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and Mary…
Wilson, among others. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 1984,By Louise Drolet, Don G Campbell. 1998
By Armand Garnet Ruffo. 2014
Norval Morrisseau (1932–2007), Ojibway shaman-artist, drew his first sketches at age six in the sand on the shores of Lake…
Nipigon. By the end of his tumultuous life, the prolific self-taught artist was sought by collectors, imitated by forgers and received the Order of Canada. Ruffo evokes the artist's life from childhood to death, including his breakthrough exhibition at the Pollock Gallery in Toronto; his heartwrenching battle with alcoholism, then Parkinson's disease; and exultant "Shaman's Return" to national status in the Canadian art scene and his solo show at The National Gallery of Canada. Ruffo also draws upon his own Ojibway heritage and experiences to provide insight into Morrisseau’s life and iconography from an Ojibway perspective. 2014.By Roy MacGregor. 2010
The author re-examines the mysteries of Tom Thomson's life, loves and violent death in the definitive non-fiction account. Why does…
a man who died almost a century ago and painted relatively little still have such a grip on our imagination? 2010.By Georges Amsellem. 2014
Georges Amsellem est né au Maroc. En 1968, il immigre à Montréal en passant par Israël et la France. Il…
s'occupe d'écriture et de production de films. Son propre itinéraire le sensibilise à la condition des immigrants, au département des minorités, écartelées entre l'exil et l'espoir. Il poétise, sans nostalgie ni complaisance sur l'espace, le temps et les sables du désert qu'il fait éclater pour ensuite nous en restituer la quintessence. 2014.By David Hepworth. 2016
1971 was defined by the musical arrival of such stars as David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Joni Mitchell.…
The world would hear Don McLean's "American Pie," The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar," The Who's "Baba O'Riley," Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," Rod Stewart's "Maggie May," Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," and more. Hepworth takes us on a tour of the major moments, events, and songs of this remarkable year, showing how musicians came together to form the perfect storm of rock and roll greatness, starting a musical era that would last longer than anyone predicted. 2016.By Lois Wright. 1978
Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie led an unconventional existence in Grey Gardens, a mansion in East Hampton surrounded…
by overgrown gardens and filled with fleas, cats, raccoons, and old rubbish. In 1975, they invited family friend Lois Wright to live with them. Lois' journal offers an intimate look at the daily lives of the Beales, and chronicles the events from Lois's arrival at the house through Edith's death in 1977. 2007, c1978.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.By Alain Gueullette. 1982
By William P Malm. 1977
This comprehensive survey of music and musical instruments found in the major Asian civilizations and in the island cultures of…
the Eastern Hemisphere also provides an introduction to the attitudes and techniques of ethno-musicology. (Prentice-Hall history of music series)