Chicago Counterpoint

Author : Stuart Kells
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640090215
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Library written by Stuart Kells and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Excellent . . . Tracks the history of that greatest of all cultural institutions." —The Washington Post Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve. Some still exist today; some are lost, like those of Herculaneum and Alexandria; some have been sold or dispersed; and some never existed, such as those libraries imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien, Umberto Eco, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others. Ancient libraries, grand baroque libraries, scientific libraries, memorial libraries, personal libraries, clandestine libraries: Stuart Kells tells the stories of their creators, their prizes, their secrets, and their fate. To research this book, Kells traveled around the world with his young family like modern–day “Library Tourists.” Kells discovered that all the world’s libraries are connected in beautiful and complex ways, that in the history of libraries, fascinating patterns are created and repeated over centuries. More important, he learned that stories about libraries are stories about people, containing every possible human drama. The Library is a fascinating and engaging exploration of libraries as places of beauty and wonder. It’s a celebration of books as objects, a celebration of the anthropology and physicality of books and bookish space, and an account of the human side of these hallowed spaces by a leading and passionate bibliophile.

Author : Gina Frangello
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640090045
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Kind of Wanting written by Gina Frangello and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families and their bustling efforts to have a "Community Baby." Miguel could not be more different from his partner Chad, a happy–go–lucky real estate mogul from Chicago's wealthy North Shore. When Chad's sister, Gretchen offers the couple an egg, their search for a surrogate leads them to Miguel's old friend Emily, happily married to an eccentric Irish playwright, Nick, with whom she is raising two boys. Into this web falls Miguel's sister Lina, a former addict and stripper, who begins a passionate affair with Nick while deciphering the mysteries of her past. But every action these couples make has unforeseen consequences. As Lina faces her long–hidden demons, and the fragile friendships between Miguel and Chad and Nick and Emily begin to fray as the baby's birth draws near, a shocking turn of events—and the secret Lina's been hiding—threaten to break them apart forever. By turns funny, dark and sexy, Every Kind of Wanting strips bare the layers of the American family today. Tackling issues such as assimilation, the legacy of secrets, the morality of desire, and ultimately who "owns" love, the characters—across all ethnicities, nationalities, and sexualities—are blisteringly alive.

Author : Mark Clague
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago Counterpoint written by Mark Clague and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Horowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393057171
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Music In America written by Joseph Horowitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scholar and leading authority on American symphonic culture argues that classical music in the United States is peculiarly performance-driven, and he traces a musical trajectory rising to its peak at the close of the 19th century and receding after World War I.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1242 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music News written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Brown
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580461603
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explaining Tonality written by Matthew Brown and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A defense of Schenkerian analysis of tonality in music.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Forecast written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Spitzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226769771
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century written by John Spitzer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs we are familiar with today. But as this book reveals, audiences of that era enjoyed far more diverse musical experiences than this focus would suggest. To hear an orchestra, people were more likely to head to a beer garden, restaurant, or summer resort than to a concert hall. And what they heard weren’t just symphonic works—programs also included opera excerpts and arrangements, instrumental showpieces, comic numbers, and medleys of patriotic tunes. This book brings together musicologists and historians to investigate the many orchestras and programs that developed in nineteenth-century America. In addition to reflecting on the music that orchestras played and the socioeconomic aspects of building and maintaining orchestras, the book considers a wide range of topics, including audiences, entrepreneurs, concert arrangements, tours, and musicians’ unions. The authors also show that the period saw a massive influx of immigrant performers, the increasing ability of orchestras to travel across the nation, and the rising influence of women as listeners, patrons, and players. Painting a rich and detailed picture of nineteenth-century concert life, this collection will greatly broaden our understanding of America’s musical history.

Author : Donna Seaman
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589880218
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writers on the Air written by Donna Seaman and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vibrant interviews from the radio program, Open Books

Author : Abby Geni
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619027496
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lightkeepers written by Abby Geni and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 B&N Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction In The Lightkeepers, we follow Miranda, a nature photographer who travels to the Farallon Islands, an exotic and dangerous archipelago off the coast of California, for a one–year residency capturing the landscape. Her only companions are the scientists studying there, odd and quirky refugees from the mainland living in rustic conditions; they document the fish populations around the island, the bold trio of sharks called the Sisters that hunt the surrounding waters, and the overwhelming bird population who, at times, create the need to wear hard hats as protection from their attacks. Shortly after her arrival, Miranda is assaulted by one of the inhabitants of the islands. A few days later, her assailant is found dead, perhaps the result of an accident. As the novel unfolds, Miranda gives witness to the natural wonders of this special place as she grapples with what has happened to her and deepens her connection (and her suspicions) to her companions, while falling under the thrall of the legends of the place nicknamed ""the Islands of the Dead."" And when more violence occurs, each member of this strange community falls under suspicion.