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1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die
Matthew Rye, ed. Steven Isserlis, preface.
Publisher: Universe.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780789315830.  Daedalus Item Code: 30492
 
From medieval madrigals to living composers like Steve Reich and Philip Glass, the finest classical music of all time is surveyed and discussed in this authoritative and entertaining guide. Sonatas, ... (Read More)
 
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All Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader
Yona Zeldis McDonough, ed.
Publisher: Touchstone.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780684873923.  Daedalus Item Code: 32266
 
No star in any medium has affected the world more deeply or enduringly than Marilyn Monroe, avers Yona Zeldis McDonough. "When she was there—on screen, or in person—it became almost impossible to pay ... (Read More)
 
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Anacaona: The Amazing Adventures of Cuba's First All-Girl Dance Band
Alicia Castro, Ingrid Kummels & Manfred Schafer. Steven T. Murray, trans.
Publisher: Atlantic Books.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781843542421.  Daedalus Item Code: 03464
 
Havana, 1932. To help her bankrupted father Matias Castro support his 13 children, eldest daughter Cuchito decides to start an all-girl orchestra to bring in some cash. Dubbed Anacaona, the group ... (Read More)
 
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Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
Jennifer Homans.
Publisher: Random House.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781400060603.  Daedalus Item Code: 31018
 
(One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2010) A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to 16th-century ... (Read More)
 
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Bobby Darin: A Life
Michael Seth Starr.
Publisher: Taylor.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781589791213.  Daedalus Item Code: 12527
 
Here the biographer of Joey Bishop, Art Carney, and Peter Sellers examines Bobby Darin's too-brief life from his boyhood in the Bronx, where he was born, through his rise as a musical sensation, ... (Read More)
 
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Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American Song
Ted Anthony.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780743278980.  Daedalus Item Code: 23209
 
Heard all around the world in various forms, "House of the Rising Sun" has been recorded by hundreds of artists—Associated Press journalist Ted Anthony has interviewed a number of them himself. But ... (Read More)
 
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The Chronicles of Downton Abbey: A New Era for Family, Friends, Lovers and Staff
Jessica Fellowes & Matthew Sturgis.
Publisher: St. Martin's.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781250027627.  Daedalus Item Code: 29416
 
Naturally following The World of Downton Abbey (item code 29414), this gorgeously illustrated volume is a companion to the third season of the Emmy-winning, utterly addictive series from PBS's ... (Read More)
 
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The Complete Book of Hit Singles: Compiled From the Top 20 Charts from 1954 to the Present Day
Dave McAleer.
Publisher: Carlton.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781847325266.  Daedalus Item Code: 22512
 
For decades, American and British musicians have made chart-topping music in parallel, and many of these hits crossed over the Atlantic. This fascinating chronology of both countries' pop charts ... (Read More)
 
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The Complete Euripides, Volume I: Trojan Women and Other Plays
Peter Burian & Alan Shapiro, eds.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780195388671.  Daedalus Item Code: 20774
 
This first volume of Euripides' known works collects Andromache, a play that challenges the concept of tragic character and transforms expectations of tragic structure; Hecuba, a ... (Read More)
 
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The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey and Passions
Quincy Jones. Maya Angelou, preface. Clint Eastwood, foreword. Bono, intro. Sidney Poitier, afterword.
Publisher: Insight.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781933784670.  Daedalus Item Code: 13529
 
This entertaining, heavily illustrated tribute to the unparalleled career of musician, composer, arranger, and producer Quincy Jones explores his wide-ranging virtuosity and his prolific contribution ... (Read More)
 
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A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument
Jasper Rees.
Publisher: Harper Perennial.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780061626623.  Daedalus Item Code: 31177
 
In the days before his 40th birthday, London journalist Jasper Rees uncovered a French horn that had been gathering dust in the attic for more than two decades and, on a lark, played it at the annual ... (Read More)
 
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Echoes from Calvary: Meditations on Franz Joseph Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ
Richard Young, ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield.   Format: paperback & CDs.
ISBN: 9780742543843.  Daedalus Item Code: 13943
 
In Easter services all over the world today, the seven main movements of Franz Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ are accompanied by spoken meditations on the seven final utterances of ... (Read More)
 
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