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Presents the steps performed in a traditional Passover Seder, plus stories, songs, poetry, and pictures that celebrate the historical significance…
of this holiday to Jews all over the world. Grades 3-6 and older readers. 2004.The music of Canada
By Timothy J McGee. 1985
Describes the many genres of music that have flourished in Canada: art music, folk and popular, church music, and jazz.…
Each chapter begins with a brief summary of the social and political background of the period under discussion, to understand its music in the context of Canadian history. Includes analytical sections for the more advanced reader, and an anthology of thirteen compete works by prominent Canadian composers. c1985.The complete lyrics of Cole Porter
By Robert Kimball, Cole Porter. 1992
For the love of music: invitations to listening
By Michael Steinberg, Larry Rothe. 2006
Articles from the San Francisco Symphony's program books covering various musical subjects. Includes music-appreciation essays such as "How I Fell…
in Love with Music" and "Loving Memories of Movie Music," and examinations of specific composers in "Thinking of Robert Schumann" and "Sibelius and Mahler: What More Could There Be?" 2006.The music teaching artist's bible: becoming a virtuoso educator
By Eric Booth. 2009
Filled with practical advice on the critical issues facing the music teaching artist - from the economic and time-management issues…
of being a musician and teacher to communicating effectively with students. Includes advice on becoming a mentor, succeeding in school environments, partnering with other teaching artists, advocating for music and arts education, and private lessons. 2009.Choral masterworks: a listener's guide
By Michael Steinberg. 2005
Essays based on program notes present musical analysis and background of some fifty works for accompanied chorus arranged alphabetically by…
composer. Discusses Handel's Messiah, Bach's Mass in B Minor, Beethoven's Missa solemnis, and compositions by Haydn, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Berlioz, Rachmaninoff, Vaughan Williams, Stravinsky, Adams, and Wuorinen, among others. 2005. Harmonium -- The passions (Saint John Passion, Saint Matthew Passion); Magnificat; Mass in B minor -- Missa solemnis -- Requiem -- A German requiem; The shorter choral works (Schicksalslied = Song of destiny, Nänie = Lament, Gesang der Parzen = Song of the fates) -- War requiem -- Requiem in C minor -- Canti di prigonia = Songs of captivity -- Stabat Mater -- The dream of Gerontius -- Requiem -- Messiah, Der Messias (arr. Mozart) -- Harmoniemesse (Wind-band mass); Two great oratorios (Die Schöpfung = The creation; Die Jahreszeiten = The seasons) -- Le Roi David = King David -- Glagolitic Mass -- Psalmus hungaricus -- Elias = Elijah -- The shorter choral works; Mass in C minor; Requiem -- Carmina burana -- The bells -- Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln = The Book with seven seals -- When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd -- The wedding; Perséphone; Symphony of Psalms; Mass; Canticum sacrum = Sacred canticle; Requiem canticles -- A child of our time -- A sea symphony; Sancta civitas -- Requiem -- Belshazzar's feast -- Genesis.Before the gold rush: flashbacks to the dawn of the Canadian sound
By Nicholas Jennings. 1997
A generation of musicians, from Vancouver to Halifax, were drawn to Toronto's Yorkville district during the sixties. From among this…
group came some of Canada's most well known musicians, both then and now. 1997.Wunnerful, wunnerful: the autobiography of Lawrence Welk
By Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan. 1971
Memoirs of the popular TV bandleader of German descent who, though born in North Dakota, only learned to speak English…
at the age of 21. There are some amusing stories of his early career when his band was known as "The Hotsy Totsy Boys" and "The Honolulu Fruit Gum Orchestra." 1971.Wondrous strange: the life and art of Glenn Gould
By Kevin Bazzana. 2003
Sheds new light on Gould's family history, his secretive sexual life, and the mysterious problems that afflicted his hands in…
his later years. Contrasts Gould's distinctive traits - his eccentric interpretations, his onstage demeanour, his resistance to convention - against his religious, upper middle-class Canadian childhood, and the influence of his mother and one piano teacher. Describes his concert career, his 1964 decision to perform only for records, radio, television, and film, and Gould's interests away from the piano. 2003.Woody Guthrie: a life
By Joe Klein. 1980
Poignant life story of the folk hero, singer, and song maker, whose father failed as a speculator, and whose mother…
died in an insane asylum. Some of the famous songs he wrote that have become part of American folklore include "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You," "Lonesome Road Blues," "I Ain't Got No Home," and "This Land Is Your Land." Some strong language. 1980.Why Bob Dylan matters
By Richard F Thomas. 2017
Who's sorry now?: Connie Francis Tells Her Own Story
By Connie Francis. 1984
The autobiography of a popular singing star recalls her upbringing in a very strict Italian family, her ill-fated love for…
Bobby Darin and the other tragedies of her life. Some strong language. 1984.Who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls?: the search for the secret of Qumran
By Norman Golb. 1995
A scholarly inquiry into the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the first of which was discovered in the Qumran…
caves in 1947. The author refutes the theory that scribes produced the scrolls in a local Essenean monastery and asserts that the manuscripts were transferred from Jerusalem when the city was under Roman siege. c1995.When giants walked the Earth: a biography of Led Zeppelin
By Mick Wall. 2009
Mick Wall tells the story of the band that wrote the rulebook for on-the-road excess - and eventually paid the…
price for it, with disaster, drug addiction and death. Wall also recounts the life stories of the five individuals that made the dream of Led Zeppelin into reality: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and their infamous manager, Peter Grant. 2009, c2008.When bad things happen to good people
By Harold S Kushner. 1981
What to listen for in Mozart
By Robert Harris. 1991
Harris analyzes some of Mozart's most popular compositions, discussing Mozart's style and innovations, and presenting clues of what to listen…
for. He also includes an annotated list of Mozart's "top fifty" pieces. 1991.We'll meet again
By Robin Cross, Vera Lynn, Jenny De Gex. 1989
Vera Lynn, a British singer during World War II, is best known for her rendition of "The white cliffs of…
Dover". She describes how the war affected every aspect of day-to-day existence in Britain. 1989.Vie et mort dans la Bible (Aux origines du Dieu unique. #3.)
By Jean Soler. 2004
" Jean Soler se penche sur la signification des interdits alimentaires et des rites sacrificiels dans la Bible. Il met…
en évidence l'usage symbolique de la nourriture dans les comportements rituels des Hébreux : interdiction de consommer certaines viandes décrétées impures, jeûnes pouvant aller jusqu'à l'interdiction totale de boire, sacrifices d'animaux : quel sens revêt donc un tel sacrifice pour un Dieu qu'on appelle précisément le " Dieu vivant " ? Le sacrifice du Christ se situe-t-il en continuité ou en rupture avec cette tradition ? Avec ce volume, paru précédemment sous le titre Vie et mort dans la Bible, s'achève la trilogie que Jean Soler a consacrée à une lecture historique serrée des textes bibliques, pour comprendre comment s'est inventé le monothéisme. Il propose ici le volet anthropologique d'une enquête dont L'Invention du monothéisme présentait la dimension métaphysique et La Loi de Moïse celle de la morale. " -- 4e de couv.Verdi: the man and his music (Metropolitan Opera Guild composer series)
By Paul Hume. 1977
Understanding Conservative Judaism (Emet ve'emunah = studies in Conservative Jewish thought ; #2)
By Robert Gordis, Max Gelb. 1978
A rabbi elucidates the ground rules by which Conservatism operates and how it applies its principles to solving communal problems.…
Also considers Jewish survival in general and the future of Conservative Judaism in particular. 1978.