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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A viscount seeks to unravel the mystery of the Paris Opera House and rescue the woman he loves from the threat of the phantom of the opera." "This love story/thriller relates the tale of the mysterious masked terror who inhabits the cellars of the Paris Opera House
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The chief classical music critic of "The New York Times" explores the concept of greatness in relation to composers, considering elements of biography, influence, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time.
"When he began to listen to the great works of classical music as a child, Anthony Tommasini had many questions. Why did a particular piece move him? How did the music work? Over time, he realized that his passion for this music...
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Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Reckless Daughter tells the story of Mitchell and also of the fertile, exciting musical time of which she was an integral part, one that had a profound effect that can still be felt today on American music and the industry.
"Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl...
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Just before his death, Sanford Friedman completed this, his final novel, something entirely different from anything he, or for that matter anyone, had written before--Conversations with Beethoven, a moving meditation of greatness and pettiness, vulnerability and genius, that is as elegiac as it is witty and engaging.
9) Mozart
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Series
Publisher
Bookwright Press
Pub. Date
1988, c1987
Description
A brief biography of one of music's greatest geniuses.
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Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Discover the untold yet inspiring story of Amy Beach, musician extraordinaire and the first successful woman composer in America. With perfect pitch and fierce persistence, Amy Beach always knew she had to make music. There was just one BIG problem. Her mother believed it was not proper or suitable for a young lady to draw attention to herself, let alone take on a musical career. But give in or give up? Not Amy Beach. She demanded to play the piano....
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Daisy Justine had no idea that she was auditioning for her life. From the moment he heard her sing, Jason Hayes, the reclusive genius and composer, knew he'd found the star he'd been searching for his whole life. Jason tries to persuade Daisy to return to Broadway with him but she has made a promise to another man that she couldn't break. The closer Jason gets to her the closer danger comes. There's more than artistic temperament behind his legendary...
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Few artists of the 20th century are as intriguing as Joni Mitchell. She was a solidly middle-class, buttoned-up bohemian; an anti-feminist who loved men but scorned free love; a female warrior taking on the male music establishment. She was both the party girl with torn stockings and the sensitive poet. She often said she would be criticized for staying the same or changing, so why not take the less boring option? Her earthy, poetic lyrics ( the...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In the early days of the new millennium, pages of a weathered original sonata manuscript--the gift of a Czech immigrant living out her final days in Queens--come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury. To Meta's eye, it appears to be an authentic eighteenth-century work; to her discerning ear, the music rendered there is hauntingly beautiful, clearly the undiscovered composition...
14) Frédéric Chopin
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Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the life and work of the nineteenth-century Polish composer who invented beautiful music for the piano and new ways of playing it.
16) Rainsong
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1984
Description
Her husband was a famous rock singer: his death was a mystery. Now someone was trying to drive her mad.
18) George Handel
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Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The life and achievements of one of the world's greatest composers.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"A frank personal account by the Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter traces the story of her life in and out of the recording studio, from her formative relationships to her collaborations with some of today's leading composers and music artists, "--NoveList.
"For five decades, Carole Bayer Sager has been among the most admired and successful songwriters at work, responsible for her lyrical contributions to some of the most popular songs...
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