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.

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.'

Piano Starts Here

Author: Robert Andrew Parker
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
ISBN: 0553533924
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41

Book Description
Regardless of whether they’ve heard of jazz or Art Tatum, young readers will appreciate how Parker uses simple, lyrical storytelling and colorful, energetic ink-and-wash illustrations to show the world as young Art Tatum might have seen it. Tatum came from modest beginnings and was nearly blind, but his passion for the piano and his acute memory for any sound that he heard drove him to become a virtuoso who was revered by both classical and jazz pianists alike. Included in the back matter is a biography and bibliography.

European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Artists Born in Or Before 1865: Illustrations

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description

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)

Music and Modern Art

Author: James Leggio
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135669627
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
Music and Modern Art adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between these two fields of creative endeavor.

The Ranch Girls at Home Again

Author: Margaret Vandercook
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139

Book Description
In 'The Ranch Girls at Home Again' by Margaret Vandercook, readers are transported back to the early 20th century to follow the adventures of a group of young ranch girls as they navigate life on the prairie. The book is a delightful blend of adventure, friendship, and coming-of-age themes, presented in Vandercook's engaging and descriptive writing style that vividly captures the essence of the American West during this time period. The narrative is rich in detail, offering a genuine glimpse into the daily struggles and triumphs of these young girls as they face various challenges and learn valuable life lessons along the way. Margaret Vandercook, known for her captivating storytelling and insightful character development, drew inspiration from her own experiences living in rural America to craft 'The Ranch Girls at Home Again'. Her deep connection to the land and people of the West shines through in her writing, immersing readers in a world filled with authenticity and heart. Vandercook's passion for storytelling and commitment to portraying strong, relatable female characters make this book a standout in the genre. I highly recommend 'The Ranch Girls at Home Again' to readers who enjoy historical fiction, coming-of-age stories, and strong female protagonists. Vandercook's expertly crafted narrative will captivate and inspire readers of all ages, offering a memorable literary journey through the untamed landscapes of the American West.

Men, Women and Pianos

Author: Arthur Loesser
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486171612
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 674

Book Description
A renowned concert pianist traces the instrument's design, manufacture, and music in a delightful "piano's eye-view" of the social history of Western Europe and the United States from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

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.