Girls at the Piano

Author: Virginia Lloyd
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1760635863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Virginia Lloyd spent much of her childhood and adolescence learning and playing the piano and thought she would make a career as a pianist. When that didn't happen, she spent a long time wondering about those years of study: had they been wasted? What was their purpose? This intriguing memoir explores those questions and investigates the mystery of the author's very musical and deeply unhappy grandmother Alice, and how their lives--both at and away from the piano--intersected and diverged. Girls at the Piano also explores the changing relationship between women and the piano over the course of the instrument's history, taking us from the salons of 18th-century Europe to an amateur jazz workshop in Manhattan in the early 21st century. Funny, tender and fascinating, Girls at the Piano is an elegant and multi-layered meditation on identity, ambition and doubt, and on how learning the piano had a profound effect on two women worlds and generations apart. It is essential reading for music lovers everywhere, and for anyone who has undertaken their own voyage around a piano.

Piano Girl

Author: Robin Meloy Goldsby
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879308827
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
This entertaining memoir provides a glimpse into the comedies, tragedies, and mundane miracles witnessed from the business perspective of a world-traveling lounge musician.

Auguste Renoir Two Girls at the Piano Vintage Art Journal

Author: Epic Love Books
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781724038647
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
A beautiful Auguste Renoir vintage painting on a notebook that features his artwork Two Girls at the Piano. This pretty pastel art journal features impressionist work from the 1800s. The lovely pink back and side cover complete an elegant girl's journal or diary. 6 x 9 book, 100 lined pages.

The Piano Girls

Author: Elizabeth Smither
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995132986
Category : Short stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Three musical sisters honour their mother with a piano recital every year in her memory. They compete with one another, practising in secret to see who can be the best. In other stories, music, food, and restaurants are themes. There is a woman who fends off a seducer by cooking up a storm; Fire Lady prepares flambe dishes in a restaurant. There is a cat called Min; an agonising breakup in a luxury hotel; a young woman obsessed with her breasts. The stories cover a wide range from schooldays and ballet lessons ('The Soul of Kate') to advanced age ('Scottie') where an elderly woman is the pet of a group of rakish young men. The style is engaging, humorous, but invariably compassionate. Introducing Elizabeth Smither as a fellow of The Academy of New Zealand Literature Louise O'Brien writes: 'I read Elizabeth Smither for the optimistic and freeing possibilities in her resistance to closure or conclusion, in character, narrative and, also, in life more broadly. Her stories acknowledge the uncontrollable messiness of life, the ragged edges of a self, the chaos of experience, the many aspects of an individual, and finds melody in the discord. Using multiple narrative perspectives and voices, moving between multiple places and times, her novels and stories accumulate the facets of a life and native without ever suggesting that these can be exhausted.'

Girls at the Piano-Blank Book-Lined 5 1/4 X 8 1/4

Author: Cachet Products
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781561522606
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Piano Girl

Author: Sherri Schoenborn Murray
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511793438
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
She plays from memory. Her memories. The day after her sixteenth birthday, Princess Alia finds out that she's been given away in marriage to a man she's never met. The war has just ended, and for Alia's protection, she must travel to her future kingdom disguised as a chicken farmer's daughter. This princess to pauper story is filled with problems, prayers and plenty of piano. Part one and two are combined in paperback.

Two Young Girls at the Piano (Renoir) Notebook/Journal

Author: Buckskin Creek Journals
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781718850712
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
The front cover of each volume in the Buckskin Creek Fine Art Journals features a magnificent work of art in full color. Inside you'll find 200 pages of high quality paper for writing notes, journaling, doodling, list making, creative writing, school notes, and recording ideas. Set your creativity free with Buckskin Creek Journals and Notebooks. Perfect for personal use, they also make gorgeous gifts. Buckskin Creek Journals - Fine Art Series Volume 13 - Two Young Girls at the Piano by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Museum Masterpieces, Book 2

Author: Catherine Rollin
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 1470625059
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 30

Book Description
In Museum Masterpieces, Book 2, composer Catherine Rollin has created musical expressions of some of the great works of art found in museums throughout the world. The paintings that inspired these pieces are beautifully displayed on a four-page color insert at the center of the book, along with historical notes about each painting. Titles: *Car and Hunting Fox (Umberto Boccioni) *La charmeuse de serpents (The Snake Charmer) (Henri Rousseau) *Cirque (Circus) (Georges Seurat) *The Girl with a Pearl Earring (Johannes Vermeer) *Jeunes filles au piano (Young Girls at the Piano) (Pierre-Auguste Renoir) *Noah's Ark: Genesis (Charles McGee) *Nocturne in Black and Gold---The Falling Rocket (James Abbott McNeill Whistler) *Primavera (Sandro Botticelli) *Sunrise on the Matterhorn (Albert Bierstadt) *Washington Crossing the Delaware (Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze)

The Little Piano Girl

Author: Ann Ingalls
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618959742
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
An illustrated account of the childhood of jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Mary Lou Williams in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in the early twentieth century.

Two Young Girls at Piano - Renoir 1892 Journal

Author: Life Is Art Press
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781543043587
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Young Girls at the Piano (French: Jeunes filles au piano) is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. Use this blank journal to record your thoughts, ideas, lists, dreams or whatever inspires you.