Fiddler To The World

Author : Carol H. Behrman
Publisher : Betterway Books
ISBN 13 : 9781558702387
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fiddler to the World written by Carol H. Behrman and published by Betterway Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life of the talented violinist whose bout with polio left him disabled but still determined to pursue his love of music and the violin.

Author : Mark Slobin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199760626
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fiddler on the Move written by Mark Slobin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Klezmer" is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist-the flutist, fiddler, and bass player that made brides weep and guests dance at weddings throughout Jewish eastern Europe before the culture was destroyed in the Holocaust, silenced under Stalin, and lost out to assimilation in America. Klezmer music is now experiencing a tremendous new spurt of interest worldwide with both Jews and non-Jews recreating this restless volatile, and vibrant musical culture. Firmly centered in the United States, klezmer has paradoxically moved back across the Atlantic as a distinctly "American" music, played throughout central and eastern Europe, as well as in many other parts of the world. Fiddler on the Move places klezmer music squarely within American music studies, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology. Neither a chronology nor a comprehensive survey, the book describes a variety of approaches and perspectives for coming to terms with the highly diverse array of activities found under the klezmer umbrella. Bringing to his subject the insights of an accomplished ethnomusicologist, Slobin addresses such questions as: How does klezmer overlap with, and differ from, the many other contemporary "heritage" musics based on an assumed connection with a group identity and links to a tradition? How do economics, artistic expression, and the evocation of the past interact in motivating klezmer performers and audiences? In what kinds of environment does klezmer flourish? How do stylistic features such as genre, form, and ornamentation help to define the technique, affect, and aesthetic of klezmer? Featuring a music CD with many of the archival and contemporary recordings discussed in the text, this fascinating study will interest scholars, students, musicians, and music lovers

Author : Paulette Jiles
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062966766
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Simon the Fiddler written by Paulette Jiles and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of News of the World and Enemy Women returns to Texas in this atmospheric story, set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of musicians with whom he travels trying to make a living, and the charming young Irish lass who steals his heart. In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Luckily his talent with a fiddle gets him a comparatively easy position in a regimental band. Weeks later, on the eve of the Confederate surrender, Simon and his bandmates are called to play for officers and their families from both sides of the conflict. There the quick-thinking, audacious fiddler can’t help but notice the lovely Doris Mary Dillon, an indentured girl from Ireland, who is governess to a Union colonel’s daughter. After the surrender, Simon and Doris go their separate ways. He will travel around Texas seeking fame and fortune as a musician. She must accompany the colonel’s family to finish her three years of service. But Simon cannot forget the fair Irish maiden, and vows that someday he will find her again. Incandescent in its beauty, told in Paulette Jiles’s trademark spare yet lilting style, Simon the Fiddler is a captivating, bittersweet tale of the chances a devoted man will take, and the lengths he will go to fulfill his heart’s yearning. "Jiles’ sparse but lyrical writing is a joy to read. . . . Lose yourself in this entertaining tale.” — Associated Press

Author : Alisa Solomon
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0805095292
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Wonder of Wonders written by Alisa Solomon and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparkling and eye-opening history of the Broadway musical that changed the world In the half-century since its premiere, Fiddler on the Roof has had an astonishing global impact. Beloved by audiences the world over, performed from rural high schools to grand state theaters, Fiddler is a supremely potent cultural landmark. In a history as captivating as its subject, award-winning drama critic Alisa Solomon traces how and why the story of Tevye the milkman, the creation of the great Yiddish writer Sholem-Aleichem, was reborn as blockbuster entertainment and a cultural touchstone, not only for Jews and not only in America. It is a story of the theater, following Tevye from his humble appearance on the New York Yiddish stage, through his adoption by leftist dramatists as a symbol of oppression, to his Broadway debut in one of the last big book musicals, and his ultimate destination—a major Hollywood picture. Solomon reveals how the show spoke to the deepest conflicts and desires of its time: the fraying of tradition, generational tension, the loss of roots. Audiences everywhere found in Fiddler immediate resonance and a usable past, whether in Warsaw, where it unlocked the taboo subject of Jewish history, or in Tokyo, where the producer asked how Americans could understand a story that is "so Japanese." Rich, entertaining, and original, Wonder of Wonders reveals the surprising and enduring legacy of a show about tradition that itself became a tradition. Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles.

Author : Beverly Lewis
Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 9780764209888
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fiddler, The written by Beverly Lewis and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amelia "Amy" DeVries, a 24-year-old violinist, is disillusioned with life and love after the collapse of her long-running romance. Weary of endless rehearsals and performances, Amy sets out on a road trip through the Pennsylvania mountains. She leaves her cell phone behind so life's demands can't intrude on her solitude. She doesn't know, nor care, where she will end up. When her car breaks down deep in the mountains, Amy realizes the flaw in her "no cell phone" plan. She abandons her car and walks the winding roads, searching for help. Following the smell of woodsmoke and the sound of music, she finds a rustic log cabin. There she meets a young Amishman--and through him a community--that will change her life forever.

Author : Gene Weingarten
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439181607
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Fiddler in the Subway written by Gene Weingarten and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is—in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable. Millions of people know the title piece about violinist Joshua Bell, which originally began as a stunt: What would happen if you put a world-class musician outside a Washington, D.C., subway station to play for spare change? Would anyone even notice? The answer was no. Weingarten’s story went viral, becoming a widely referenced lesson about life lived too quickly. Other classic stories—the one about “The Great Zucchini,” a wildly popular but personally flawed children’s entertainer; the search for the official “Armpit of America”; a profile of the typical American nonvoter—all of them reveal as much about their readers as they do their subjects.

Author : Jocelyn Crane
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400867932
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fiddler Crabs of the World written by Jocelyn Crane and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jocelyn Crane presents a survey of the members of the genus Uca, with special reference to their morphology, social behavior, and evolution. Her account is firmly based on numerous field studies along the world's warmer shores and on comparative work in laboratories and museums. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Barbara Isenberg
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466862521
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Tradition! written by Barbara Isenberg and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it first opened on Broadway in September, 1964, Fiddler on the Roof has constantly been onstage somewhere, including four Broadway revivals, four productions on London's West End and thousands of schools, army bases and countries from Argentina to Japan. Barbara Isenberg interviewed the men and women behind the original production, the film and significant revivals--Harold Prince, Sheldon Harnick, Joseph Stein, Austin Pendleton, Joanna Merlin, Norman Jewison, Topol, Harvey Fierstein and more--to produce a lively, popular chronicle of the making of Fiddler. Published in celebration of Fiddler's 50th anniversary, Tradition! is the book for everyone who loves Fiddler and can sing along with the original cast album.

Author : Mercedes Lackey
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 0671878662
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Fiddler Fair written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running the gamut from her beloved Bardic fantasies to urban fantasy set in the modern world; from science fiction adventure to chilling horror, this is a volume that demonstrates the wide range of this author's talent. It is a feast for the multitudes of Lackey fans everywhere--and for new readers, a powerful introduction to the most significant new fantasy writer of the decade.

Author : Louis Kaufman
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299183831
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Fiddler's Tale written by Louis Kaufman and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion CD contains 13 recordings from 1942-1952.