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Ripostes: reflections on Canadian literature
By Philip Marchand. 1998
Revolution in the head: the Beatles' records and the sixties
By Ian MacDonald. 1994
Never was the soaring optimism and drug-inspired introspection of the sixties more perfectly expressed than in the Beatles' music. Ian…
MacDonald discusses 186 recorded Beatles' songs within their historical context, outlining how the group influenced, and were influenced by the spirit of the decade, which, in retrospect, became an ideological battleground. 1994.Rex: a mother, her autistic child, and the music that transformed their lives
By Cathleen Lewis. 2008
How can an 11-year old boy hear a Mozart fantasy for the first time and play it back perfectly, but…
struggle to navigate the familiar surroundings of his own home? Lewis shares the mystery of her son Rex, blind and autistic, and the highs, lows, hopes, dreams, joy, sorrows, and faith she has journeyed through with him. 2008.Richard Tucker: a biography
By James A Drake. 1984
Starting out as a salesman, Rubin Ticker rose rapidly to become famed tenor Richard Tucker. Investigates the family, friendships and…
Jewish faith that played such important roles in the singer's life. 1984.Reminiscing in tempo: a portrait of Duke Ellington
By Stuart Nicholson. 1999
Based on reminiscences from Ellington's family, friends, band members, and business associates, the author traces the musician's childhood in Washington,…
D.C., his performances in the 1920s, and his rise to fame as one of America's finest pianists and band leaders. Also portrays Ellington as a manager and renowned jazz composer. 1999.Red sings from treetops: a year in colors
By Joyce Sidman. 2010
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By Anne Carson. 2013
In an original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from “Autobiography of Red”, now…
called "G," into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age. We join him as he travels with his friend and lover "Sad", and Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures; from a psychiatric clinic to the somber house where G's mother must face her death. c2013.Rebellions, perversities, and main events
By Murray Kempton. 1994
A compendium of articles published over a thirty-year period. Kempton admires defiance, such as that displayed by Lillian Hellman before…
the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He confesses to harboring perverse thoughts about anyone who obtains an interview under false pretenses. And he notes how brief encounters, like sitting on a porch with Martin Luther King, Jr., become life's turning points. 1994.Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
By Azar Nafisi. 2004
In Iran in the late 90's, Azar Nafisi and seven young women - her former students - gathered at her…
house every Thursday to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. Shy and uncomfortable at first, they soon began to open up, not only about the novels they were reading but also their own dreams and disappointments. Their personal stories intertwine with those they are reading. Azar Nafisi also tells her own story. 2004.Raoul Jobin
By Renée Maheu. 1983
Né à Québec en 1906 et mort à Québec en 1974, Raoul Jobin, surnommé "la voix d'or du Québec", le…
"Caruso du Canada", est un des plus grands ténors que l'art lyrique ait connu à notre époque. 1983.Randy Bachman: takin' care of business
By John Einarson, Randy Bachman. 2000
A biography of rock guitarist Randy Bachman, from his early days in Winnipeg, to his years with the Guess Who…
and BTO. A songwriter, producer, guitarist, and session player, Bachman has played an integral role in the evolution and growth of the Canadian music industry. Some strong language. 2000.Randy Bachman's Vinyl tap stories
By Randy Bachman. 2011
Randy Bachman has been writing and recording chart-topping songs his whole life, and since 2005, treating fans to a lifetime…
of stories on his hit CBC Radio show “Randy’s Vinyl Tap”. Even with all his success Randy is “still that kid from Winnipeg,” and his enthusiasm for great music is as strong as ever. 2011.Rag cosmology
By Erin Robinsong. 2017
In this time of ecological precarity, "Rag Cosmology" is an urgent invitation to reinvent our modes of engagement with the…
environment we not only inhabit, but are. Refusing the lamentation that leaves us as resigned witnesses to devastation, "Rag Cosmology" counters fatalist narratives with the pleasures of ecological entanglement and engagement. Tracing relationships between seemingly irreconcilable things--economy and ecology, weather and lust, bills and inner voices, wages of avoidance and wages of listening--these poems offer the intimate and lush language of thought that yearn for an imaginative reinvention of how we understand what we are part of and what we are losing. Winner of the 2017 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QWF). 2017.Raga mala: the autobiography of Ravi Shankar
By Ravi Shankar, George Harrison. 1997
Memoirs of the classical sitar player from India who became popular in the U.S. in the 1960s. Recalls important events…
and people who influenced him or vice versa. Discusses his professional growth and details from his private life, and explains the history and principles of Indian music. 1997.Que la blessure se ferme: poèmes
By Tahar Ben Jelloun. 2012
Puccini: the man and his music (Metropolitan Opera Guild composer series)
By William Weaver. 1977
Probably inevitable
By Matthew Frederick Tierney. 2012
A collection of high-energy poems jolted by the philosophy and science of time. Sailing through the rhythms of a world…
made concrete by Samuel Johnson, before it was undone by Niels Bohr, Tierney uses his wit and legerdemain to grapple with the gap between what's seen and what's experienced. Winner of the 2013 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. c2012.Pourquoi la musique?: son importance dans la vie des enfants (Collection du CHU Sainte-Justine pour les parents)
By Monique Désy-Proulx. 2014
Témoignant d'une riche et profonde réflexion et s'inspirant de recherches scientifiques et d'exemples concrets, ce livre explore les vastes territoires…
que touche l'art musical : capacité à nourrie la vie affective et sociale, dimension esthétique, influences sur la santé et les apprentisages. Livrant également un plaidoyer pour le folklore, l'auteure brosse, en annexe, un portrait de l'école québécoise d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. 2014.Pour faire le portrait d'un poète: hommage du Québec à Prévert
By Jacques Prévert, Normand Baillargeon, Annie Claudine. 2017
"Prévert, depuis le jour où je l'ai rencontré, reste mon écrivain préféré, et son cœur n'a dès lors cessé de…
battre, très fort, en moi. L'aventure de la préparation de ce livre m'a montré mais je n'en ai à vrai dire jamais douté que l'œuvre de Jacques Prévert bat en de très nombreuses poitrines, partout dans le monde et jusqu'ici-même au Québec. Les textes ici réunis racontent la rencontre de leurs signataires avec Prévert et sont en quelque sorte des électrocardiogrammes." Normand Baillargeon. 2017.Pour un nouveau roman
By Alain Robbe-Grillet. 1963
Dans ce manifeste littéraire, l'auteur se prononce pour de nouvelles formes romanesques dégagée du récit réaliste issu de la tradition…
balzacienne. Il met en avant des figures pionnières tels que R. Roussel, S. Beckett, J. Bousquet, qui ont révolutionné les notions de temps, d'espace et de description dans la fiction.